Naked Christians

NAKED CHRISTIANS addresses the entire body of believers but most especially those who are not yet believers but think that they are. In any and all governing and participating roles, theologians, seminary graduates, ministers, leadership in churches, congregants -- each and all bear the burden of their respective salvations; however, so ,too, do they bear the responsibility for leading anyone into apostate beliefs, ways and ungodly practices. The church that strays is in a daze and will be held responsible for its abandonment of sound doctrine and full-Bible beliefs. Some poems in this collection will speak to corruption, deception, manipulation, and gaslighting being practiced within any given church. Anyone caught in a false church has been warned in the word to come out from among them. Yet most sheep will remain within a Laodicean, back-slidden, apostate church. But why? Perhaps most do not know that they are spiritually dead and caught up in a spiritually dead church. If the blind can lead the blind, the spiritually dead are leading the spiritually dead. On a brighter note many of the poems in this collection will speak to Scriptures and topics which will address the souls of all believers. Since the Lord has not spared the church from the pandemic of Covid-19, by allowing it He may use it to purge its ranks. Many churches will close, and justifiably so, but for those which don’t, perhaps from out of them revival will be born. If not, then the church as we know it will never be the same. Will that be bad? Of course not, given that the church returns to Christ. Jesus asked: “…Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?” Luke 18:8) He is returning for a church without spot or wrinkle and do we not believe that those with spots and wrinkles will be left behind? Without repentance, indeed they will! Naked Churches will have to say: “I am spiritually abusing your bride! I am causing your bride to sin. I am misleading your bride. I am gaslighting her. I am selling her to the lowest bidder. I am not washing her in the water of Your word. I am not cleansing her in the blood of the Lamb!” The church is prostituting the bride of Christ. The church needs to repent or the bride must come out from it and seek safe pasture. The onus is on the bride to work out her salvation in fear and trembling (Philippians 2:12), but in a naked church, how can there be a bride? How can the bride come out from among them (2 Cor. 6:17) if there is no bride in them. Naked Christians do not belong to the light. Naked Christians must yet come to the light. If the reader comes to learn that he/she is sitting in a naked church among naked Christians, he/she will have to find a church with a shepherd who is fully clothed in the garment of the Lord. There can be no other way.