The 75% Solution

As I pass my 48th year in Christ, I am realizing more and more a principle in play. Most churches, I suppose, would refute this, but I am very confident recently that this is true. IF we would follow the Holy Spirit more and take the Bible more seriously and more literally (in places where it should be taken literally--not all places are like that), then I believe firmly that at least 75% of individual problems and church problems would be resolved. We really don't have life answers for people outside the church nor even inside the church. Here is what I mean. The American church says:

Are you sick? Don't come to us for healing as we're not sure God heals. And if we did believe He heals today, we're not sure He is going to heal you. So, I hope you have health insurance and good doctors. Of course in poor countries we realize they don't have health insurance or even the money to go to doctors, even if there were enough doctors close by to go to. So, of course we realize that they have to live by faith.In other words, God has put forth a two-tiered system--one for wealthier countries and one for poor countries.
[See James 5:14-15-"Is any one of you sick? He should call the elders of the church to pray over him and anoint him with oil in the name of the Lord. 15 And the prayer offered in faith will make the sick person well; the Lord will raise him up. If he has sinned, he will be forgiven."(NIV)]

Do you have addictions, emotional problems? Are you soul sick? Well, don't come to us. We don't know what to do. We can only send you to the psychologist, tell you to take your anti-depressants or send you to a recovery group based on humanistic methods and full of dysfunctional people like you, which of course hinders you. We even call these psychologists and recovery groups "Christian" and sprinkle some Scriptures on top to make you believe God really has set them up. In other words, we don't have a clue as to help you.
[See most of what the epistles write, as the apostles write a lot about this area]

Are you a widow or some other person alone who has no relatives to help you? Well don't come to us because we certainly cannot help you as we don't have any money either. In fact,Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world." (NIV)]