We’ve recently celebrated Easter, and it was a good time to remember about Jesus, and his death, burial, and resurrection. How that changed everything about life.

And if you’re like me, between managing life, work, and family, you barely have time to take a break but at least, for Easter, there were promptings, nudgings, and reminders from God to pause, reflect, and remember that there is more to life than our daily struggles.

Now more than ever, people ponder about Easter, especially as we see so much happening in a world that seems to spiral more and more out of control. Everything from the Iran war, Epstein files, weather manipulation (chemtrails and more), deception, AI, health issues, corruption in churches, corruption in government, and moral and social decay. (I’m sure you can add more to this list).

Since 2020, these sorts of things seemed to have accelerated, and the church has not been unaffected. Many people may not know this, but did you know that 99% of the churches in America are under 501c3 status? Now what does that have to do with anything? 501c3 status basically means that the church filed with the US government as tax-exempt so they get a tax write-off. But, it also means that the church filed a legal document with the government and in essence, in order to retain 501c3 status, agreed with the government’s rules about the organization: the church.

You may think there is no harm in this but essentially, the church is putting herself under the government instead of directly to God. Did you know that there was a time when churches were not under 501c3 status? Churches being under 501c3 started in 1954. Since then, almost all the churches in the U.S. have filed under 501c3.

Unfortunately, once the government starts getting involved in something, it starts to go bad. That happened with schools. Once government started taking over and regulating public schools, the quality of schools has dropped. As a result, people opted for charter schools and homeschooling — especially in California, where things got especially bad.

In the same way, since the creation of the 501c3 status, many churches have lost the original intent of what a church should be — answering to God first, and only. This is a hard pill to swallow, and it’s easy to think, “It’s always been this way,” or “This is no big deal,” or “It’s just on paper, but we follow Christ.” Let’s at least consider, however, that maybe, being in 501c3 isn’t always what’s best for the church. The failures of the 501c3 church we see, more evidentially, in the large, mega-churches, but even mid and smaller churches are affected negatively as well.

I’ll leave you with this thought: Christians — if we are doing something that weakens the church, wouldn’t we want to stop, even if it’s something that’s always been done? (More on this coming, but will stop here for this post).

Note: This post is not going against Christian people or pastors, but rather the church system. There are good people and pastors in churches, but the church system, especially those under 501c3, have become corrupt.