17/06/2026
TEACHING: 3 WHAT CHURCH AM I FOLLOWING? JESUS CHRIST CHURCH OR THE WORLD'S CHURCH.
Thesis that exposed social media slander, against the Church unbiblical.
God blessed day to you all. I greet you all in The Name above all other names in The Name of Jesus Christ. I hope and pray that you all are well.
Thank you for engaging with me on this matter and for recognizing the seriousness of the subject we are studying and teaching. This is a sensitive issue, yet it aligns fully with the Word of God. What we are witnessing today is unfolding before our very own eyes. The distinction between the true Church and a false expression of church in some places. That is why we must examine ourselves by God’s Word. We must ask in all honestly: Which church am I part of? Which voice am I following?
I believe the Holy Spirit has illuminated the weight of Martin Luther’s Theses and every matter connected to this situation. Just as the Spirit moved my friend to write his theses. Then in similar response to slander, attacks on social media, in today's time as with Martin Luther in his time, as per our previous teaching.
I said we will use God's Word to brake it open. Eccl 3:1 _“there is a time for every matter.” Let The Word of God declare, The Word of God.
Let's apply Acts: 15; to today's event.
Church, watch the order God allowed. It matches Acts 15 exactly:
Theses were written first.
My friend did not react in anger. By the Holy Spirit’s leading, he first wrote his theses. Just as Luther wrote 95 Theses before the controversy exploded, so my friend put truth on paper first. Proverbs 15:28 _“The heart of the righteous ponders how to answer.”_ He pondered, he wrote, he submitted it to Biblical order.
The test came through a silent post.
Then came the test to prove the theses. His proof was simple and without words: he posted a mock wedding on social media. No words. No caption. No provocation. No slander. Just the image. James 1:3 _“the testing of your faith produces steadfastness.”_
The attack came and proved the theses to be true.
That silent post attracted the very attacks his theses had already described. Voices with no ordination, no council, no accountability responded exactly as his theses predicted. The attack itself became the evidence. Luke 6:45 _“out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.”_ The theses were written first. The test came. The attack came. And the attack proved the theses. Remember the subject of the theses. Trauma when people get hurt in Church. This teaching is decerment of which Church am I following? The Church of Christ or of the world?
See, Council was convened - Acts 15 order.
Following Acts 15:2, my friend did not answer on or responded on social media. He did not go live. He went to council. He went to the apostles and elders appointed by the Holy Spirit. Acts 20:28. The council convened. The matter was heard. The accusers were invited but did not appear. Note there was a Counsil, covering, accountability, responsibility.
The Counsel ruling - 30-0 VINDICATION.
Then came the ruling. As Acts 15:25 says _“it seemed good to us, having come to one accord,”_ so this council ruled 30-0 in his favor. A matter of record. Documented proceedings. Not by man’s opinion, but by Scripture, witness, and one accord under the Holy Spirit.
Now Jesus Christ hand picked His Disciples - His Council Himself. My friend had to appear before the council due to slander and attacks in public from attackers who used social media. The council ruled 30-0 in favour of my friend as his accusers didn’t show up. And it was found that neither of the attackers and many who jumped on the bandwagon belonged to any council or even a covering Body, and one of them had no theology training some others " Pastors" self proclaimed was never ordained. No accountability.”
Church, let’s break this open with Jesus’ Word. Because this is not about my friend. This is about Jesus’ order protecting His Body when wolves come.
WHY COUNCIL'S MATTERS.
Lets look at 3 more Jesus’ reasons, proven by Scripture. I almost want to say more today than ever before. But God always knows what He is doing.
BECAUSE JESUS HAND-PICKED HIS COUNCIL - ORDER OVER CHAOS.
Mark 3:13-14 _“Jesus went up on a mountainside and called to him those he wanted, and they came to him. He appointed twelve that they might be with him and that he might send them out to preach.”_
Let's Break it open:
1.Jesus chose - John 15:16 _“You did not choose me, but I chose you.”_ Ministry starts with Christ’s selection, not man’s ambition.
2.Jesus trained - Luke 6:40 _“The student is not above the teacher.”_ 3 years before they ever preached alone.
3.Jesus sent with council - Mark 6:7 _“two by two.”_ Never alone.
How does it apply to today: When someone attacks the Church publicly on social media with no training, no ordination, no council, no accountability... that’s not a reformer. That’s Korah - Num 16:3 _“You have gone too far! The whole community is holy.”_ Korah had no calling, no council, no covering. Result? The ground opened up.
Jesus Christ’ council had 3 marks: Chosen by Christ, Trained by Christ, Sent with Christ. If a voice has none of those 3, why should the Body listen? 1 John 4:1 _“test the spirits.”_
WHY? BECAUSE COUNCIL IS JESUS’ COURT OF ACCOUNTABILITY WHEN SLANDER COMES.
Matt 18:15-17 Jesus’ order: _“If your brother sins... tell it to the church.”_ The Greek word _ekklēsia = called-out assembly, elders.
Let's look deeper:
1.Accusation came publicly - Social media is today’s “marketplace.” 1 Tim 5:19 _“Do not entertain an accusation against an elder unless it is brought by two or three witnesses.”_
2.Council convened - Acts 15:6 _“apostles and elders met.”_ Not Twitter. Not YouTube. Biblical council.
3.Accusers didn’t show. - Prov 18:17 _“The first to present his case seems right, till another comes forward and questions him.”_ When accusers refuse council, Scripture calls that slander - Ex 20:16 _“You shall not give false testimony.”_
4.Ruling was 30-0 - Acts 15:25 _“it seemed good to us, having come to one accord.”_ Unity doesn’t mean no conflict. Unity means council judges by Scripture, not by noise.
See social media judges in 30 seconds. Jesus’ council judges in 30 days with Scripture, witnesses, and prayer. Which one protects the Body better? Psalm 133:1 _“How good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity!”_
BECAUSE COUNCIL EXPOSES VOICES
JESUS NEVER SENT.
Jer 23:21 _“I did not send these prophets, yet they have run with their message; I did not speak to them, yet they have prophesied.”_
Let's look at the following 3 points the counsil found.
1.No council = No accountability. Prov 18:1 _“isolates himself.”_ Wolves hate walls.
2.No ordination = No testing. 1 Tim 3:10 _“let them be tested first.”_ You don’t put an untested man over sheep. Will you put your children in a vehicle with a driver with no licence?
3.No training = No foundation. 2 Tim 2:15 _“Study to show yourself approved, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.”_
Same principle. Give a child a fi****ms, with live rounds in the chamber, other words a loaded gun, someone is going to get hurt.
No this is not elitism. This is Jesus’ protection order.
Moses was trained 40 years before leading. Paul sat under Gamaliel + 3 years in Arabia before ministry - Gal 1:17-18. Even Jesus submitted to John for baptism before public ministry.
Council's doesn’t exist to keep men out. Council's exists to keep error out. When attackers have no council, no ordination, no training, council asks: “Who sent you?” If Jesus didn’t send them, the Body doesn’t have to follow them - John 10:5 _“strangers they will not follow.”_
Here is the Bible foundation: The Blueprint.
THE COUNCIL REPRESENTS THE WHOLE BODY.
Acts 15:22. _“Then it seemed good to the apostles and the elders, with the whole church, to choose men from among them...”_
→ The decision of the Jerusalem Council was not just Peter + James. It was “apostles + elders + whole Church”. The council carried the whole Body.
Acts 15:2. _“And after Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and debate with them, they decided that Paul and Barnabas and some others of them should go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders about this question.”_
→ Difficult matters go to the council. Because the council carries the wisdom of the whole Body.
THE SPIRIT SPEAKS THROUGH THE COUNCIL.
Acts 15:28. _“For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us...”_
→ Key verse! The council doesn’t just speak as people. They say: “The Holy Spirit + us”. When the Body gathers in unity under the Word, the Spirit speaks through the council.
Matt 18:20. _“For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.”_
→ Jesus promises His presence in the gathering of His people. A Church council that meets in His Name has Christ in the midst.
THE COUNCIL IS UNDER-SHEPHERDS UNDER THE CHIEF SHEPHERD JESUS THE CHRIST.
1 Peter 5:1-2 _“The elders who are among you, I exhort... Shepherd the flock of God that is among you”_
→ Elders/Council are “under-shepherds”. They don’t represent themselves. They represent Christ, The Chief Shepherd, before the flock.
Heb 13:17. _“Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account”_
→ Why? Because they stand before God on behalf of the Body. They carry responsibility for the whole body.
James 3:1
_My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation_ .
UNITY OF THE BODY THROUGH THE COUNCIL.
1 Cor 12:12 _“For just as the body is one and has many members... so it is with Christ.”_
→ The council is like the brain + heart of the body. Not more important than the hand or foot. But needed to move the whole body in one direction.
Eph 4:16 _“...from whom the whole body, joined and held together by every joint with which it is equipped, when each part is working properly, makes the body grow...”_
→ A healthy council helps that “each separate part” of the Body grows and works together.
_“Brothers and sisters, we are not sitting here as individuals. We are sitting here as representatives of the Body of Christ, Just as the Jerusalem council said: ‘It seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us’ - so we discern today under the Word, in His presence, for the welfare of the whole Body.”_
No Church in the Bible ever stood alone. God designed His people to belong - to Him, to each other, and to the wider Body with accountable leadership.
Here’s why, straight from Scripture:
CHRIST ONLY HAS ONE BODY, NOT 40,000 SOLO BODIES.
Eph 4:4-5. _“There is one body and one Spirit... one Lord, one faith, one baptism”_
1 Cor 12:27. _“Now you are the body of Christ and individually members of it.”_
Jesus didn’t plant “independent churches”. He planted _members of His one Body_. A local church that refuses to belong to a council/the wider Body is like a hand that cuts itself off and says “I’m fine alone”. A hand without a body dies. A church without the Body loses covering, wisdom, and correction.
PROTECTION + ACCOUNTABILITY = BIBLICAL PATTERN.
Heb 13:17 _“Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they are keeping watch over your souls, as those who will have to give an account.”_
Who do they give account to? Not just God. They give account to the wider Body/elders too. That’s why Paul told Titus:
Tit 1:5 _“This is why I left you in Crete, so that you might put what remained into order, and appoint elders in every town as I directed you.”_
Every local Church had elders + connection to apostles/council. No “lone ranger” churches. Why? Because wolves come, doctrine drifts, and leaders fall. The council is God’s safety net.
WISDOM IS IN THE MULTITUDE OF COUNSELLORS.
Spr 11:14 _“Where there is no guidance, a people falls, but in an abundance of counsellors there is safety.”_
Hand 15:2 _“...they decided that Paul and Barnabas and some others... should go up to Jerusalem to the apostles and elders about this question.”_
When doctrine + marriage + discipline issues hit, the Jerusalem Council shows the pattern: Local Church doesn’t solve alone. They take it to the wider Body. The council carries more wisdom, history, and discernment than one pastor ever can.
UNITY IS JESUS’ LAST PRAYER.
Joh 17:21. _“...that they may all be one, just as you, Father, are in me, and I in you, that they also may be in us, so that the world may believe that you have sent me.”_
The world doesn’t believe when 100 churches in one town all compete. The world believes when the Body shows visible unity. Belonging to a council makes that unity real, not just a slogan.
GIFTS + RESOURCES ARE SHARED THROUGH THE BODY.
Rom 12:4-5 _“For as in one body we have many members... so we, though many, are one body in Christ, and individually members one of another.”_
2 Kor 8:13-14 _“...your abundance at the present time should supply their need...”_
Church A has teachers. Church B has mercy-gifts. Church C has finances. Alone they struggle. Together in a council/Body, the gifts flow. That’s how God designed it.
A Church doesn’t belong to a council to lose freedom. It belongs to keep Christ, keep truth, and keep unity.
Solo church = high risk, low covering.
Church in the Body/council = accountable, protected, resourced, biblical.
Jesus is the Head. The council is the neck that keeps the local body connected to the Head and to the rest of the Body. Cut the neck, and the body dies.
BEREAN SEARCH: TEST THE VOICE, NOT JUST THE NOISE.
Before you share, like, or defend any online attack against any Church or Pastor, do this first. Acts 17:11 test:
Ask Jesus 3 questions:
1._“Lord, does this voice have council?”_ Jesus sent disciples two by two.
2._“Lord, was this voice tested and ordained?”_ 1 Tim 3:10 _“tested first.”_
3._“Lord, did this voice go to the elders first, or straight to social media?”_ Matt 18:15 _“go to him privately first.”_
If the answer is “no” to those 3, then Proverbs 26:20 applies: _“Without wood a fire goes out; without gossip a quarrel dies down.”_ Don’t add wood to a fire Jesus didn’t start.
“So we see WHY council matters. Jesus hand-picked His council. Jesus used His council in Acts 15. Jesus protects His Body through council when slander comes.
In future teachings we will break open HOW a Biblical council works when doctrine is questioned, when money is handled, when restoration is needed. Because we are going to look at Jehu, Jezebel, Baal worship, Jehu’s season only makes sense when the Church understands Jesus’ order for governance..."
Until next time if God permits me, but;
WANT TO LEAVE 3 QUESTIONS FOR EVERY BELIEVER.
We’ve broken open Acts 15 together. We’ve seen Jesus’ order. Now the Holy Spirit is asking each of us a personal question, not to condemn, but to protect:
QUESTION 1: DOES MY CHURCH HAVE A COUNCIL/ELDERS + IS IT PART OF THE BODY OF CHRIST?
Heb 13:7 _“Remember your leaders, those who spoke to you the word of God.”_
Church, you who is reading here ask 3 things with love, not fear:
1. Who are our elders? Not just titles. Who shepherds me, visits me, corrects me? Leads me? 1 Pet 5:2.
2. Who does our pastor submit to? Which 2-3 godly men can say “no” to him biblically? Spr 27:17.
3. Are we connected? Do we pray with, learn from, and serve with other Christ-centered churches? Or are we an island? Ef 4:16.
If the answer is YES to all 3 → Praise God! Stand firm, support them, pray for them Heb 13:17. You are part of the Body Jesus is building.
If the answer is NO or “I don’t know” → Don’t panic. Don’t gossip. Don’t leave in anger.
QUESTION 2: WHAT DO I DO IF MY CHURCH HAS NO COUNCIL/ELDERS YET?
Hand 14:23. _“And when they had appointed elders for them in every church, with prayer and fasting...”_
If we don’t have it yet, we do 3 things:
1. PRAY IT IN - Every Sunday: “Jesus Head of the Church, send us undershepherds. Raise elders from among us. Connect us to Your Body.” Acts 6:6.
2. BECOME IT - Grow in maturity yourself. Tit 2:2-7. Elders come from faithful members. Be the kind of man/woman an elder should be.
3. STAY OPEN - When God brings tested, ordained, humble pastors who fear Him more than fame, welcome them. Don’t fear council. Fear being alone without the Head.
A church without elders is a baby. Babies need parents. Pray for parents.
QUESTION 3: WHAT DO I DO IF MY CHURCH REFUSES THE BODY OF CHRIST?
Op 18:4 _“Come out of her, my people, lest you take part in her sins.”_
Matt 16:18 _“I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.”_
Family, listen carefully:
If your Church preaches Christ, loves saints, and is just immature without council yet → STAY. Nurture it. Help raise elders. Be patient 1 Kor 13:7.
But if your Church rejects Christ as Head, rejects Scripture, rejects all accountability, defends sin → Then with tears, not pride, obey Jesus and come out. Not to start a fight. To follow the Head. Find the Body fast Joh 10:27. _“My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.”_
Your safety is not in a building’s name. Your safety is in belonging to the Body, under the Head, with undershepherds who will give account for your soul.
So test every voice - including mine - by Acts 17:11. Go home, open your Bible, and ask: “Jesus, is this Your order? Show me Your Body.”
Next time we gather: We’ll break open HOW a Biblical council works practically. What happens when money is questioned? When doctrine drifts? When a brother falls? Because Jehu’s season only makes sense when the Church knows Jesus’ order for governance.
Until then: Stay in the Word. Stay in prayer. Stay in the Body of Christ.
Let's pray: Abba, Father, we stand before You in the Name of Jesus Christ. We are not alone, we are members of one Body, and You are our Head. Lord Jesus The Christ, put Your hand back on the throne of Your Church.
Remove every voice, system, or pride that pushed You aside. Be preeminent in our pulpit, our homes, our hearts.
Holy Spirit, breathe discernment on us now.
Remove scales from our eyes like You did for Paul. Teach us to tell the difference between Your true Body and empty religion. Let “it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us” be our standard too. Father, for our pastors and elders:
You said the devil strikes the shepherd first, so we ask for covering.
Send them faithful brothers, men who pray with them, correct them in love, and stand with them like Aaron and Hur. Let no shepherd carry the burden alone. Let no shepherd fall alone. For Churches Your Houses Father without elders or council yet, We pray over them. Raise elders from within them, men and women full of Spirit and wisdom. Connect them to other Christ-centered Churches. Don’t let us live as islands. Keep them safe until covering comes. For every believer who is confused, hurt, or unsure. Jesus, Great Physician, heal them. If You say “stay,” give us grace to serve and build.
If You say “come out,” take us by the hand and lead us to Your Body.
Don’t let pain make us bitter. Make us better, and make us belong. Lord, silence every mouth that speaks against Your Bride without being sent by You. Forgive them, but stop the slander. Let only those You choose, train, and send, shepherd to Your sheep. Unite Your Body in our city, Abba, Father. Break competition, break isolation, break pride. Make us one Body with many gifts, sharing wisdom and resources for Your glory. Make us Bereans, Lord.
Before we share, before we judge, before we follow, let us search the Scriptures daily. Teach us to ask. “Who sent you? Who covers you? Who corrects you?” Chief Shepherd Jesus The Christ, we submit to You first. Then to Your Word. Then to Your order of elders and council.
Not for control, but for covering. Not for power, but for protection. Seal this word in us until we meet again.
Reattach every hand that was cut off. Bring every lone-ranger home to the Body. We ask all this in the mighty Name. Name above all other names in The Name of Jesus Christ, Amen and Amen.
God bless you all until we speak again.
Love and respect
Past JJ
Shalom.