5: The Church Trimester 2: The Functionality of the Church - part three



The Lion Is In The Way



From our last discussion: “The Church Trimester 2: Implementing the Way – part two,” we explored how it wasn’t easy for The Way to reach all of us Christians.  In fact, it took almost 400 years of bloody persecution before we, around the world, could receive God’s plan, The Way, for the course our lives to follow. 

God’s plan was to create a global ecclesia—a worldwide community of Christians joined together at the heart of Jesus Christ.  But when the “first batch” of Pentecostal disciples became “comfortable” in Jerusalem, it ignited an almost 400 year (A.D. 54 – A.D. 313) inextinguishable fire that would by no means surreptitiously spread the gospel.

And this question was asked:
So is it still not understood that persecutions, in varying degrees and forms, will strike us until we move back to The Way, and recognize and hear His Voice, thereby properly function in accordance to His pattern for success identifying with Christ as we fill our world with our testimonies validating the gospel, The Way, of Jesus?

Our focus in this discussion is on THE FUNCTIONALITY OF THE CHURCH’S VITAL ORGANS.  The end of the 2nd Trimester is marked by the assessment of how well the developed heart, lungs, kidney and brain are functioning.  The Church’s vital organs, metaphorically, can be described as its doctrine—teaching or instruction (heart); its five-fold ministry (lungs); its ordinances of Baptism and Lord’s Supper (kidney); and its Stages of Sanctification (brain).

In Chapter 3 of THE LION IS IN THE WAY!: A Message to the Naked Church, Rev. Anyamesem describes to us the third revelation of the oracle: What I realized was that Christianity today has become a mere form—the Church has grown similar to a Galatians 5:19-21 and Revelation 3:14-18 type, and has not produced the fruit in Galatians 5:22-23.  Most people go to church, sing beautiful worship songs, say nice words, but our hearts are not circumcised. The Holy Spirit described today’s church members in the picture of Ezekiel 34:17-21 (p.20).

 THE LION IS IN THE WAY!: A Message to the Naked Church contains the third revelation of the oracle which describes the members of the church who trample upon the good pastures and muddy clear water as those who hear God’s Word and do not apply it to their lives for a change. Their hearts are not circumcised.  The heart’s function is to sustain the life of the Body; but in Christ, our uncircumcised heart could be the very organ which slowly destroys the Church Ecclesia.  We are taught and instructed in all things Christian.  Yet there is an obstruction to our doing what we hear.

In Chapter Three, Rev. Anyamesem addresses the “the flock” who are muddying the waters and trampling upon good pastures as a detriment to the weaker members; and these deliberate actions also discourage non-believers from even wanting to come to Christ.  He vividly describes how these waters are muddied and pastures are trampled.  Then the warning that Judgment is coming soon to those whose hearts have hardened is to wake up the Church to repentance and to reflect the image of Christ.  At the end of this chapter, the question asked is Do you know that you come from a peculiar family, the royal priesthood of the Kingdom?

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It would be most helpful to journey with me, Rev. Anyamesem, if you had a brand new copy of my book entitled THE LION IS IN THE WAY!: A Message to the Naked Church.  To place your order, please contact Patience Osei-Anyamesem on Facebook or email at godspatience@yahoo.com or jesuspatience@gmail.com.

Also, I would like to answer any questions you have about the Church or about what is happening in your personal lives.  Contact me on 233-(0)548412661.

Rev. Peter Osei Akwasi Anyamesem.



ABOUT THE AUTHOR OF THE LION IS IN THE WAY

Rev. Peter Osei Akwasi Anyamesem is a seasoned minister of Assemblies of God, Ghana; and is currently, the Head Pastor of Assemblies of God, Ghana—Philadelphia Assembly in the Ashanti Region.  He is also the Founder and Proprietor of Global Village Christian Academy Int’l School, a private Christian school dedicated to academic excellence and the winning and keeping of the souls of children and teens for Christ Jesus.  He was born on April 16, 1956 in Achinakrom, Ejisu—Ashanti Region in Ghana, West Africa.  The Lord has blessed him with a dynamic wife, Mrs. Perpetual Osei-Anyamesem, by whose assistance, he has reached his current level in his career and in his personal life.  In 1979, at the latter part of October, he confessed Christ as his personal Saviour and Lord according to John 3:1-5.  Rev. Anyamesem’s educational background includes current Masters Degree studies in Educational Psychology; Diploma in Theology from the Mid-Ghana Bible College—Assemblies of God School; Ghana Institute of Languages, Kumasi, English Proficiency Level; and graduate of Faith School of Evangelism.

ABOUT THE BOOK

The Lion Is In The Way is an oracle for today’s congregations and tomorrow’s generations.  It is a revelation about the attitude prevailing in our contemporary churches.  This revelation is concerned with the behaviour of complacency among His Church leaders; and how Jesus grieves about how His Church has gone wayward.  This book reveals to all readers, especially to the born-again who are walking in the narrow way to heaven, the warning about the consequences of backsliding.  His appearance is to correct the errors of those going wayward and bring them back to The Perfect Way in order to avoid His wrath before His second coming.  He is coming soon!



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