The Manmade Church – a Prison?

June 24, 2016 by CJ Penn 4 Comments

The manmade church; a building, the establishment,

rules, traditions, obligations, deceptions, false ideas about Christianity.

A prison?

Many are prisoners of a manmade church,

fastened to the church by a heavy chain of lies.

Picture in your mind… the church, the prisoner, and the heavy chain,

shackled to her ankle, holding her fast to the manmade church.

Now here comes Jesus,

with His love, and grace, and forgiveness, and truth.

And with His sword of truth Jesus shatters the chain, and sets the prisoners free.

His truth will set you free!

Author: CJ Penn

First, my writing isn't about me. Don’t want the attention, don’t want to feed my ravenous ego (yep, I’m just a typical pride-plagued human). But I love writing - it gets me out of bed when it's way too dark, just so I can do some writing before heading off to work. I write because I’m passionate about God, Jesus, His Spirit, and His truth. And, I feel the Holy Spirit gets shortchanged in the world we call Christianity. The truth is sometimes lacking too.

4 thoughts on “The Manmade Church – a Prison?”

Spaniardviii
June 24, 2016 at 8:26 am

Do you mean all evangelical churches?

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- C.J. Penn
  June 24, 2016 at 8:50 am
  
  Nope. Just churches that don’t adhere to the truths of Jesus. And an important thing for me to remember is that I’m not the judge as to which churches are “man made.” That’s up to God.
  
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- Spaniardviii
  June 24, 2016 at 9:42 am
  
  Oh OK
  
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Gretiana
June 27, 2016 at 7:34 am

Amen! Religion is an ugly dark spot on Christianity’s beautiful skin.
Down with man-man church.

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