{"id":1376,"date":"2022-12-18T15:14:11","date_gmt":"2022-12-18T15:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/calledtobefree.net\/?page_id=1376"},"modified":"2023-12-18T10:02:02","modified_gmt":"2023-12-18T10:02:02","slug":"modern-day-church-poem","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/calledtobefree.net\/index.php\/modern-day-church-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"Modern Day Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<body>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:18px\">The Modern Day Churches leave much to be desired, <strong><em>certainly in the Heart of God<\/em><\/strong>. <br>Modern Christendom is rapidly growing (Christless Christianity).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:18px\">We are living in the time Now where The Lord says in Scripture \u201cCome out from among them <br>and I Will Be a FATHER To You\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:18px\">You don\u2019t have to take my word for this, you only have to look all around you, to see it\u2019s so true \u2013 <br>a perfect reflection of the Church of Laodicea with it\u2019s Worldliness and spiritual Lethargy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"><strong>Modern Day Church<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:18px\">The Modern Day Church has everything except for LOVE<br>and the Sweet Precious Presence of the DOVE.<br>They have fancy buildings instead of steeples<br>plenty of room to fit the people.<br>Programs and more when you step through the door.<br>Plenty of sermons and music artists<br>but there\u2019s so many things I miss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:18px\">Where I went years ago was like a Family<br>and no domination, it felt so Free.<br>No celebrity preachers and modern day leaches.\u00a0<br>They had their eyes on JESUS<br>who Came to Free us!<br>They set an Example, that\u2019s something missing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:18px\">There\u2019s sweet reminiscing\u00a0<br>when I think of those days, <br>there\u2019s not much that remains.<br>So if you would be in Jesus WISE<br>don\u2019t be given to fads and lies.<br>Look back and forwards, avoid those doors<br>of the Modern Day Church<br>lessons to be learned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:18px\">They don\u2019t set people Free<br>No, bondage is all you see.<br>Enslaved to sin rather than worship Him.<br>They\u2019re after money, no longer hearts Sunny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:18px\">The people are always hungry for more<br>something they don\u2019t find within those doors.<br>But they don\u2019t have a clue what it is<br>a lot their church leaders have missed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\" style=\"font-size:18px\">Hearts that always Worship Him<br>will see the folly and the sin.<br>They will not embrace things that offend<br>but Jesus of Galilee, the Friend of Friends.<br>Those things will always leave you empty inside<br>Live wholly for Jesus and in Him ABIDE.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">\u00a0Janet Vargas\u00a0\u00a9\u00a0 April 2020<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Modern Day Churches leave much to be desired, certainly in the Heart of God. Modern Christendom is rapidly growing (Christless Christianity). We are living in the time Now where The Lord says in Scripture \u201cCome out from among them and I Will Be a FATHER To You\u201d. You don\u2019t have to take my word [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1376","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calledtobefree.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1376"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calledtobefree.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calledtobefree.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calledtobefree.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calledtobefree.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1376"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/calledtobefree.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1484,"href":"https:\/\/calledtobefree.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1376\/revisions\/1484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calledtobefree.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}