Kingdom elevation above church led me to truth

I have always been under the impression that Christianity is about elevating church above all else. I assumed that this is an appropriate response to a commandment to put God first. I also assumed that questioning anything about the church tradition or culture is tantamount to being unfaithful to God, because the culture in the denominational church that I came from did not encourage critical questions on church protocols. As a matter of fact I remember an incident when I was younger a group of youths who were older than me were labeled rebels because they dared to challenge the church elders on how things were conducted in church.

This posture of prioritizing church above all else grew my knowledge of my denominational church traditions and culture but it did not grow my knowledge of the true God. The Kingdom of God is a spiritual realm where true knowledge about God resides.The church was created as an institution where knowledge about the Kingdom of God is to be taught, but human beings in their effort to get to God, created religion which led to the misdirection of the church mission and instead created an institution that acts as a stumbling block to the knowledge of divine truth. Religion misdirected the original mission of the church by mixing divine truth with other spiritual kingdoms, adding human logic to the divine truth and amending divine truth to fit in with popular culture.

When I elevated church above all else I was blinded from seeing that my denominational church was unintentionally amending divine truth to fit with popular culture and if I continue in this church I will certainly lose out on what God has in store for me but when I prioritized knowledge of the Kingdom above all else it led me to a church that still fulfills the mandate as God had intended.

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