It's not just that Jesus almost never used the word Church

I'm more convinced than ever that the Lord of all authority and power and grace and mercy and blessing will not bless the ERC's new New Strategic Plan...

...and the reason is simple.

The ERC's new New Strategic Plan is built on strengthening the health of three entities either rarely spoken of by or completely unknown to Jesus and the early spreaders of the gospel.

1. The church: The word appears 3 times in the Gospels and is absent in 3 of the 4 of them.

And,...
2. Pastors, and
3. Churchly hierarchical leadership, both of which Jesus never envisioned.

But, it's not only what the ERC mountaintoppers make up to follow their own traditions.

While the word, church, appears only three times in the Gospels, I gave up counting the number of times the word KINGDOM appears in the Gospels at 120.

Jesus was absolutely consumed by His desire to teach and preach about the Kingdom. He came announcing the coming of the Kingdom and explaining how a person becomes a subject of it.

It's not only what the hierarchs invent to strengthen their own traditions and paradigm. It's also what they have the audacity to ignore in order to do what they want to do so that they don't have to be about their Lord's business.

And, why!?!?!???!!!!!

We must repent.