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Bride of Christ, who is she – 40 yrs. with Jesus

15 Sunday Mar 2015

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Bride of Christ, who is she? 40 Years with Jesus & Prophecy

Some call me a romantic, an idealist or a dreamer who is out of touch with reality but this March 30th 2015 I am starting my 15th year of being crazy in love with my wife Sandy Spencer. With this overwhelming desire to race home every day after work just to be in her presence, I have been given a partial inside glance of how Jesus views His Bride to be.

I was studying with a friend several years ago and he just blurted out;

 …everyone knows who the Bride of Christ is!

Do you know who the Bride of Christ is? Do you think you are in that company? Are there any qualifications that are expected to be met? Can you point out those that are the Bride of Christ and those that are not? What is her purpose both now & in the future?

In this hour of prophetic fulfillment many religious people will try to persuade you to make eternal decisions based on Heaven or Hell; what a pathetic existence of fear based teaching. Yes Heaven & Hell are very, very real but our motivation of eternity cannot be based on NOT GOING TO Hell therefore Heaven is a better alternative. Our eternity is not based on where but on whom. The Bride of Christ is NOTHING without the Groom: Jesus.

I will give you the answers right up front, if this speaks to you then enjoy the details that follow.

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The Bride of Christ is:

  • Real people.
  • Gentiles not Jews, not composed of Old Testament Saints.
  • In love with Jesus, the Son of our Living God.
  • The ones that have submitted to the cleansing & purifying of His Word.
  • Not the whole Church but a called-out body, from a called-out body.
  • Many are called but she will be chosen from the called by a set of virtues.
  • The 100 fold; not the 60 fold or 30 fold chosen from the same ground or field.
  • Prepared for the rapture event that starts the Wedding Feast.
  • Will be caught away in the rapture event.
  • The rapture of the Bride is the first fruits offering of the barley harvest.
  • John’s vision of the 24 elders with crowns (not the multitude) Revelation 4.
  • The ones that say: “Come.” Revelation 22:17.

 

The Bride can be also be identified by 5 crowns or rewards for her earthly service:

  • Victor’s Crown: overcoming the desires of the flesh 1Corinthians 9:25.
  • Rejoicing Crown or Soul Winners Crown Philippians 4:1, 1 Thessalonians 2:19
  • Crown of Righteousness or Watchers Crown 2 Timothy 4:8
  • Crown of Life: remaining faithful in persecution James 1:12, Revelation 2:10
  • Crown of Glory: leading those in your influence with a righteous example 1 Peter 5:1-4

Again, the one true motive behind all of this service is because we are so crazy in love with our Lord Jesus, thankful for his: life, death & resurrection, living in full faith that He is preparing a place for us and that He can’t wait to have His Harold proclaim: “Behold the Bridegroom cometh!”

If you realize you are not in this company of The Bride of Christ, make yourself ready…choose to be chosen!

Details of the above declarations

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We must mix all of the scriptures with faith or they remain as just words on a page. Over 40 years ago I was seeking Truth and I was given the very Word of God that pointed me to God’s Son Jesus and The Holy Spirit or the “Spirit of Truth” that teaches me all things! Wow what a package deal!

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Look Up: 40 Yrs. with Jesus

17 Tuesday Feb 2015

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Look Up: 40 Yrs. with Jesus

There comes a time when our lives would be much better if we would just look up.

Our dog Cowboy is getting up in years and surely his sense of smell is better than his eyesight. In the woods he was on the scent of the elk that linger on our property especially in the winter. Nose to the ground, at the edge of the pond with a full charge forward…it would have been much better if he had just looked up. Like a “slapstick” cartoon he actually ran into the largest elk of the bunch; he yelps, takes a submissive roll to his back and then slides into the pond.

In the past 40 years walking with Jesus, I have discovered three types of people:

Group One:

…those that drift aimlessly down the river, their compass is what “feels” good and usually with no goals or sense of direction. They have the thought that they cannot affect their destiny, therefore they try to “experience” everything with no consideration of consequences from choices or worse; lack of choices. They seem to have a lot of “drama” in their lives, little depth of truth, fleeting pleasure and little happiness. These remind me of those in Philippians 3:18-20 “…who set their minds on earthly things.” (read the rest below)

Group Two:

…those who crave knowledge and have mastered the Bible: “knowing” everything about the Jewish calendar & feasts, understanding the prophecies of end time eternity, dazzling those around with their expertise of the “tions” salvation, sanctification, redemption, justification, resurrection, dispensations, elections, predestination…blah, blah, blah. Possessing such great knowledge results in a life of: rules, laws and legalism but no relationship with the very Author of the Bible. This reminds me of Martha the sister of Lazarus in Luke 10:40 “…Martha was distracted with all her preparations…” Or the verse in Matthew 13:14 “In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah: “You will be ever hearing but never understanding; you will be ever seeing but never perceiving.”

Group Three:

…these may look like they are aimlessly drifting, but in reality they are flowing toward a predetermined destiny. They may consume large quantities of Bible information but more like a treasure hunter learning as much as they can about the author of the book. They are constantly looking up as Mary (the other sister of Lazarus) did when she sat at the feet of Jesus; listening, learning in a relationship with the one who was speaking. Luke 10:39 “…Mary, who was seated at the Lord’s feet, listening to His word.”

Like our dog Cowboy, perhaps we would all be better off, if we just looked up.

Luke 21:28 And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.

Revelation 4:1 After this I looked (up), and there before me was a door standing open in heaven. And the voice I had first heard speaking to me like a trumpet said, “Come up here, and I will show you what must take place after this.

Philippians 3:18-20 For many walk, of whom I often told you, and now tell you even weeping, that they are enemies of the cross of Christ, whose end is destruction, whose god is their appetite, and whose glory is in their shame, who set their minds on earthly things. For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ.

Psalm 46:10 Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!

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We must mix all of the scriptures with faith or they remain as just words on a page. Over 40 years ago I was seeking Truth and I was given the very Word of God that pointed me to God’s Son Jesus and The Holy Spirit or the “Spirit of Truth” that teaches me all things! Wow what a package deal!

If this treasure hunt together is too slow, Email me with the key you are looking for and perhaps I can unlock a quicker path to find it!

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Dream: The Suit doesn’t Fit – Don’t Return to Babylon

16 Monday Feb 2015

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Dream – The Suit doesn’t fit – Don’t Return to Babylon

February 16, 2015: I have not dreamed like this for years. Walking in my old office at Christian Faith Center in Western Washington, it was dark outside my window and I knew the evening service was about to begin. I was rushed by the music leader and told that I was leading the singing and the musicians, sound team & the graphic team who put the words on the flat screens needed my song list.

I looked around my office & it was just as I left it when I was fired back in 1993, I reached to a top shelf to get a 3 ringed binder with most of the old songs I used to sing but the binder was gone and I realized I kept tugging at my suit, I was not comfortable at all.

Next there was a woman outside my door yelling, as I open the door I see that she was with two other lady friends of hers that were trying to quite her and get her to leave. She was demanding to know why Casey Treat was supporting an issue that was Non Biblical. I began to ask her about the issue when someone started to whisper in my ear: “Ask her if she is a member” she said: “Yes”. Then the voice instructed me to ask her: “Which Campus” when I asked her she just got mad, I realized I was not helping her but only deflected the conversation back to make her “feel” like she lost the argument (this was a typical Religious Babylonian tactic). Then I began to boldly speak in other tongues to clear the atmosphere of demonic confusion and everyone quickly left.

Reentering my office I saw Casey standing in front of my desk, he didn’t look so good and I could tell he was perturbed as the service was being delayed, I can’t remember Casey saying anything just then the sound guy rushed in and started wiring me with a mic but it felt all bunched up under my suitcoat. I walked down the hallway with him then I slipped into the rest room to try to fix my coat. As I looked in the mirror it wasn’t that I was fat, it was the suit itself; it just didn’t fit any more.

Leaving the restroom, the hallway was clear, I could hear Casey’s voice from the auditorium trying to lead singing and it was horrible. No band just someone playing “off key” on the piano. As I entered the auditorium I noticed it had been remodeled, it had the feeling of an old religious décor; pews with song books, four foot white walls separating the people from the platform, an all-white piano and it just looked, felt & smelt old & dead. A staff member I remember on the music team walked up to the stage mic, trying to take the awkward feeling off of Casey, he tried to pray in tongues like I had done earlier but he added a “sing song” style to it and it was hideous but the congregation couldn’t discern it one way or the other, they all seemed hypnotized.

I actually squeezed into a pew full of people to get a hymnal and the people acted as if I was invisible, they didn’t even see me. I started to grab a hymnal but there weren’t any; now all of the backs of the pews were filled with old library books and trash.

I stood up straight, still very uncomfortable in the suit I was wearing, looked around with a feeling of exhaustion, weariness, sadness and despair. Dream over.

For me personally I know exactly what the dreams means, God is very clear with me and I don’t need to post my interpretation for me but what about you? Does this dream speak to you on any level? If I can help, write me and let me know.

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Knowing where God lives: 40 Yrs. with Jesus

18 Thursday Dec 2014

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Knowing where God lives: 40 Yrs. with Jesus – Day 142,563

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There are keys and then there are master keys.

Knowing where God lives or where His Presence is or where He invests His: time, energy, resources and life has become the most valuable master key in my life.

Isaiah 57:15a (NKJV) For thus says the High and Lofty One Who inhabits eternity, whose name is Holy: 

I dwell in the high and holy place, With him who has a contrite and humble spirit…

 

I have discovered some religions practice one or the other but have not found one that practices both. See if you can understand the master key here. 

Contrite and Humble but no reverence for the Holy

I have been in meetings where broken people have come to the end of themselves, cried out to God and have fallen on the floor laughing uncontrollably. Quoting the verse Isaiah 61:3 (NKJV) “…The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness…” but then observed as the “flesh” takes over and they start barking like dogs (no reverence). 

Legalistically Reverent but no intimate experience

On the other hand I have walked into meetings where everyone is legalistically threatened to enter like an old-fashioned library; most of the women wore grey with their hair up in buns and the men cowered like passive pets. They were trying to honor God who dwells in the High and Holy Place but actually made Him unreachable altogether. 

The Master Key is to live in both! Tips I have discovered…

 When I pray in public, I formally pray to our Father in Heaven (the High and Holy Place) in The Name of Jesus; referring to Jesus as Royalty; my King, my Lord, The Son of God! In contrast when I pray in the presence of our small group or my family or just all by myself; the atmosphere in the room turns more informal.

My language and worship dive deep, personal and intimate. There is no concern here for formalities or ritual. This is the place where my spirit prays: deep to deep. A place where there is no concern for time or schedules. It is the time of true confession and repentance and worship and deep joy with great hope and incomparable faith. The place where God dwells: in a contrite and humble spirit while maintaining reverence for the High and Holy!

 

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Key to Freedom – Forgiveness: 40 Yrs. with Jesus

16 Tuesday Dec 2014

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Key to Freedom – Forgiveness: 40 Yrs. with Jesus

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Forgivness

We do seem like fakes; the times we have said we forgive when deep down in our hearts we want that person to burn in hell. We learned as children to say “sorry” but forgiveness is deeper, it is a process but, I have discovered that there is that moment when it really comes true! 

Growing up we called it our “bad bag”. Everyone that caused us an injustice, we carried around in our thoughts every day. Then if a new person harmed us we would throw them in the bag with everyone else and compound the injustices that were already in the bag. 

Some men have gone to the moon, discovered cures for diseases, saved people from burning buildings or have written the greatest symphony…well…my great goal, accomplishment, achievement was to empty my “bad bag”. 

It is a process; one that for me started by understanding the injustices that Jesus; the Son of God encountered and then followed His path of how to forgive. I have honestly prayed Matthew 6:12 “…And forgive us our debts, As we forgive our debtors” (NKJV). Today I can pray it in advance:  

Father God I purpose in my heart to forgive in advance anyone who would try to harm me or my family this day, help me to walk in forgiveness, Amen.

 Today I pray that you would open YOUR “bad bag” and just dump it, you may feel like a fake in the beginning but as the process continues it DOES become REAL! 

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Prophecy – Time to Glean

15 Monday Dec 2014

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 Time to glean

These past years the commission from my Lord Jesus has narrowed from a broad “shotgun” type ministry of the whole world, to a more focused target. Some would call me a missionary, not to an underdeveloped country but a missionary to the United States of America, primarily to the Gentile Church of the United States of America.  Things have changed here and I am to be a witness to the fact that just because “man” changes things does not mean that God indorses those changes.

Time to take inventory of this once great nation; to see and hear what the Lord Jesus has to say about what to speak and what to do. “Father God I ask in Jesus Name that You would lead and guide us as we take inventory, let us stay focused on your tour, help us not to get distracted. In those places where it may seem dark and hopeless; hold our hand, give us strength and make Your purposes clear and sure. Amen”

There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,  without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good,  treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God—  having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people.2 Timothy 3:1-5 (NIV)

 Inventory:

Men and women who have called themselves spokesmen for God: have, are and continue to rape the sheep of God. These false teachers have left hundreds of thousands of people maimed, hurt, confused and broke. False Evangelists have physically gone from city to city operating in a spirit of witchcraft and stealing what little God’s sheep had. This destruction continues today through the airwaves. People have been paralyzed through lies, false hope and mind altering substances.

A word from our Lord (even though this may apply to other regions in the world, remember the context is the USA)

“This is the hour of final gleaning just as Ruth (Ruth 2:3) gleaned behind the reapers in the field of Boaz. Walk through the fields says our Lord, lift up the rubble, call out one more time, and communicate again with loved ones, even those who call you enemy.

Listen; listen for a breath, for a heartbeat for any interest in Truth. Reach out with faith; faith to bring little ones to salvation, faith to heal the sick and to cast out demons, faith to pray for a sound mind.

In this hour of final gleaning do not be distracted by the promoting of large crowds; glean the one, glean the two be the good servant (Matthew 24:45).”

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Treasure Hunter: 40 Yrs. with Jesus

11 Thursday Dec 2014

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Gold Fever – In 1980 I travelled to Alaska with three other families on a gold mining expedition costing over 2 million dollars and personally lost everything. I journaled the event thinking I might sell it as a book, but it was so negative I burnt it in the fire. Now armed with this experience I turned to being a treasure hunter in the Word of God.

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Know Truth & be Set Free!

We must mix all of the scriptures with faith or they remain as just words on a page. Over 40 years ago I was seeking Truth and I was given the very Word of God that pointed me to God’s Son Jesus and The Holy Spirit or the “Spirit of Truth” that teaches me all things! Wow what a package deal!

Here are three things I started my search with…
  1. As we walk with Jesus He, through relationship gives us the Keys: Matthew 16:19 (NKJV) And I (Jesus) will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven…
  2. There are real Enemies who don’t want us to have the Keys: Luke 11:52 (NKJV) “Woe to you lawyers! For you have taken away the key of knowledge. You did not enter in yourselves, and those who were entering in you hindered.”
  3. The attitude of a true treasure hunter is that we must seek believing that we will find. Hebrews 4:2 (NKJV) For indeed the gospel was preached to us as well as to them; but the word which they heard did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in those who heard it. Matthew 7:7 (NKJV) “Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.

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Miracles coming out of the Mars Hill fiasco!

06 Thursday Nov 2014

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I am sorry to post the above video clip of Mark Driscoll because I know he was caught in a religions trap, even if he created it himself. This abuse has got to stop!

The True Church.

Has one of your friends or family been spiritually abused by this fiasco, please Email this to them.

As God pulls back the spiritual veil I can see around 20,000 hurt, scared, mad, and confused followers of Jesus because of Mark Driscoll and Mars Hill.

HEAR THIS GOOD NEWS!

What you experienced in Jesus WAS REAL! But now what do you do with it, where do you go from here? For your sake and the sake of your family and The True Church – STAY HOME!

Stay home and be blessed & healed starting by reading my free EBook; Church what it is and is not. You will find that you may be spot on. There is a good chance that you are in God’s perfect will and on the perfect bulls-eye!

INTRODUCTION TO: CHURCH WHAT IT IS AND IS NOT

A NOTE FROM THE AUTHOR

EVERY week thousands of members of the body of Christ are sitting at home, confused, hurt, isolated & unassembled.  These people know that they love Jesus, but have had a hard time understanding what has been called the “Church.”  Most of these folks have walked with Jesus for many years, and have desperately tried to fit in by doing everything that was expected of them.  They have served many departments, given of their time & resources, & sat through endless hours of meetings trying to help the Leader in his many decisions.  But something was wrong, something was lacking, something was out-of-order and there seemed to be no solution, so they just quietly slipped home & never returned.  Perhaps this describes you or someone you know.

For those who have looked at “the Church” and have made a decision not to participate because of all of the abuse, scandals and confusion, “I ask that you would forgive us.”  Truly we have not been a good example of who Jesus the Son of the Living God really is.  But after today, after reading the truth in these pages, you will no longer have an excuse for not following Jesus.  No matter what man has done to you or what you have seen man do to others.  Please read on.

My purpose is to give hope to you valuable people at home; you may be closer to the perfect will of God than you know!   Even in the sorry condition of the seven churches of Asia, Jesus still referred to them as golden.

“…and the seven (golden) lamp stands… are the seven churches:”  ~ Revelation 1:20

Hear these words, Jesus gave his very life for the church and He still considers us valuable containers of His presence!  He still calls us friend and His Bride-to-be!  However, if a sailing ship was traveling from Cordova Alaska to San Francisco, California, and its navigation was one degree off with no course correction, eventually it would wind up in Chile, South America.  Do you see the point?  Just one degree off over 4000 miles!

Jesus only mentioned the word church twice in all of his teachings; do you suppose what we have today is what He intended?  Or could it be that 2000 years ago, the church got one degree off course and has not only not hit the bull’s-eye, but has missed the target all together?  Do we dare ask this question?  I did and my findings are frightfully FREEING!

This book is by no means a complete exhaustive theological study on the subject of ‘The Church’, but I do believe by understanding the history, the process and some “real life” experiences, it might help you see a bigger picture.  For those of you that have left the church building and haven’t returned, this might answer some of your questions, remove any shame that “well meaning” people have put on you and possibly show you how close to the perfect will of God you might be.

I too have been wounded by what has been called the “Church,” and some of my writings reflect those scars.  My intent is not to throw stones, but to reveal my process.  This book is written in the order that the information was discovered, much like a journal.  You may understand the revelations better if you read it from beginning to end.  I pray that you find the information and process as life changing as I did.

Please read the whole book, it is free and healing.

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CHURCH VS MINISTRY – Introduction

05 Wednesday Nov 2014

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INTRODUCTION

A doctor in the operating room asks his assistant to do a certain procedure but the assistant replied: “I don’t know how to do that.” Then the frustrated doctor yelled: “Go back to school and learn the things you don’t know.” The assistant said to himself: “How can I learn the things I don’t know, if I don’t know what they are?”

It takes an amazing Man of God to admit he does not know everything and that we as a body need each other to press us all to a higher level. My prayer is that you and I, in this process, may press each other to a higher level in Christ.

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This is a “workbook style” handbook for those who are transitioning from an institutional form of man-made religion to Jesus’s original new wine skin, which brings freedom to both The True Church and the many ministries that The True Church is involved in! If this is helpful to you please put this book in the hands of the leadership team before you have you Vision meeting, it will set some leaders free in advance and expedite your meeting.

Warning: if you are satisfied with what you think the Church is then do not read this because it will challenge you to search for Truth and will demand you take action! The True Word of God will wonderfully mess with our old traditions, “sacred cows” and everything else built on the foundation of hay, wood and straw.

“Now if anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, 13 each one’s work will become clear; for the Day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire; and the fire will test each one’s work, of what sort it is. If anyone’s work which he has built on it endures, he will receive a reward. If anyone’s work is burned, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire.” 1 Corinthians 3:12-15 (NKJV)

It has taken me over 40 years to climb up the mountain so I could get a better view of The True Church that Jesus said He would build. In my journey I discovered: what the Church is not, what the Church is, where the Church has drifted and why.

I have also defined several well thought out schemes Satan has used to deceive, silence and ultimately paralyze The True Church. Understanding the difference between Church & Ministry will answer many questions of why we have so many “churches” and though they may have an image of godliness, they are actually powerless and most have played right into Satan’s scheme. “having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people.” 2 Timothy 3:5

In my book Church what it is and is not I go to great lengths to document my real life journey of discovery, which details The True Church. In this article today, I am doing the laundry and separating two words that are not interchangeable. Two words that modern society has muddied to the point of confused Christians falling away from our Lord Jesus altogether.

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Chapter 1 – CHURCH VS MINISTRY The True Church!

05 Wednesday Nov 2014

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Chapter 1–WHAT THE TRUE CHURCH REALLY IS!

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DEFINE THE TRUE CHURCH (The called-out ones) The following are my working scriptures in (NKJV) unless otherwise specified. From my Book Church What it is…

Colossians 1:13 “He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love.”

Matthew 16:18 “…I (Jesus) will build My church…”

Matthew 18:20 “For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them.”

Ephesians 3:10 “…now the manifold wisdom of God might be made known by the church to the principalities and powers in the heavenly places,”

After Bible College in 1982 I prayed this prayer: “Lord Jesus help me to flush the toilet on everything I learned here and as I personally go through Your Word again may only the things that are Truth remain.” I am asking you to do the same. We have to start asking some foundational questions like: in the above scriptures where do we get the idea that the Church is a building or non-profit organization where we have to be concerned about pews, hymnals and TV cameras?

Here is a simple working process to a definition:

The True Church is not A something, it is WHEN something. The True Church is WHEN two or more followers of Jesus connect. The smallest, purest form of Jesus’ Church is an individual family starting with the husband & wife:

Ephesians 5:22-33 “Wives…husbands…This is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church.” The True Church could grow larger in number with a granddad, grandmother, children or grandchildren! But The True Church is not limited by size; it could be five families gathering together or an entire city gathering together. So to call a building a church is not just “mincing” words or semantics, it is the foundational building block of deception, which Satan has used; through false religion to paralyze The True Church.

The True Church is not limited by; time, days or special places. The True Church is WHEN or whenever, wherever, at any time or all the time!

The True Church does not even need money to exist or function! Oops, was that a bombshell? I have walked in this revelation for over 25 years and sometimes words just pop out without the process of my revelation. So here was my foundational question to our Lord Jesus; “What is the absolute minimum The True Church needs to BE The True Church?

Answer: one born again person is only a Christian, it takes a minimum of two True Followers of Jesus that connect or come together to cause the wonderful miracle of the presence of our Lord Jesus, the very Son of God to manifest. That is it, that is The True Church! That is the FREEDOM & POWER that terrifies Satan himself! That is “…the manifold wisdom of God … made known by the church to the principalities and powers in the heavenly places,” Ephesians 3:10.

Think about it; two Jesus following women bump into each other in the produce section of the grocery store and one sister says: “A colleague at my work has been attacked with cancer would you pray?” The two may shake hands, like a typical greeting In a public market (not attracting any unnecessary attention) pray a simple prayer of agreement and at that very moment, the presence of our Lord Jesus will manifest, God is glorified, cancer is healed and Satan is once again defeated!

Therefore: here is my shocking list of what The True Church does not need: money, tithe, buildings, hymnals, a once a week religious “service,” toilet paper, bank account, governmental non-profit status, sound system, praise & worship leader or team, youth pastor; for that matter it does not need: Apostles, Prophets, Pastors, Evangelist or Teachers to function on a daily basis at all.

*Disclaimer: Ephesians 4:11 which are authority gifts chosen and given to The True Church by Jesus Himself are exactly that – Gifts to the Church, gifts to equip The True Church to do the work of the ministry. Here is the challenge: this new wine; the miracle power of The Holy Spirit working in us, which is bubbly, powerful, a little vinegary, explosive has got to function and operate within a NEW Wineskin that is not dry but rather flexible and able to handle seemly random acts of the miraculous at any moment.

Here is what The True Church is all about:

Worship-prayer, fellowship, singing, did I say prayer, reading of God’s Word, the Lord’s Supper which is a full-group-meal (not a cracker & a little cup of juice) remembering Jesus until He calls us home.

Evangelism-sharing what Jesus has done for you, to a world that has no hope, water baptism (usually a dad baptising his children or new believers in the Kingdom).

Discipleship-through relationship, we will be teaching & training others to follow Jesus.

Leadership– “And He (Jesus) Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ,” Ephesians 4:11-12. Even though you will be connected to these gifts… God’s Household or Church is “…built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, with Christ Jesus himself as the chief cornerstone.” Ephesians 2:20 …every meeting will not have these gifts present.

“I (Paul) myself am convinced, my brothers and sisters, that you yourselves are full of goodness, filled with knowledge and competent to instruct one another.” Romans 15:14

Man, I get excited as I even think of this freedom!

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