Much of the twenty-first
century church community is a man made mess, blind to its true reality,
offering up Ishmael offerings to God as a form of Godliness. With more wrong
than right the church is beyond the tipping point, and ill prepared for the
great confrontations with the powers of darkness that lie ahead. We need to
scrap the denominational protocols – man’s way of gathering together -- and
search the New Covenant scriptures to learn how to become an organic body of
believers living life as a real spiritual family here on planet earth. Church
should be about:
*Equipping one another for
the work of ministry… in the enemy’s camp, the world.
*Building the body of Christ…
one stone at a time.
*Embracing the Lordship of
Christ and the death of Self… releasing our Savior’s nature within.
*Embracing the suffering of
our Lord… learning obedience God’s way.
*Learning corporate fellowship…
Worship in Spirit and in truth.
*And,
above all, loving one another.
These church elements are the
mile-markers of every saint’s journey into Christlikeness, the number one thing
on God’s heart. Having predestined us as His “sons” He must make us fit for
“Sonship.” Scripture commands we “Put on the Lord Jesus Christ” – clothe our Self
in Him – “and make no provisions for the flesh”: To do so we must submit to His Lordship and will the death of Self. Our Savior’s
heart, in lock-step with the Father’s will, is defined by Love, Obedience, Passion,
Sacrifice and Humility. These should be the stand out virtues of our heart, the
ever increasing experience of those who have allowed Christ to take up
residence in them. The degree we are truly His is the degree we have submitted
to His Lordship in all things, the degree we have put Self to death on His
Cross, the degree we think, speak and act like Jesus… the degree we have
allowed His life to flow through our life as our life. This is a great and
glorious mystery, which is Christ in me, my only hope of eternal glory.
LIVING LIFE AS A REAL SPIRITUAL FAMILY
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