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Up until about 200 years ago “we” meant your family. When “we” started to be society, it marked a major turning point in the transition to a collectivized world. Satan has been guiding the world to this collectivization to advance his own purposes. He cannot be everywhere at once and needs to leverage his influence to increase his control.

I would suggest that unsaved people can only be collectivized so far. Feudal Japan probably represents the highest level of collectivization possible naturally. To really collectivize the world, Satan needed Christians who were able to sublimate their selfishness to such a degree as to construct social institutions that would not be so easily torn apart.

Key to this was the church as a system and institution. Once people could be sufficiently bound to these systems, they could be transferred to political and corporate collectives and technology could provide the tools to maintain the collective without the need for Christians any more.

As a measure of how far this process of collectivization has come, one has to only consider why people do not start a family business like a grocery store, hardware store, or gas station any more. There is little room for individuals to work outside the collective.

For those of us drawn by the Father to Jesus, we can consider that the means that is used is truth. It is a perception of, desire for, and recognition of truth that draws us to Jesus who is truth. However, those who are drawn to truth often are puzzled over the institution and function of church. If we try to view the church as a mechanism of truth, we find it hard to see where programs, events, activities, classes, and lectures accomplish this.

The only people we can “sell” on the idea of church are those who already are resonant with these collectivized systems.

I have found it better to seek those who are seeking truth and tell them about Jesus. Bringing these people to a church may not help them to grow into the image of Christ. It is sad but it looks like any real Christian progress needs to be conducted outside of mechanical church systems.