One Direction Church

Just a little something that’s been sitting in my heart and something I wanted to share with you…

It’s amazing how much attention we give to what the enemy is doing “out there” to attack the church, yet so seldom do we pause to reflect on what is happening within the body that creates its own ruckus. What do we do when the real battle isn’t external, but internal?

Scripture warns us about this:
“For the time has come for judgment to begin at the house of God” (1 Peter 4:17).
“Take heed… lest you be consumed by one another” (Galatians 5:15).

Some diseases spread through the air, but the most dangerous ones are those that originate from within—when the body begins to attack itself. The same is true for the church. The most painful wounds are often not from persecution outside the walls, but from division, pride, and resistance inside them.

The Bible calls this out plainly:
“A house divided against itself cannot stand” (Mark 3:25).
“There are factions among you, and in part I believe it” (1 Corinthians 11:18).

We are called to submit to Christ, our King, our Head, the One who is supreme. And sadly, so much of the quarreling we see today is rooted in an unwillingness to submit to what the King is doing and what He desires to continue doing in His Church and throuh His Church.

Scripture affirms Christ’s authority:
“He is the head of the body, the church… that in all things He may have the supremacy” (Colossians 1:18).
“Submit yourselves therefore to God” (James 4:7).

Even in Jesus’ time, the attacks didn’t come primarily from the outsiders. They came from those who claimed to love God the most—the teachers of the law, the devoted, the religious elite.

Jesus Himself exposed this:
“He came to His own, and His own did not receive Him” (John 1:11).
“You nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition” (Matthew 15:6).
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!” (Matthew 23:27).

What we see today is not much different. When the church refuses to submit to Christ—His direction, His Spirit, His correction—the body begins to resist the body. The internal battle becomes more destructive than any external threat.

The early church faced the same warnings:
“Where envy and self-seeking exist, confusion and every evil thing are there” (James 3:16).
“For God is not the author of confusion but of peace” (1 Corinthians 14:33).

But the cure is the same today as it was then:
Return to submission. Return to humility. Return to the King. When the body aligns with the Head, healing begins.

Scriptural foundation for the cure:
“If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves… I will heal their land” (2 Chronicles 7:14).
“Endeavor to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace” (Ephesians 4:3).
“Speaking the truth in love… we grow up into Him who is the head, Christ” (Ephesians 4:15).

Just something to think about….🙇🏻‍♀️
~Pastor Annie