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Transferring Skills Between Kingdoms

“All the cockiness and arrogance you’ve seen me use, God is now using for him.” Kanye West with Joel Osteen at Lakewood church.

God using my greatness for himself. This way of thinking is the foundation of ministry today in our Sunday-stage church system.

Whoever has or is discipling Kanye is deeply in error.

In a sentence: “Take your abilities and apply them to ministry, then proudly proclaim its God doing it. To the cheers of the kids.”

It makes God tiny and controllable. That’s what religion does. It brings God down and it creates haughty stage performers, singers, speakers, and even dancers.

Just because I get crowds of fans does not mean God is using me, now please set down the mic.

I know this because of the life and teachings Jesus and in the New Testament we see NOTHING like this, we actually see the opposite of this. What we see going on with Kanye and Joel Osteen is what we saw in the pagan Greek religions during Jesus’ day.

Sophists at Mars hill in Acts 17 – modern sermons

Stadium religious shows/ performances – the colesium

The most used apostles were first “killed off” for long amounts of time, even Paul was set aside from ministry for 14 years, as they were reshapen for later use.

Becoming a Christian is an absolute death to everything you think you are good at. Represented and symbolized by water baptism.

“You can lead huh? Ok go sit and lead no one for 2 decades.”

“You got money huh? Ok go give it all away I want none of it, do this first then I’ll talk to you.”

“You can sing and dance huh? well we ALL sing here, no mics, no stages, if you will follow me you’ll need to let that go.”

Then later (maybe much later) …Jesus may use us, IF he wants to, and exactly how he wants to.

Posting Daily Still Isn’t Quite Enough

I’ve been posting daily since September, I planned to stop at end of 2019 but maybe I’ll keep going.

I could post twice per day easily. I now understand what T. Austin Sparks meant when he taught of an “open heaven”, a constant seeing of Jesus Christ. After experiencing this, sermons seem almost comical. And I love sermons. They are nothing compared to the inner shining of Jesus Christ.

Periodically one leaks through to Facebook, I inspire a few who don’t read blogs, I encourage a few, and I tick a few off.

But that’s ok. Most of those people have already unfriended.

Daily writing is the only outlet I seem to have right now for letting out the light of Christ that is shining within. The early Christians met daily to share, constantly back and forth one by one, not a single sermon necessary. Must have been great.

One day I may be able to experience that with other Christians daily, or I pray at least my children will. It may come with persecution and violence but it is super worth it.

This is what all Christians can have and should be doing every day, face to face. Letting our light shine.

Wait Patiently on Your Ministry

The modern Christian system of religion I’ve been around usually DISCARDS OUR ELDERS in exchange for youthful excitement, way too quickly.

At many times I’ve listened to older pastors talking about their own ministry from their youth, it’s almost always regretful. For a variety of reasons.

We should be trained to wait on our ministries. To honor our elders even if we find them boring. Be bored then, it’s ok to be bored, control your emotions.

We should never rush in the new converts to the mic to keep them engaged…or to pretend it’s an exciting revival. 🤦‍♀️

So many passionate Christians I know jump ahead of God…and are intentionally trained to jump ahead of God and try to produce “fruit” out of their own ambition, drive, and sometimes impatient anger. That’s not good fruit.

Just wait… wait for it to happen naturally. Even if that means decades, and in another town.

We cannot force God … even if we are bored and impatient. When we do that we just fake it and cease to follow his lead, which is a major loss to us and our followers. But mostly it’s loss to Jesus himself (if anyone cares.)

If our ministry really is Jesus…it will shine out of us easily, and with others by our side.

If our ministry is just us and our religious boredom, He (and our older wiser self) will regret us not waiting.

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