This is my letter to church folk and the church in general as well as others. There will be some of you who read this and think wow what a butt hole he is, there will be some of you who think these are thoughts I have had myself. There will also be some of you who read this and think I’ve never come across that and I know he can’t be talking to me. Lastly there will probably be some of you who applaud this note as well as those who hate it but truthfully, I am not doing this for any of the possibly mentioned groups. I am doing it because it’s in me to do and I feel very strongly that it needs to be done because I am just sick and tired of what I see going on but most of all I am just sick and tired of being sick and tired.
I am sick and tired of the hypocritical church. The church that says on one hand they want Christ and the more there of but don’t have the balls to do what it takes to be a true follower of Christ. They won’t go out into the streets and win the lost, they won’t love their fellow church member let alone their neighbor. I’m sick and tired of hearing the garbage spewed from pulpits Sunday after Sunday of all this happiness and God told us to take the city and no one doing anything to truly take it. I am sick and tired of people going hungry and the Church not willing to come together to feed them. Small churches complain they have no money and resources while big churches complain they don’t have time when if they just partnered up feeding and clothing could be done. I am sick and tired of seeing other religions like Scientology and Catholicism (yes I count Catholicism as an alternate religion deal with it) hoarding all the money of people to build their outstanding untouchable cathedrals draped in lavishness and opulence while churches who look to truly promote Christ and Kingdom work struggle to raise $100 to pay bills let alone do effective outreach. I’m sick and tired of Pastors and church leaders with the me mentality. A mentality that says if I can’t profit from it or it doesn’t build my church I’m not supporting it. I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired.
I’m sick and tired of everyone being a Reverend, a Pastor, an Apostle, a Prophet but no church nor integrity that allows them to walk worthy of the call for which they are called. Reverends just walking around screaming call me Rev, Pastors who don’t teach with transparency and truth, Apostles and Bishops who can’t run their own church houses let alone be trusted to oversee many, Evangelist who wouldn’t know what true evangelism is if there was a book on it (oh wait there is), and prophets HA! We have prophets who couldn’t prophesy their way out of a paper bag to save their life and wouldn’t know the true voice of God from Jerry Springer let alone speak with the boldness it takes to cast out demons of religion and division. Got the devil screaming, “Paul I know, Jesus I know, but who the hell are you?” I’m sick and tired of there being no accountability and no truth in God’s house anymore and few giving a damn to say anything about it for fear of what Pastor will say instead of fear of what God will do. I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired.
I’m sick and tired of Jesus Christ’s name being the laughing-stock of jokes from comedians (some whom are my favorites) like Bill Maher and the late great George Carlin because the church has lost its power and it’s caused His name to be mocked and not yours. I’m sick and tired of the youth and young adults having no voice and the old feeling they have gotten no respect. When the truth is that the youth and young adults would have a voice if they respected the older generation more and the older generation would get the respect they crave if they just simply listened with no judgment to the youth and allowed them to give God glory they way that He implanted in them while helping them to perfect it for His use and not the world’s. I’m sick and tired of seeing stars and celebrities worshiped and exalted in places of favor and wealth while the name of Jesus Christ is censored and forsaken. I’m sick and tired of the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer and when a voice rises up to say something he or she is struck down with the fury of a hurricane. I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired.
I’m sick and tired of you! You who will read this and mock, you who will hear this and do nothing, you who call yourselves saved and followers of God but do more to hinder the word of God and the name of Jesus the all the Atheists and Agnostics combined. You who are the reason for church hurt and people fleeing the church for all the hypocrisy and ignorance flowing from the doorways like the bowels of an upset stomach. I’m sick and tired of you! You who are so easily distracted by the shiny objects the enemy puts in front of your face to knock you from walking in your purpose and be productive therein. You who fail not because you don’t try but because you are too scared to and use the ignorant crutch that says “if it was meant to be it will be,” failing to remember FAITH WITHOUT WORKS IS DEAD! I’m sick and tired of people who come in and begin to do something and change their lives around being torn down as radicals who don’t know anything not by the world but by their own in the church. The very ones who call themselves family. People who tear down Steve Harvey while he has made tremendous strides in his life to get a pure relationship with God, people like President Barrack Obama because we fail to realize he is the President of the United States not the president of blacks and church folk. Yet we exalt and try to push into heaven people like Whitney Houston and Michael Jackson (both who I have respect for) who died do to their own mistakes as if we know where they ended up and what happened just before they died. I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired.
I’m sick and tired of no love not only in the world who doesn’t know or understand the true meaning of it but in the church the place that is supposed to have a relationship with He who is love. Yet we ask the world to swallow our tainted, polluted, virus and disease riddled pill of hate wrapped in bitterness and distain for anyone who is doing better than we are or is striving for a relationship with God by saying what I say I say in love. I’m sick of false, fake, ignorant Christians who have the audacity to quote scripture they don’t truly know the meaning of let alone how to live it. Always with your “you know the bible says or you need to read,” meanwhile don’t have the anointing it takes to save themselves from an attack from the cover let alone an attack from the enemy. I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired.
So no longer will I be sick and tired but I will be well and will speak up no matter how you like it or don’t, because as I said in a previous letter I am a truth teller and I dare not back down from it. I don’t care what you think of me for I’ve grown past your click-ish hypocrisies and tongues of lying blasphemy. I will speak truth and will say it loud and for and to the Glory of God that people be set free. Set free from the mess not just in this world but in the triffin church who won’t lift a finger to help anyone who isn’t related to themselves. Set free from all the mess around them trying to bind and beat them like the African slaves of old. I’m sick and tired of being sick and tired so if someone has to break this mess then I say since I’m sick and tired why not let it be me.
For those of you who weren't completely offended by that lol and even if you were remember Grow in God's Grace and Abide in His love.
