True Communion and Fellowship

The whole reason that the church in the US is so impotent today is directly tied to compromise. It is compromised in so many areas it now lacks conviction, anointing, and grace to look anybody in the eye without retreating back to relativism. The creeds of the church are just about the only thing that the church still holds to without equivocation. And these have been defended from a fortified foxhole position in an attempt to show forth doctrinal righteousness without regard to personal righteousness. The two are forever connected. You cannot espouse true doctrine without it affecting every area of your life. The fire of the truth will purge the threshing floor. If you are secretly involved in theft, you will be light on corruption. If you are full of pride, you will condone arrogance. If you are less than honest you will be familiar with smoke, fog, mirrors, conning, spin and manipulation. These things have no part in the church. The church should be a therapeutic community in which those who are laden with compromise can heal and resume productive, positive, proclamation of light and life. It should be a place where you can count on the person you talked to last week to be the same person the next week. Like a family can have no true communication if one of its members is not who they say they are, the church has no true communion if the members are not walking in the light. In this sort of a situation we never see the real person, all we really see is the puppet show that they are putting on. How can true communion or fellowship exist in a situation like this? And if there is no true communion then there is no health. The cells of the body must be connected in reality in order for the healthful benefits of the whole to work to the part.