When people say “There is No Perfect Church” they are typically trying to justify sin, false doctrine, and corrupt man-made tradition in their own church which is not being addressed like it ought to be addressed.  Such things though must be fixed.  This is not optional.  It is never acceptable for a church not to do all that is in its power to fix these problems.  It would be better for the church to disband and cease existing than for darkness to prevail within it.  

Proverbs 24:27 says: “Prepare thy work without, and make it fit for thyself in the field; and afterwards build thine house.”

When you hear someone say “There is No Perfect Church”, ask them what they mean.  It is likely that if you ask them wise questions, and use good discretion in listening to their answers, that you will find out that they are defending the promotion of evil or the yielding to evil (or both) of the leadership of their church; or that they are among a church’s leadership which is promoting and/or yielding to evil.  

It is not hard to understand why sin, false doctrine, and corrupt man-made traditions prevail in almost every church when you understand that humanistic compromise with darkness is the one thing that most churches have in common.  Often, a key driving force behind this humanistic compromise is the career pastors who see themselves as dependent on, or at least entitled to, the income and status derived from their career.  They regard keeping their church’s membership, and thereby keeping their own position, above truth and righteousness.  They typically are especially prone to bow to those in their congregation who are influential due to their high income, their last name, and/or their status within the church and/or among society for other reasons.  They thus don’t preach the whole counsel of God set forth in the Bible without compromise nor go to the measures which the Bible prescribes in order for truth and righteousness to prevail within their church and among those who make up their church congregation.

Here are some Bible passages relevant to this “There is No Perfect Church” concept which attack and refute the concept. 

Jeremiah 5:20-31: “Declare this in the house of Jacob, and publish it in Judah, saying, Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; which have eyes, and see not; which have ears, and hear not: Fear ye not me? saith the Lord: will ye not tremble at my presence, which have placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though the waves thereof toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?  But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.  Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the Lord our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.  Your iniquities have turned away these things, and your sins have withholden good things from you.  For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.  As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.  They are waxen fat, they shine: yea, they overpass the deeds of the wicked: they judge not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, yet they prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.  Shall I not visit for these things?  saith the Lord: shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?  A wonderful and horrible thing is committed in the land; The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?”

Look at who you’re siding with when you say “there is no perfect church”- in the way that is typically said.  Look at who you’re justifying and what you’re enabling.

1 Timothy 5:21: “I charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the elect angels, that thou observe these things without preferring one before another, doing nothing by partiality.”

My note: This means observing all of the Bible’s instructions which are given for truth and righteousness prevailing among a Christian congregation; and for proper order being kept within.

2 Timothy 2:15-19: “Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.  But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.  And their word will eat as doth a canker (a gangrene): of whom is Hymenaeus and Philetus; Who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already; and overthrow the faith of some.  Nevertheless the foundation of God standeth sure, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his.  And, let every one that nameth the name of Christ depart from iniquity.”

But what if a church’s leadership won’t confront the profane, vain babblings which are known to be believed and spread among their congregation?  Or what if they are perhaps too dull in their discernment to notice and label certain profane, vain babblings for what they are?  That’s not acceptable.  Don’t hide behind the silly “There is No Perfect Church” excuse.

Reading the Risen Jesus’ words to the Seven Churches of Asia is proof in itself that the “There is No Perfect Church” concept is a delusion.  The words spoken in these chapters were said to churches which the Apostles of Christ founded; or which were at least founded by their associates and were by this point being overseen by the Apostle John.  

Ephesians 5:11: “And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them.”

2 Corinthians 6:11-18 (see here the rebuke and exhortation of a faithful Gospel minister to a true Christian church which he founded and oversaw- this is not the mindset of the compromisers who say that there is no perfect church): “O ye Corinthians, our mouth is open unto you, our heart is enlarged.  Ye are not straitened (that is, compressed or restricted in regards to righteousness) in us, but ye are straitened in your own bowels (that is, inward affections).  Now for a recompense (requital) in the same, (I speak as unto my children,) be ye also enlarged.  Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness?  and what communion hath light with darkness?  And what concord hath Christ with Belial (the wicked or worthless one- Satan)?  or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?  And what agreement (or approval or assent) hath the temple of God with idols?  for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.  Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you.  And will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.”

The promise given at the end of that passage won’t be fulfilled in those who cooperate with darkness due to the “There is No Perfect Church” delusion (or for whatever reason) since they don’t meet the conditions for obtaining the promise.

Consider also the numerous ways that people can have fellowship with idolaters in their dark pursuits which might very well be left unchecked in multitudes of churches (and that is not considering that there is blatant idolatry right within the church in the case of many churches).

It is actually even more dangerous to be one who practices and/or one who enables wicked works in and among a congregation which the Lord actually does regard as His own- just as it was most dangerous to do the same at the Temple in Jerusalem when God’s worship was centered there.

Ezekiel 8:18 (right after God had shown Ezekiel the deep, prevalent wickedness taking place within the Temple): “Therefore will I also deal in fury: mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity: and though they cry in mine ears with a loud voice, yet will I not hear them.”

Now going immediately to Ezekiel 9: “He cried also in mine ears with a loud voice, saying, Cause them that have charge over the city to draw near, even every man with his destroying weapon in his hand.  And, behold, six men came from the way of the higher gate, which lieth toward the north, and every man a slaughter weapon in his hand; and one man among them was clothed with linen, with a writer’s inkhorn by his side: and they went in, and stood beside the brazen altar.  And the glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub, whereupon he was, to the threshold of the house.  And he called to the man clothed with linen, which had the writer’s inkhorn by his side; And the Lord said unto him, Go through the midst of the city, through the midst of Jerusalem, and set a mark upon the foreheads of the men that sigh and that cry for all the abominations that be done in the midst thereof.  And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity: Slay utterly old and young, both maids, and little children, and women: but come not near any man upon whom is the mark; and begin at my sanctuary.  Then they began at the ancient men which were before the house.  And he said unto them, Defile the house, and fill the courts with the slain: go ye forth.  And they went forth, and slew in the city.  And it came to pass, while they were slaying them, and I (this is Ezekiel) was left, that I fell upon my face, and cried, and said, Ah Lord God!  wilt thou destroy all the residue of Israel in thy pouring out of thy fury upon Jerusalem?   Then said he unto me, The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, The Lord hath forsaken the earth, and the Lord seeth not.  And as for me also, mine eye shall not spare, neither will I have pity, but I will recompense their way upon their head.  And, behold, the man clothed with linen, which had the inkhorn by his side, reported the matter, saying, I have done as thou hast commanded me.”

That was the First Temple.  It did not end there.  Jesus came to the Second Temple.  Before that happened, but later on in the Old Testament, we read the following.

Malachi 3:1-6: “Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me (speaking of John the Baptist): and the Lord (my note- this is a proof that the Messiah would be God incarnate; and this proof is right from the Old Testament/Tanakh), whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts.  But who may abide the day of his coming?  And who shall stand when he appeareth?  for he is like a refiner’s fire, and like fullers’ soap: And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness.  Then shall the offering of Judah and Jerusalem be pleasant unto the Lord, as in the days of old, and as in former years (my note- this did not happen in the Israelites that rejected Jesus Christ- the Jews who reject Jesus Christ are not the Israel of God).  And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the Lord of hosts (my note- and oh, this much does apply to modern Israel- and they are due for a hefty whooping from the Lord).  For I am the Lord, I change not; therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed.”

And since Jesus is the Lord who changes not, even after He came the first time, reproved Israel forcefully in His public ministry, and cleansed the Temple (at least twice actually- near both the beginning and the end of His public ministry), we also read the following.

1 Peter 4:17-18: “For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?  And if the righteous scarcely be saved, where shall the ungodly and the sinner appear?”  

That’s a rhetorical question obviously.

Don’t be resigned to evil prevailing in any realm of your life.

The “we’re all sinners” and “there is no perfect church” stuff is not going to work when He returns to reign- and to ultimately judge.

Amos 5:18-24: “Woe unto you that desire the day of the Lord!  to what end is it for you?  the day of the Lord is darkness, and not light.  As if a man did flee from a lion, and a bear met him; or went into the house, and leaned his hand on the wall, and a serpent bit him.  Shall not the day of the Lord be darkness, and not light?  even very dark, and no brightness in it?  I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.  Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.  Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.  But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.”

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