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I realized this back in 1994. I spent four years studying and searching for the right church... the church Jesus started. After I had exhausted myself and all resources, I realized that what we have been doing for hundreds of years is nothing like the Early Church...the Church Jesus started. We spend thousands or even millions to build beautiful buildings, so we can sit in comfortable seats and enjoy the show prepared for us for that day. Then we have to give funds each week to keep this business going. This takes large sums of money to pay for the high salaries and the operating expenses... nothing like what Jesus taught about.

I left the institutionalized church 12 years ago. This video is Exactly what God showed me as well! ❤️

I went to a new church today and it was the best kind if weird I can describe. No announcements, just straight to the message. He spoke for an hour and a half, the whole message being rooted in the Gospel and what Christ did for us. At the end, well, he was done speaking, and that was that. I've never been to a church so simple, yet I learned more than I ever have, because it's not about the programs or the entertainment, the church is Christians gathering together to hear the Word

I honestly believe this is the best teaching message on KZfaq to date. I really believe this is where the body of Christ is headed. Those that hear His call, will come out.

I stopped going to church a couple of years ago and grew closer to God. To be frank and honest I felt I began giving God the real me and I seen Him in a greater compacity in my life and others. I personally don't tell anyone what they should do, my only advice is to follow the Holy Spirit. I personally love small bible studys with other believers.

I don't need a concert. I need God's genuine love.

. . . I cried, on floor, in the middle of my kitchen . . . These are convictions I’ve had for years. They emerged shortly after I began intensely studying scripture on my own during my second year in law school. I knew these things in my heart after revisiting the plain language of Acts, as well as Jesus’s example in the Gospels. And without too much intention I just stopped going to churches. The deviation was significant and apparent in every service I tried to participate in, that I was convinced I had a different copy of the Bible than everyone else!! I continued personal study and time with Him, though, until the right way to go about it came about. I just wasn’t ambitious about it. I didn’t actively try to find a congregation close to the Church in Acts, and over time I became complacent. I was in the middle of eating waffles while watching this video - standing up at the counter. After seeing the part when the prophet confronted Jon Macarthar so boldly, I was seized with emotion. Just like the converts in Acts are described before crying out to be saved , I, too, felt “cut to the heart!” I paused the video with what strength I had left, slowly stepped back from the counter, and melted to my knees in remorse. I was grieved to my core for my complacency and cowardice in the face of an all-might God! How could I have been so nonchalantly offensive to Father who’s been nothing but gracious, compassionate, and merciful to me! I felt like tearing my shirt. I just lie there on my face - crying and repenting. I asked the Lord to forgive us all, praying further for the boldness like that given Peter after Pentecost. I don’t ever right comments on videos, ever. I had to on this one, however, so please forgive the length. We CANNOT overlook this one fact - a fact my experience with this video has reminded me of: there is REAL power in His plain truth given to us in scripture. A real transformative, authentic, and mighty kind power. “Then you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” Thank you for freeing me from my complacency and getting me back on track through earnest, heart-wrenching repentance! Praying for us all! #MuchLove

We are the church. Not a building.

I am tired of churchs that do not help me to grow my spirit man but rather I help them grow the number in their bank account.

I’ve been demonized by many of my fellow believers for decrying the modern “church”. Thank you for this; for iron sharpens iron and the Lord gives me strength.

I’m so glad my church got it right. No pastor is above anyone and we have about 4 that rotate in our congregation of 100. We talk about these “systems” and do away with them. Members come up and share their testimonies regularly and people speak when God puts something on their heart. It’s just easy 💜 and spirit filled with biblical truths. And yes you can interrupt when the Lord gives you a word

This is where I am today also. I grew up the son of a preacher. I started on this journey out of the reilgious system 25 years ago, when I hit rock bottom while "leading" a "church." The "church" had no answers, no one walked with me, and I was on my own. That is when I ran into, what I call, the brick wall of Jesus Christ. I learned then He is the only answer and began the journey of what you laid out in this video. Thank you for laying it out so well. I actually really got a glimpse of my journey when i was 12 years old. I remember going down to my dads study and asking him if I could talk. He said sure. I told him, " Dad you preach REALLY good lessons on what not to do. But how do I NOT do them." He didn't have an answer for me. Looking back, the only thing he knew was how to reinforce his denominational beliefs each Sunday. He had no real answers. I think that is the point with the bigger religious system as a whole and why "Christianity" lost the culture war in this country. The religious system didn't have any real answers. Oh, they would tell you come to church and it will all be better. Oh they might help you suffer through the crisis you were in at the time, but they never answered the core questions or problems.

I am 79 years old and you have spoken every thought I have had for many years about a gathering together as the Lord would have it be. So few speak out and "see" what you have voiced so well. Thank you so much. Those that are open will hear the truth of which you speak.

the church is the people, not the building....

I’m totally with you on that!! I thought I was the only one. I’m trying to find a group of believers who want to congregate in the name of the Lord in my home or someone home. Church is not a business, it’s the body of Christ

I am getting ready to start my third home church. Pray for me.

I am an athiest. Where I live we have so many little churches where CLEARLY no one is making out big. These little churches and the people who work/volunteer are barley bringing in enough to stay afloat. I respect these churches and the people who are a part of them. They give so much to the community first and to themselves last. Mad respect if you are a member of a small church like this.

"For where two or three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them." Matthew 18v20

Church is a performance. Home church is the direction we need to go.

The problem with deception is that people don't know they are being deceived

I found myself becoming frustrated attending church (Pentecostal Christian church), as more and more money was being asked for, thousands and thousands per month. I never got to speak, I never got to hear anyone's story or revelations or learn from anyone other than the main speaker, just this format you speak of. I think meeting in a park and tithing for the poor, sharing what we learn, having gatherings guided by the Holy Spirit, etc, makes far more sense than meeting in an expensive building and tithing for updated lights, etc. It's what I've been desiring for so long. I am looking for 'my church' :(

Most churches have fallen to vanity. Don't let them make you fall. Christ is the way, not a building.

This wretched me. I’ve been talking to my mother lately about the custom to leave right after the service and the unfamiliarity you can face in your own church. I remember reading the descriptions about the early Christians in acts and thinking “Wow, this is NOT how church is today.” Please pray for me. I’m from Germany and I’d love to be in a spirit filled home congregation.

When I was a young girl we had a wonderful church. Anyone who had a word spoke it, anyone who had a song we sang it, we were a very small group who met in homes and eventually an old, run down building. And we were blessed. Nothing forced or faked. I felt God's presence with that group that I haven't felt since in any congregation I have visited. I graduated high school and left for a couple of years. When I returned it had become programmed and felt wrong. The elders (my grandmother and 2 others) had died or were too sick and younger(my father and the elders' children) more structured types had taken over. I haven't been to church service regularly since but I desire that old, first way. I fear it was so rare that I'll never find it again. Thanks for this video. It helps me feel better about "abandoning" the ritual and being disloyal to the remaining members.

You don't have to go to the school of theological teachings in order to learn n teach what the Bible says. God will give you all you need to learn n know. Gather together to worship, praise, and fellowship. WE ARE THE CHURCH! BE THE CHURCH!!

I heard in my spirit some years ago My people love entertainment more than they love me, I have become a social club to them.

This is absolutely profound and I can identify with this video on all points. My eyes have been opened to so many things others are blind to. I thought I was imagining or overthinking. One day in prayer the Lord spoke to my heart on the very things you are speaking about. Our job is to get out into the world, the street corners and reach out to people. The laborers are all indoors in cool air conditioned buildings while the harvest suffers. Thank you for this video.

THANK YOU! The church system is not what Yeshua had in mind. That's why I do bible study, where everyone gets to contribute and bring up a topic, instead of one or two people lecturing hundreds on what they believe.

I grew up in a Baptist Church, that denied an unsaved neighbor coming in the doors with us because she was wearing jeans!! She was lost and had that impression of the Lord. I got away from the Baptist nightmare, thankfully, and now just have a personal relationship with Jesus and don't attend church anymore. All anyone needs is to open your Bible to find the truth, not sit and listen to someone else's doctrine. I let Jesus teach me, not man!

Thank you brother, I thought I was alone. This was so refreshing. God bless you and the work you are doing.

“I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you. Nevertheless, in church I would rather speak five words with my mind in order to instruct others, than ten thousand words in a tongue.” -Paul the Apostle I don’t think the gifts of the Spirit have ceased, but you shouldn’t worry one bit if you don’t have the gift of tongues or prophecy. Those aren’t the only two.

I am looking for a church to fellowship with. I have lost all my “church” friends when I quite going to church. I met with a couple of them and explained my concerns about the “church”, and they quit speaking to me. They felt I was drifting away and following a false god. Even when I presented biblically sound scripture confirming my concerns, and how our “church” was not biblically sound. I feel very alone at times, as I cannot find anyone who, not just, reads the Bible, but lives the Bible. Even friends I have had for years are slowly diminishing from my life.

The Bible says in the last days, that God's spirit will move across the land, I have seen a growing change where many true born again believers, are being called out of church. The church system is corrupt, and has been turned over to the occult.

My husband always calls it a performance and you get.a.program when you enter and then pick your seat and wait for the show to begin

It is not church that is changing so much in America it is its commitment and practice to preach a true Biblical gospel !

Having a personal and intimate relationship with God thru Christ. Meeting together where and when ever with others is the church. People.

I was wondering why God pulled me out of church and now am getting closer with him thanks for this now I no what's going on amazing how God works thank you .

thank you for making this video! I'm in 9th grade so i go to the youth group and I have seen the youth group go from strong Christians to strong worldly people and it makes me sick to my stomach to watch it so i have been looking for other youth who want to go deeper and I have Found 3 or 4 so we are trying to bring it back because 3 years ago we were a strong youth group and i want to see it become that again to if it's God's will it will be done.

“So when they had appointed elders in every church, and prayed with fasting, they commended them to the Lord in whom they had believed.” ‭‭Acts‬ ‭14:23‬ ‭

Thank you for this beautifully done video. This is exactly how I feel. I am searching the scriptures as you speak. God speed and shalom.

Ten years ago God spoke so clear to me " come out from among her" i thought he was meaning the world..then he began to open my eyes in the " church" to the " program" that man conceived for those who want to sleep. I was awake. Now husband and i are part of a home group be it a few people but the line of separation is so clear , those who want to sleep come there and leave , those whose heart is after Christ , the spirit feeds , they grow connected to Him, not to a program

I've been a Christian most of my 65 years here on earth. Convinced I was called even from my mother's womb... He knew me then, before I took my first breath. Yet, He did not show up in me until my early teen years. Still, I resisted that call, but bowed the knee to fully giving my life back to Him when I was in my twenties. I was a worship leader for much of my early years. Then traveled and taught in the church system for many more years. But little by little and because God gave me a Berean heart to search the scriptures I did so. And it challenged me deeply on so many levels that I finally left the church system years and years ago. With great difficulty, it has been hard to find similar hearts to come together more perfectly as Paul and the early church prescribed. And alas, even with those I have gathered with in the past twenty years, distance has made it difficult to meet with them. I loved everything you said in this video. My heart was beating simultaneos to your in perfect rhythm. I want for this so much. But because of some little fame God has permitted me to have, it is almost impossible for me to experience this grace the way it has been prescribed in your video and the Bible. I am both an Christian and somewhat known as a Christian teacher. I retired from my own company five years ago, and now live all but alone in a valley far from city life. But a few of the saints have found me and want me to come to Africa to share my gifts with them. Oh, how I wish they understood that this wasn't God's way! That is was far simpler, to meet and share our livelihood, our gifts to one another and encourage one another in the Lord. Everything has changed me. The season of seeming fame, turned into a great desert of troubles that left me wounded, but still very much alive in Christ. But I can't do things the way I used to. It isn't about me anymore, it is all about My Savior! I so loved your heart brother! It was great refreshment to me. For now, all I can do is pray! But I do thank God that I am meeting even if it is through email, telephone, or skyping, with saints who are on this page and enjoying Christianity minus all the attractions that man is throwing into the ring. You blessed me thoroughly! May these messages get out to the saints who are longing to be the SPIRITUAL TEMPLE we are called to be. Thanks again for posting this! Stephen.

My mind was just blown! I have been searching to the meaning of my spiritual loneliness. I feel better now.........

Sign on the front lawn, "Come as you are... and stay the same when you leave."

I started preaching on the streets ,.. follow Jesus only ,.Glory to the Lord

This is exactly how I felt. For years I been wanting to start a home church / Bible study the way it was meant ..

Yes, the “performance model” with stage and audience has always felt off to me. For introverts like me, home church is comforting because too many people are overwhelming but more importantly home church is biblical. When I visited my brother and his family most mornings we would all pray, read the Bible and share what was laid on our hearts from that passage and worship the Lord in spirit and truth. So much more edifying than feeling anonymous in a sea of people listening to a message and remaining quiet then, leaving with a sense of loneliness. “Church” can be a lonely and that’s wrong. Thank you for this video❤

What I abhor more than anything about many “Christians” is their desire to look for flaws in other Christians rather than do what they were called to do...reach the lost! God didn’t give us a recipe. He didn’t say you couldn’t meet in buildings. He didn’t say there should be certain lighting, etc. He simply said preach the gospel. If your problem is with offerings then don’t give but also don’t go! I’m NOT saying, if you don’t give you can’t go! I’m saying if you can give but don’t because you have a problem with the church, then you shouldn’t go. You shouldn’t receive anything the church has to offer. If you think they are heretics don’t ask them to pray for you, visit you, help with bills, preach your funeral, officiate your weddings. Etc! The church as a whole gives more money than governments! It is the most philanthropic entity in the world. You can’t do that without money. Look at the very first church, they didn’t just receive “some” of the people’s money, the received “all” of their money AND possessions. So... 🤷🏻‍♂️ our church is only about 200 strong and we have given out at least 100k in 8 years! Helping homeless, single moms, kids getting school clothes, we’ve even bought folks cars so they could get a job and provide for their families.

You nailed it, thank you I thought something was wrong with me. This is a confirmation to my spirit!

I too left my Church 6 months ago for the very same reasons. I felt as if God lifted the veil from my eye's to see the true things that were taking place there. So I study on my own and read and search for wonderful teaching like yours to keep me inspired in the truth of our Lord and Savior. To much selling and money tranfering going on , and not enough word of Gods Truth.

Thank you. God has been pointing all this out to me for a while now. Pastors bring in the flock on Sunday, feed them a wee bit of milk and send them home. They NEVER eat solid food.

Who else is watching this at the end of 2019 & saying.....”Amen, yep!” 🤨🧐🤨🤔😥😲🤭😬😧

Each Sunday, the church attempts to put on “The Greatest Show On Earth”

This is the Church and its Goal. Many will be deceived in the end times. I am having many struggles standing alone on God's word. It is not a popular stance. Please Pray for me Saints and I will pray for You. Thank you Brothers and Sisters in Christ!!

Thank you Brother, I praise God for your boldness about TRUTH. May our Lord continue to use you.

So I've been having a few people over for home worship on Sunday morning and it is off the charts!! I've never in my life had such wonderful worship. So today my wife and I went back to ridiculous. Sunday church meeting downtown and I hate to say it but it wasn't good. It wasnt good at all. Cold, structured, no fellowship, communion was in some covid proof container that I couldnt even get the bread out of. The whole thing seemed rediculous but I just wanted to experience what I've been hearing from others. I can't wait to worship again with others IN MY HOME.

I used to like going to church. You've just describe every reason why I dont go anymore...but I tell you this...i always find an opportunity to tell others of the love of Christ...praise The Lord God in Jesus name Amen!

I wish I could find a house congregation to worship with. Our churches either speak error or are hung up on feeding us milk over and over with no meat.

I agree with this video. However I have to ask myself what am I doing as the church for our hurting world. In used to sit and criticize everything I disagreed with but that was not productive. Engage yourself in the work of the Lord and all these little things will become insignificant.

I wish other Christians in my area wanted to meet in a home environment, but they all just want a show or someone to spoon feed them the bible. They don't want to be held accountable or contribute spirtually. So frustrating...

The "church" has become like a "casino", come in, listen to loud music, COLLECT THE MONEY, and it goes "who knows where", I can't do that ANYMORE!!

God don’t dwell in houses made by man’s hands God dwells in houses made by his hands behold you are that house peace be with you come Lord Jesus🍷🍞

When i was in the church that i am attending since i was youth, i told to our pastor that the church today is run like a company. And they kick me out in the church.

What is the music in the background of this video?

Sadly. The Church seems a need to entertain in order for peoples' return.

so I'm not the only one who sees this. SMALLhouse groups, unpaid leaders without a vested interest. REAL bible study open discussion sharing of your Faith in every day life oh how I want this in my life. west midlands U.K. HELP

So then the question for me is how do I get involved with one of these proper family meetings so that I may have communion with the true family of God in the correct fashion this is what I want a group of people whom are connected together teaching each other and loving one another just as a healthy family would

There was a “Church” building by me that had an actual marquee like a movie theatre. That is what “ worship” has come down to today. Entertainment. The sacred has disappeared from most these modern nondenominational churches and and most modern Protestant churches. It is about feeling good and entertainment. The ego needs it’s feel goods. God forbid that you should have to look at yourself and see anything wrong with yourself....everyone needs a star! Pathetic!!!! Actually had a relative tell me he has the best church because the band is the best and all his church needs is a coffee shop and then it would be perfect! Sad commentary on what the average person things Church is suppose to be. Thank you Joel Osteen for the flim flam job you’ve done on the ignorant!

This guy is right on , it is very hard to find a place in any church because of all the formats and politics . I play music once in a while at church,s and I see many people today making a great deal of money doing a music ministry , I will never charge a dime for any music I do in church . I have come to the place where I think the church is being controlled by the devil through the love of money. If you are being payed by a church for doing music or teaching and you feel good about it your are being fooled by the devil, it all should be a donation .

This is so true 💔❗️I would love to have a family that studies daily. So lonely by self...

I had a dream just the other week that I was in a room with about 15-20 people. I read a scripture and expounded, the next person did the same and so on. The excitement kept building as each person spoke. After about the 4th person, in the dream, I said to myself, "We are about to have a revival!" I praise God, Jesus the Christ, for this video. Pretty much everything everyone is doing in the name of Jesus, do the opposite. Run, don't walk. Run the other way. Scripture is sufficient.

even before I wondered why church singers stood in front of the people instead of standing on the side for GOD to be at the center.

The church is where there are 2-3 or more people gathered speaking gods word . The church are the people

Come out from among them and be ye separate saith theLORD.

Have been out of the system for 30years with my family. Church in our home around our table. Many outside of our family have also attended our fellowship. It works.

I left the established church many years ago after my pastor husband was very violent, had an affair, stole from the people, stole from my mother and hit my daughter around the face so hard it left imprints on her face... then left me to marry another woman .... and when this was made known to the church over seers... Covered him and threw my daughter and I to the wolves... Except we survived and grew up in our faith...both of us are going on great... I will never go back to church as we know it! That same denomination allowed another minister to have an affair with a new convert, then threw her out but covered him... Then allowed another man in bible college to have an affair told to chose who he wanted ..divorced his wife left his 2 kids and was given a church with his new wife together as pastors... No one ever challenged this none sense... I am told to forgive and let go of this... I have forgiven but I can't ignore the evil that goes on hidden from view... As a pastors wife I went to a leaders wives convention..50 of us from 50 different church denomination s... I have never got over the fact that everyone of us were beaten wives..and no church leadership did anything about it... Then the sexual abuse tolerated ..Covered up in the name of Jesus... Evil places of pervertion... I am still feared by those who believe I made it all up... But knowing their hearts it's ALL true... So this video is only the top of the huge dysfunction of what western church has become.

My people perish for lack of knowledge🍷🍞

I have fallen away from "Churchianity" for some time now. It has bothered me because church members (people I knew while attending church) tell me "we are not suppose to do it alone" that is why there are church buildings to attend. How does a building to gather in represent fellowship? Just to be greeted upon entering and told to have a good day when leaving is not my understanding of fellowshipping. And yes a message is preached for 45 min. but it is never about sins, hell, or anything that might alienate a member because they may take offense because they are living in sin. No wouldn't want to preach the truth because if someone is offended then they may loose their tithing from them, which tithing that church's do is not scriptural in the KJV. Yes it is lonely going it alone but at least I am not offending God by attending some church that man has set up under deception and finding out too late that the god you are worshipping is actually the adversary himself.

I could agree with a bit of what you’re saying here and in some of your other videos, but there’s too much room being given in a strange time to equip people with more fortified information to misinterpret the truth that they don’t want any part of anyway. There’s no greater message than that of the empty tomb. Let’s encourage each other to speak of it, in part or whole, that there will be no excuses later.

I recently told a fellow believer that I've stayed away from Catholic or Protestant institutions and have gotten back to the basic and true principles of the Bible and let this individual know how much more fulfilling and real it is, only to have this person storm off - in total disgust.

I was talking to lady one day and the topic of mega churches came up. I expressed that I don't like mega churches for many reasons. But, my two main reasons were because I don't feel the pastors have a closeness with their members as they should, and, it seems at that point, it is more of a performance/show instead of actually saving souls. Needless to say, she got upset, pretty much defending them and saying that they show the "number of people being saved." And if I disagreed with her, I was a lost soul...I disagree but I don't consider myself a lost soul. I just don't see the point in a huge church with cameras, and on TV. It feels very rehearsed and misleading. My opinion.

Totally agree ... We who have this longing of a True believers congregation/assembly /fellowship, are scattered across the globe ! The Holy Spirit has brought us together via KZfaq channel like yours, brother in Christ, to encourage us to stand firm in our faith in Christ Jesus Who is our Blessed Hope ! Thank you for collecting articles and valuable information, and compiling them to share on KZfaq ...you are a channel of God's blessings unto His Beloved children 😄

Hi Servus Christi, could you please let me know what are the groups which practice service as described in 1 Co 14? I know of the brethren, who else? Thanks

The manner in which protestants have church is not the way the apostles and early Christians worshipped.

You are helping me wake up. I cried a little at this because I am fell for the system even though I felt something off about it. I must be true to God.

The Bottom line: Unless your BORN AGAIN OF SPIRIT, you have NO WAY into the Kingdom of Heaven! In these days, good luck finding a Bible Teaching, Spirit Filled Congregation. As a Patrol man years ago I did the LORD's Work, & paid the price for it. My Church was in the Street, & it still is, that is where ever the Spirit leads me. Allow me to Recite a Poem by Mr. Ray Stevens from the 80's: 'Would Jesus wear a Rolex on his Television Show?' Woke up this morning, turned on my TV set. There in living color was something I can't forget. This man was preaching at me, yeah laying on the charm, Askin' me for 20. with 10,000. on his arm. He wore designer clothing and a big smile on his face, Selling me salvation while they sang 'Amazing Grace' Asking me for money when he had all the signs of wealth. I almost wrote a check out, but then I asked myself. Would he wear a pinkie ring? Would he drive a fancy car? Would his wife wear furs and diamonds? Would his dressing room have a star? If he came back tomorrow, there's something I'd like to know. Can you tell me, would Jesus wear a Rolex on his Television show? Would Jesus be Political if he came back to Earth? Have his home in Palm Springs and try to hide his worth? Take money from those poor folks when he comes back again? And admit He's talked to all those preachers who say they've be talking to him? God Bless Everyone, & walk by Faith not by Sight.

Fellow viewers and believers in the Lord Jesus, Joshua has done a great service to the body of Christ in America by making this video. You not can do a great service by sharing it. Simply copy and paste the link to this video on your Instagram, Facebook, etc. Other great places to post a link to this video is on the pages of local churches in your area. These churches almost all have facebook pages, simply post a link to this video in the comment section. You will learn by how quickly some of them will remove it if they are trying to be true to God's Word, or if they are Bereans who will search the scriptures to see if these things are so. There would have never been a reformation if others didn't spread Luthers writings. There will never be another if we don't do the same.

Hey how to know if you really have the Holy spirit or just a counterfeit spirit?

The reason why there is so much confusion is because most professing christians don't understand what 2 Tim 2:15 "KJV "15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.", and so many people put their trust in a pastor then studying the bible for themselves.

This is literally one of the best videos i've ever seen. Powerful message brother. Thank God for your faithfulness.

I met a Christian in the park and he told me he was the head pastor at Alpine church....So i asked what he thought about ISAIAH 53 + several other MAJOR Bible texts .....He knew of none of them , but assured me if he had his NIV Bible he could Rember.....He then urged me to go to his church repeatedly....I declined saying the people at your church would only know what you are teaching them.. HE QUICKLY AGREED ......and i left it there [ he affirmed my point ]

Where is the full video you made for this topic?

People sat under Paul and a pastor is overseer and that is biblical True the church has become a show, but to throw out the church completely is also not biblically accurate. You still can gather in whatever building fits your gathering. With a pastor and a worship team. We should never idolize, but we can revere and follow christ like men. Paul said imitate as I imitate christ. Find a good small church and serve christ.

There were times when I went to church, I felt it was just a show, and not real. I might say, Pretentious. I am nobody of course, it just didn't seem real.

Others and I have been teaching the same thing you presented for 40 years. The congregations are not large but love the Lord and remain faithful to his word. People get swept up in the mega church nonsense and do not know the word but enjoy the "show". Hopefully, folks will wake-up and leave congregations that only allow "professionals" to minister to the congregation. God bless all who follow Christ and operate as the Scriptures teach.

But what does it matter? The important thing is that in every way, whether from false motives or true, Christ is preached. And because of this I rejoice. Yes, and I will continue to rejoice,

Jesus said "Go forth and make disciples and teach them all I have commanded you..." - nowadays people are so happy to fellowship with each other (Christians in church) and forgets about the lost world out there...Jesus did not say stay in the church/synagogue and wait for the unbelievers to come in...NO He said go OUT into the world...!!! Why have Christians become so blind?

we are living in the Last church age, Laodicea

In my church the gospel of SALVATION is preached: Jesus Christ❤ the LORD, Who is the greatest joy for all christians.