The following was generated by AI, but I post it in order to elaborate a step further.
“Throughout history, countless men and women have risen up with a burning conviction: that the living Spirit of Christ had been smothered by man-made tradition.
The Waldensians in the 12th century, the Anabaptists in the 16th, the Quakers in the 17th, the Pentecostals in the 20th—and many unnamed believers across the centuries—all proclaimed the same truth: that Jesus and His apostles preached a gospel of Spirit, freedom, and life that was far different from the institutions built in His name.
And what happened to them? Again and again, they were ignored, shunned, mocked, or persecuted. Why? Because the call to return to the raw, Spirit-filled gospel threatens the comfort of established religion.
Yet their voices still echo: the kingdom of God is not ritual, not hierarchy, not tradition—but “righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.”
History shows us that whenever the Spirit moves, institutions resist. But the flame never dies. 🔥”
To elaborate a step further, yes, in modern times there have been those who believed strongly that the churches strayed from the original gospel and teachings of Jesus. But now there is a new phase occurring, which might even lead to churches getting a step closer to the gospel as Jesus taught it to his apostles. As God the Father, and Jesus the Son, and the Holy Spirit reveal things to those with childlike open hearts, unsophisticated, able to learn anew, it starts a new foundation among believers, where the revealed true message becomes the basis of renewed faith. We who are being taught by this grace are given renewed understanding of the gospels in the scriptures. We find things taught by Jesus in those gospels and the epistles which were obscured for centuries, but the Holy Spirit now brings again to light. It is a chance for church life to start again.
Here this is restated as AI has generated it:
“For centuries, many reformers have cried out that the churches drifted far from the original gospel of Jesus and His apostles. They were often ignored, shunned, or even persecuted.
But now something new is stirring. We are entering a phase where God the Father, Jesus the Son, and the Holy Spirit are revealing truth again—this time to those with childlike, open hearts. Not the sophisticated, not the entrenched, but those willing to learn anew.
This grace is laying a new foundation among believers. Passages once buried under layers of tradition are being illuminated again by the Spirit. What Jesus taught in the gospels, what His apostles wrote in their letters—truths long obscured—are now breaking through with fresh clarity.
It is a chance for church life to begin again.
Not built on institutions. Not chained to human tradition.
But rooted in the revealed gospel, brought to life by the Holy Spirit.
The flame is being rekindled. The question is: will we have hearts open enough to see it? 🔥”
