As God and I were talking this morning, He highlighted a very important word of wisdom for me to share. And it’s this: the unhealthy church is a body without the head. But the healthy church has God as its head. The unhealthy church has its own interpretation of Scriptures as its authority, while the healthy church has God as its authority. Of course, a headless church cannot function in the miraculous gifts that reside in the head. That is why they are spiritually blind and deaf.

All the manifestation of the Spirit gifts are in the head. There are speaking gifts (tongues, message of wisdom, message of knowledge), hearing gifts (faith), sight gifts (distinguishing between spirits), or supernatural power that can only come from the head of the church (healing, miraculous powers, interpretation of tongues, and prophecy). It’s interesting to me that the passage of Scripture that contains the manifestation of the Spirit gifts (in 1 Corinthians 12:4-11) repeatedly says that the one and only Spirit distributes them. That Spirit is the Spirit of God who is the head of the church. His name is Jesus.

Let’s briefly recap where we left off in my top ten list of false doctrines in the churches: The FALSE DOCTRINES that we previously discussed are: 1) Mute God; 2) Three Gods; 3) Jesus as a Separate God; and 4) Automatically Forgiven.

Let’s continue my top-ten list of FALSE doctrines in the church.

False Doctrine #5) God Needs Counsel: I’m sorry but that is exactly how the unhealthy church prays as if God needs their counsel. If God needs your counsel or advice (or that of your pastors or elders) how wise is He? If God needs group consensus in prayer (aka 50 prayer intercessors) before He decides to be more loving, merciful, or compassionate, why bother with individual prayers? Ok those are intentionally sarcastically worded questions, but I hope they hit. It should be obvious that God doesn’t need our advice or suggestions. He is infinitely more wise and loving than we individually or collectively could ever be. Our hope in prayer should be to learn from God and want His will above our own. We can’t do that if we’re doing all the talking. Prayer without hearing God is just a spiritual masturbation. You’re only pleasing yourself. (Note: God said to say it that way. Don’t believe me. Ask Him yourself.)

False Doctrine #6) The Holy Spirit is Unable to Anoint: The unhealthy churches like to allow for the service (innate) gifts while mostly denying the existence of the miraculous gifts that require a manifestation of the Spirit. That’s likely because their God is confined to the pages of a book. But the healthy church knows that God is not dead. God’s supernatural power can be delivered to and through whomever He chooses and whenever He chooses without the permission of the body of the church.

False Doctrine #7) Women Must Be Silent and/or Women Are Not Allowed to Lead in the Church: We have too much Scriptural evidence against this false doctrine to not chalk this one up as a significant win for the enemy. The devil has deceived generations of the church into disqualifying God’s anointing on half of the Kingdom simply based on gender. The same one and only Spirit of God anoints women for ministry as anoints men. The unhealthy church demands that women are inferior in the Kingdom. Remember that God is the head of the church, and we (men and women) are the body of the church.

We’ll finish with discussing false doctrines 8, 9, and 10, in the next post.
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