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Means To An End …Becoming The End

In business when we hire new people the goal is to train them to do a job independently and not need continual training and reminding, reassurance, and driving them hard, to do a particular job. Some jobs this takes many months, other jobs it takes just a day or two.

In discipleship the goal is the same. The training (teaching) is a means to an end.

The end is spiritual maturity and a person who listens to, cooperates with and responds to the life of Jesus Christ within.

That is the most precise definition one can muster because this life of God in a cooperating and listening person looks different in everyone.

The act of training and discipleship is not THE end in itself.

If you’ve been trained in seminary or elsewhere that the training is the end itself, it’s time to retrain. All is not lost.

Not even evangelism is a legitimate end to justify the forever sermonizing a community. Sometimes Jesus is not evangelizing, there is no autopilot that if we do abc that is success. No hearing cooperating and serving the life of Jesus is the end for all ministry.

The Sunday sermon is engineered to be the end, it is either:

1) intellectual religious entertainment among the thoughtful Christians.
or
2) Repeated reassurance I am going to heaven among the evangelicals.
or
3) Repeated reassurance I am living a life pleasing to God (and myself) among the rich Christians.
4) Repeated reassurance I can try harder and be better and solve my problems, among the poor Christians.

Just to name a few.

If that is your ministry philosophy, forever teaching but never bringing followers to a place of self sufficiency your philosophy is deeply flawed.

Even Jesus did not do that. Jesus sent his disciples out after and during the training time, (within 3 years of beginning) then after only 3 years he left them alone to the Holy Spirit.

Paul would take just a few months to teach his disciples then leave them to the Holy Spirit. Him Leaving was critical to their growth and dependence on the Spirit as a group.

How long have you been hearing sermons you agree with? 5, 10, 25, 50 years?

The Sunday sermon (which I have loved for years) is more like a Greek pagan philosophizing tradition, adopted for Sunday mornings.

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Inexplicable Loyalty

The loyalty and hope that so many place in our governments on both sides of the aisle is demonic.

It is often more than just misplaced confidence or contempt for evil on the other side. It is demonically inspired and motivated hope and trust.

It’s not demonic because the governments are so evil, some are, and some are not.

But There is an Inexplicable blind trust and confidence in human government, for absolutely no good reason.

It is a demonic loyalty because so many Christians now have no love and no hope in the control and power of Jesus Christ, so utterly dismissive of him are we to do anything, so indifferent are so many of us to him, and to what he wants!

So much so that it has become idolatry …to the point of hostility to him.

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The Root Cause of the Conspiracy

When one sets out to expose evil conspiracies by powerful people, it is not a very difficult task, because most of them are true. And most of them get exposed sooner or later. History books are full of them, but only a tiny percentage of people knew of them as they were happening.

Exposing the reason that conspiracies are true is much more helpful to people, than exposing details of each one. When we major on the details and the specifics, sometimes we are wrong and we lose credibility.

Instead drill down to the spiritual root cause of them all.

We can only understand conspiracies through the lens of Jesus Christ, only he explained the situation of the world and exposed Satan and undid his highest place in it. Jesus did not bother exposing the specific details of specific conspiracies. Which were constant and have been constant for centuries.

In Jesus Christ the conspiracies fizzle out and are exposed. And their victims are protected or vindicated.

But if we have issues with Jesus and are outside of him ..who knows? we are much more vulnerable.

It is Satan …who is the master conspirator.

He is also the master accuser, and the master manipulator.

“And I heard a loud voice in heaven, saying, “Now the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God and the authority of his Christ have come, for the accuser of our brothers has been thrown down, who accuses them day and night before our God.”
‭‭Revelation‬ ‭12:10‬ ‭ESV‬‬

And anyone loyal to him, by ignorance (most of human government) or by open stupidity. Necessarily becomes like him, conspirators, accusers, and manipulators.

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