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I'm done. With the plastic smiles

I'm done. With Christians who walk into church like they are walking into a Country Club

I'm done. With Christians pretending they are perfect

I'm done. With churches saying "that's the way we've always done it"

I'm done. With Christians who say healing services in these modern days are fake.

I'm done. With Christians who avoid fasting

I'm done. With people who sit in church waiting for the pastor to "bless" them

I'm done. With those who think pre-schoolers are too small to learn about Jesus

I'm done. With Christians who mock saints that cast out demons in the name of Jesus

I'm done. With Christians who complain about their church but have never given a dime to God's kingdom

I'm done. With people who stand and cheer at football games on Friday nights but walk into church like they are at a funeral

I'm done. With Christians who can sing Madonna's latest hit but can't recite the 10 commandments

I'm done. With Christian fathers who push their sons to play football, but have never taught them to read the bible

I'm done. With Christians who go into deep debt to "keep up with the Jones'" who sit next to them in Sunday School.

I'm done. With fake "Christian-ese" on men's lips

I'm done. With deacons who complain about an unsaved teenager wearing a ball cap into the sanctuary

I'm done. With Sunday morning being the most segregated hour of the week.

I'm done. With Christians who think they are better because their skin is white

I'm done. With Christians who think organs are holy and drums are not.

I'm done. With Christians who say "I'm fine" when really their marriage is in shambles

I'm done. With people who think their past should be a secret, lest they be judged by the church

I'm done. With churches who think worship is for Sunday morning

I'm done. With Christians who don't believe in supernatural healing

I'm done. With Christians who don't believe in the unseen warfare all around us

I'm done. With Christians who believe miracles only happened in the bible

I'm done. With Christians who call on God like He's a cosmic genie in a bottle

I'm done. With Christians who think somehow they have attained all they have

I'm done. With this "little religion box" that some Christians have put Jesus into

I'm done. With the limits that most churches put on God's power

I'm truly done. no more limits. no more boundaries. no more plastic people. no more playing church. I'm done. Jesus did not die so His people could play church and be comfortable.

How long will we "play church" while there are lost souls to win, hungry orphans to feed, hurting widows to love, lonely hearts to mend, and broken
lives to heal?

There is no limit to God's power displayed through His people if we could just stop playing church and start being the church!

Rise UP and Start Being The Church

PLACEBO exerpt

Chapter 12: Wake Up!

I now repeat for you point by point the entire five point message that
God gave me to deliver to this world today.

Point Number 1: For those who call themselves Christians, this is the Laodicean Church Age in which
we live. A high majority of so-called Christians are, in fact, living a deceived life. They talk
Jesus and play church, but do not live it. They claim to be Christians and then live
like the devil. They have bought the great lie from Satan who tells them that they are alright. He
tells them that it is alright to go to church on Sunday and attend mid-week services but as far as
the rest of the time is concerned, they are to get all they can out of life. As far as their
Christian life is concerned, they believe they are comfortable and have need of nothing and as a
result, they are only lukewarm Christians if Christians at all.

Point Number 2: Satan is a personal devil.

Point Number 3: To the whole world, this is Noah's second day. As it was in the days of Noah, so
shall it be in the days of the coming of the son of man. Humans took no thought of what Noah was
saying
nor did humans believe that anything was about to change. Humanity could see the storm clouds over
the horizon, but yet did not believe the rain was imminent. Notice the close parallel today.
Humanity can see all the signs of the last days, yet humanity does not believe that anything will
change. He does not believe in the impending coming of our Lord and he does not prepare to meet
God."

Point Number 4: For those who claim to be Christians, they are supposed to be ambassadors for
Christ here on earth. One cannot have any true witness or power in his life unless that one lives
his Christian faith at all times, twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. To be a true
Christian one must live it, not just talk it. To honor God with your lips and not your heart is not
acceptable. Those who accept the responsibility of teaching, preaching, or any leadership role have
much for which to answer.

Point Number 5: God is now in the process of recruiting an army with which God will shake this old
world one more time. By working through his soldiers, God will produce great miracles that will shake the established hierarchy of
the so-called organized religion that is in this world today. These soldiers that God is now
recruiting will demonstrate the power of God to a greater extent than did the disciples in the
Pentecostal age. Now the recruitment has begun in earnest because God is about to perform the great
miracles through his army that God promised us God would do in the Bible. John the Baptist brought
the spirit of Elijah into this world and he did not even know he had it. John denied it, but Jesus
confessed that it was so. The purpose of that spirit was to make straight the paths of the coming
of the Lord.

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"The Alpha and Omega, the Cause of all the universe's existence was hurting because a mere Earth
child was hurting. Oh, what Love! What Understanding! It was so far beyond anything a mere
Earthling can understand. Oh how precious just one, little, insignificant Earth child is to that
Great God" – Howard Pittman
You can get the rest of the excerpt here http://spiritlessons.com/dreams_and_visions/placebo_howard_pittman.htm