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Once upon a time there was a Christian sailboat named church, captained by a god-fearing man the crew called pastor. The main purpose of the crew was to witness the owner’s son, Jesus the Christ, to the world so God’s Holy Spirit could save the lost. The crew was made up of a mixture of people the owner called the body of Christ. The sailboat captain had all of the right intentions to save the lost from their earthly condition by offering eternal life through God’s Son. Then the human condition of selfish-ambition, apathy, religious practice and empty words altered their understanding of God’s spiritual compass and they strayed four degrees off course.

The captain and his assistants, called ministers, try to keep the crew from hell by teaching them many valuable scripture lessons. They teach them to love their God and Savior, one another and to strive to be holy and benevolent. They teach the theory of operating the boat, the different tides, and the dangers of evil storms explained in the book of truth called the Bible.

During their earthly trip they comforted and supported one another, designed fellowship programs, sang praise songs and heard wonderful feel-good messages. The families of God inside the boat were affirmed, but over many years they gradually went off course. They slowly altered the definition of the boat to be the vehicle to bring people to salvation. Focusing on growing the size of the boat, reasoning they were bringing more people to Christ. This was true to a point but the physical boat was not the vessel God commanded disciples to use to bring people to Christ. The boat’s leadership, some knowing, some unknowingly altered God’s compass reading and slowly ventured farther and farther off course. Many became complacent because now they could choose their own way, falsely calling this ‘knowledge’ as they went astray (1 Timothy 6:21-22).

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