A bumper sticker, a slogan, a quote from Jesus with someone’s uninterrupted commentary for an hour or two a week… is not the same as walking out His life together, as He demonstrated, proclaimed, and enabled.
ToGetHer, His Bride. The Second Adam. The meaning of the Garden and the intention of God, fulfilled in the life and teaching and future-scaled life in His daily church. “His intent is now, through His Body, His church, His family, to demonstrate His manifold wisdom even to principalities and powers in the dark world.” “I will build My family that the gates of hell can no longer prevail against.”
Still part DNA human, but forgiven, empowered to future change in humility, to demonstrate Him “from one degree of glory to another.” The Pioneer and Author.
Let’s go there, rather than set up the placebo of clergy control attendance, like the other world religions. Jesus forbid titles and ignored scripted-by-man, choreographed-by-man. “When revelation or inspiration comes to the second, let the first one sit down.” He designed us to be a kingdom of priests, a royal priesthood, part of Him, together.
“The hand can’t say to the eye, ‘I have no need of you until next Friday or Saturday or Sunday.’”
This has nothing to do with a building, although there were no “church buildings” until after 250AD, 200 years after Jesus.
Instead, it is related to daily relationships, deep calling to deep daily. Hebrews 3:12–13, Acts 2:42–47.
It is loving each other into greatness every day, with the gifts that are in each of us (Rom. 12, Eph. 4:11–17, 1 Cor. 12–14), rather than a pedigreed spiritual man, like the other world religions. Everyone has gifts, and shepherd is only one of them, in the midst as one who serves, “and you are all just brothers,” said even to the apostles by Jesus. There is no official Talker or official CEO.
Where to start? Right where we are all at. Additive, not subtractive. Loving, not insulting or attacking. And change is hard, but worth it—because it’s what Jesus said, not the Whisper Game. https://lnkd.in/eZy4dwNp
A nine-year-old child forced to wear size 12 shoes is only going to trip and fall, not run. But a nine-year-old child who grows up isn’t going to continue to wear size 7 shoes without doing severe damage. Let’s help each other, not curse childhood! Patient love! To be a “troubler of Israel“ and a wild boar in the vineyard, as Jesus was is ok — if patient love is your flow and glow!
With a Gen Z Jesus-guy, a couple of days ago, “This is NOT about a ‘better way to do church’ or ‘this way is wrong and this way is right.’
Not that! Please!
If Jesus is not a liar, and he certainly Proved he is not, then we should see all around us in the religious world, “greater works than these shall YOU do,” and “Rivers of alive water gushing from the inner man from all who are abandoned to Me!” and mountains thrown into the sea! Perhaps we can try it His way instead of the results of 1900 years of the “Whisper Game”?
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