We preach:
Atonement, not attainment
Relationship, not religion
The Christ, not the church
We practice:
In matters of morality, purity.
In matters of faith, unity.
In matters of opinion, liberty.
In all things, LOVE.
We are Radical Believers.
The Church today needs:
RENEWAL
REFORMATION
RESTORATION
RECONCILIATION
REUNIFICATION
REVIVAL
Roger Born wrote these declarations in 1996. The Christian Church is still in need today.
The church that Jesus built is not a religion.
All religions are man-made. Exception is the religion given to the Jews by God.
Jesus ushered in a new covenant, He came to set us free from religion and the
man-made laws.
Jesus is the head of His church
Jesus placed few commands on his children. Love one another as He first loved us.
Go spread the the good news of Jesus and salvation.
Believers are free to worship Jesus and to serve Him as they feel led by Him.
All other laws and traditions are just that..man-made.
We keep focused on Jesus and the moral questions are easily answered.
The Secret
If you are more concerned about serving others, rather than yourself, you will be very careful for their feelings, their conscience, and their souls. This is"Hesed". What is "hesed"? This is a Hebrew word that has no Greek equivalent. It has many meanings. It means...service, servitude, loving-kindness or gratitude. The angels visiting Abraham were shown Hesed. The angels showed Hesed to Lot in taking him to safety. Boaz showed it to Ruth; Rahab to the spies and God to the Jews in dealing with them as a nation or a person. These were all Old Testament examples. What about in the New Testament? The word Hesed is never used. As stated before there isn't a word that is equivalent in the Greek language. Strange how such a powerful word could not be translated, but there is a solution.....Jesus is Hesed but first Jesus is LOVE.
We do need unity in the church, but we need this unity to come about without compromising what Jesus taught. We need more radical believers to step up and be counted, take a stand for what you know is right.
Monday, April 4, 2011
Friday, April 1, 2011
All There Is
Have you ever come to a place in your life where it was so hard and you were so worn down and tired of everything being a struggle and a fight that you just sat down in the middle of the road and said to God “Is this it? Is this all You have for me? Because if this is all there is, if this is Your best, I don’t want it.”
I have, I’ve been there more than once. Did Jesus come, do all that He did to give us salvation so we could then be miserable, stressed out, weary and worn down?
No. The Lord began to teach me, and show me how to have now, no matter what is going on around me, His freedom, His healing, His peace, His joy, His strength and His power in my life. Jesus came to not only fulfill the Old Covenant, but to bring the New Covenant, and my friend, there is way more to the New Covenant in Christ Jesus than salvation.
Jesus does not intend for us to be saved and miserable, broken bound up and powerless. Isaiah 9:2 speaks about those who walk in darkness, then in Isaiah 42:7 the wording shifts, the people have gone from walking in darkness to sitting in darkness. To me walking shows some hope, when you are walking in darkness, the movement shows at least you are moving around, trying to find a way out, but when you give up hope and sit down, its almost like acceptance…. Both of these scriptures lead into speaking of Jesus, and what promises He brings, not only of salvation, but of light in the darkness, joy, increase, broken bonds, freedom.
God promises to protect and support and heal, not just mental and emotional, but also physical. Look at Jesus’ ministry, He set people totally free, no matter what their situation. In fact, situations were on the bottom of His priority list, He loved people where they were. Now I don’t think that means He does not care about our situations, what I think that means is we need to root our faith in HIM, not in our situations! Do you know God’s promises? Do you really believe God is who He says He is? Or have you allowed the lies of the enemy to bind you up? I believe that Jesus is tired of His people who know Him as Savior sitting in the dark in chains! I heard a wonderful teacher and prophet say any area of your life that you do not have glistening hope, there is a lie. My dear friend, ask the Holy Spirit to start not only showing you the lies you are believing about yourself and about the Lord, but also what His truths are! Jesus said the Truth will set you free! Come on that journey with me and learn to live in the joy and peace and strength and freedom we have already been given. Jesus said it is finished.
Learn to be so rooted in Him, that circumstances don’t control you, you live above them in the promised land He has for you today….and all eternity. Eternity started on the cross more than 2000 years ago. Life in the Light, walking in increasing freedom, joy, amazing peace and power, above what ever situations I find myself in, I’m experiencing God’s best! Are you?
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