In today’s charismatic Christian circles, there seems to be a strange trend of hopping from church to church to serve or “minister” in different places while neglecting to stay planted in one home for very long.
I was burdened with this for our local community today in prayer, but I know it’s a more widespread issue. In fact, years ago I was talking about this idea with the worship pastor at our prior church, Keegan Sidhu, about this particularly in the worship circles. He mentioned it feels like people are trying to build their own individual artists platforms and influence rather than dig in and build the local church.
This is not an issue exclusively plaguing worship leaders and musicians though, it’s many people – I’ve been guilty of it as well. We value opportunities and platforms over faithfulness and ditch digging.
In prayer today The Lord began to speak to me about Gypsies and Rogue Agents in the Body of Christ. Did some research and found some interesting parallels.
🚨Gypsies (or Roma’s) were nomadic in order to survive. They were heavily discriminated against and only hung out in an area until they were run off.
🚨They didn’t submit to any local government but held their own set of rules (hmmmmm).
🚨They didn’t claim any one religion, rather they absorbed for a season whatever was the popular religion of the area (again, hmmmm… sounds like an identity issue, huh? Like many believers who hop around)
Then I looked up the word Rogue, the other word bouncing around in my head:
“an animal of vicious character that has separated from the main herd and leads a solitary life. Ex: a Rogue Elephant”
Know anyone with “vicious” character who has decided it’s easier to do life alone and that planting deep isn’t worth it? That solitary life is more their style ? Same type of people that claim church isn’t necessary or who often quote things like “I love Jesus but not his people”
Another thing Keegan said was that often times people use the “I’m planted in the kingdom” or “I’m more about the Capital C Church” as justification for not truly planting themselves for the long haul or an extended period of time in a local church.