Rejecting the Church is Rejecting God

We risk alienating ourselves from God when we reject the guidance and teaching of the Church. It isn’t because the Church is powerful. It is because the Church is the Body of Christ. It is because the Church is guided into the entire truth by the Holy Spirit. Christ said as much.

The Lord said to his disciples, “He who hears you hears me, and he who rejects you rejects me, and he who rejects me rejects him who sent me.” The seventy returned with joy, saying, “Lord, even the demons are subject to us in your name!” And he said to them, “I saw Satan fall like lightning from heaven. Behold, I have given you authority to tread upon serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy; and nothing shall hurt you. Nevertheless do not rejoice in this, that the spirits are subject to you; but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.” In that same hour he rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that you have hidden these things from the wise and understanding and revealed them to babes; yes, Father, for such was your gracious will.”

Luke 10.16-21

This passage reveals hard teaching for our ears. We Americans prefer to be obligated to nobody. We prefer our individual authority. We prefer to say ‘who’ or ‘what’ is true rather than being told by someone else. We would be mistaken if we took this position.

When clearly said to His Disciples that anyone who rejects the Apostles rejects Christ. Anyone who rejects Christ, rejects the Father. And what does that say about our lack of trust in the Holy Spirit?

The Church doesn’t take this burden lightly. For centuries the Church has remain steadfast ONLY in the teachings of the Holy Apostles as revealed by the Holy Spirit. What makes this difficult for us in 2026 isn’t the Church. It is our ego.

Under the influence of the devil, the world has been working against the Church since the beginning. Using the same trickery that fooled Eve in the Garden, the devil whispers in our ear, “God didn’t really say that.” We, in turn, respond, “I can’t believe in a God who would say that.”

Yet, Christ DID say it. If we reject the Apostles (and they represent the Church) then we reject Christ and the Father. Who would you rather believe? The devil or Christ? I choose Christ and the Church.