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ONE OF THE PASSIONS OF MY LIFE, I MAY BE SAYING THIS… For the Rest of My life.

I think my social media friends may be a little sick of hearing this but….from a biblical perspective Jesus intended that church meetings would be carried out by every member. Christians who love one another, cooperating, working together, one by one, taking turns, men, women, youths, extroverts allowing others to speak, introverts brave enough to speak up…all with sober intention prophesying (which is simply declaring the excellencies of Jesus Christ) .

Not church meetings headed and orchestrated by professional Christians. (DONT GET ANGRY, I DO LOVE PASTORS, THEY ARE WONDERFUL PEOPLE).

BUT Jesus intended that the AUDIENCE of his church, be the principalities and powers, and even the demons who control the governments of the earth (some who would be changed forever, others who would persecute).

Jesus also intended that non-Christians, who happen to wander into a meeting, would be the audience of the Christians in action (Christians who had been discipled and trained to gather as Jesus intends.) Jesus never intended church meetings involving the vast majority of Christian attenders… as perpetual, life-long, audience members. NO, maybe a few months for training, maybe periodically for special teachings. But not regularly as we see today.

Jesus also intended that he orchestrate the meetings personally. He is able to do this because of the Holy Spirit. And He has direct access to every member. The body of Christ is such a beautiful thing and it is just waiting to be mobilized and the veil taken off from over it.

IT’S NOT NORMAL BECAUSE WE DIDNT LEARN IT FROM CHRIST!

The world will change in a massive way when the church grasps this fact.

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What Has Been the Culmination of Socialism?

The hope and dream of most socialist and communist leaders (Karl Marx in the 1840s) was a more equal society. One where wealth and power was dispersed among the people, the proletariat and not concentrated with the nobles at the top.

Fast forward almost 200 years later and Vladimir Putin is the culmination and the glory of socialism in Russia. A lone thug, a violent king, the thing the early socialists/ communists wanted to remove.


Isn’t it ironic? I think it is very ironic.


They fail not because it’s an entirely bad idea, not because intentions were not good. Not because they are fundamentally evil or unintelligent. Karl Marx and his contemporaries were extremely learned and intellectual people. But they fail for the same reasons all political movements fail, because they have excluded and snubbed Jesus Christ. Marx was openly atheist. Most communist countries have been oppressive to Christians and sometimes all religion. So, they become what they once resisted, it is the fate of human government in every form, snub Him and you’re undone, irrelevant, all you have after him is the varied forms violence if you want to remain in control.


Hitler was the culmination and glory of socialism in Germany.


Many examples in Venezuela, Cuba, soviet era violent thugs.

There is both an open and subversive movement of socialists and even communists in the US. This movement is not a Christian movement, people who claim to be Christian may be in these movements but they rarely if ever use their Christianity as a reason for the things they are striving for. Fast forward, who will be the culmination and glory of socialism in the US? Will the democrats, with republican enabling, continue us down that mentally ill path? Do we really need to experience almost 200 years of violence to get to that person?

Start to lose public support (cater to your base) they switch to whatever it takes to hold onto power. Then when censorship, vote cheating, manipulation of race tension, and political imprisonments stop working.

It is open war, stealing, killing, assassinations, and destroying. They do as their spiritual leader leads them to do. Today’s (Feb-March 2022) prime example of that is Putin’s invasion of his neighbor Ukraine.


Socialism / communism is not solved by political action and violence. It’s a spiritual condition, Jesus Christ is the cure. Not church activities and not organizing for certain policy and not moralizing from the pulpits!

But the preaching of Jesus Christ, and much more importantly the dominance and headship of Jesus Christ within churches, and among Christians. Read more about the dominance and headship of Jesus Christ… <click here >

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Please Don’t Start Another Church

Have you heard this attitude in Christian leaders starting a church?

“I can do it better than the former generation”
or
“I can do it better than those doing it now”.

-unspoken attitude of local church leader

I think these are the worst possible motivations a church leader/ planter can take.


You can spot this a mile away peppered through sermons, if it’s a young pastor it’s about the former generation (likely daddy issues), if it a middle-aged pastor it’s about the other churches (competitive self-centered kingdom building).


If it’s a mature pastor that attitude has likely been beaten out by reality and by the Lord himself.

If you are an evangelical Christian leader who thinks like this, Please Don’t Start Another Church because 1) it’s not true, you cannot do it better, you can do it differently, and 2) even if you can do it better, please don’t, the body of Christ has enough of that. At least in this neck of the woods.

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