Two Camps.

 The confessing church has aligned itself into two camps.  This division has created a wall that impacts Christ's church in a profoundly negative way.  The challenge Believers face is to embrace both the justice and eschatological mandates of the Gospel; it isn't either/or, it's both/and.

The irony is that the same end, compassion for people who Jesus described as “sheep without a shepherd,” drives both camps, yet we (all of us) proclaim a different gospel when we fail to apply the whole counsel of God to our mission.  

We have allowed this blindness to strip the church of its relevance on the one hand, and spiritual power on the other--leaving only a shell for those "asking, seeking, and knocking" to behold. 

The good news is that God isn't marginalized by our failure to embrace the whole Gospel. His love continues to find a way. If only we who have confessed Christ as Lord and Savior, and embraced effective faith could come together, then face the harsh reality that WE are the problem.  

Would that we might seek God's face, confess our sin, then healing would come.  That's the promise of 2 Chronicles 7.14... 

"...If MY people who are CALLED by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their (our) wicked ways, I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sins and restore their land." 

May His will be done on earth as it is in heaven; through Christ, let it be.

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