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The Oneness of the Church with Jesus Christ

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On Sunday April 6th, 2025 I shared a message at Bethel Fellowship in Montour Falls entitled The Oneness of the Church with Jesus Christ. <—Click the link for the Facebook livestream video. This message is about part 40 of the gospel of the kingdom messages that I have been prayerfully writing and compiling and posting introductory YouTube videos for.

FOUNDATIONAL SCRIPTURE FOR THE MESSAGE:

HEBREWS 3:1 WHEREFORE, HOLY BRETHREN, PARTAKERS (PARTNERS, COMPANIONS) OF THE HEAVENLY CALLING, CONSIDER THE APOSTLE AND HIGH PRIEST OF OUR PROFESSION, CHRIST JESUS; 2 WHO WAS FAITHFUL TO HIM THAT APPOINTED HIM, AS ALSO MOSES WAS FAITHFUL IN ALL HIS HOUSE. 3 FOR THIS MAN WAS COUNTED WORTHY OF MORE GLORY THAN MOSES, INASMUCH AS HE WHO HATH BUILDED THE HOUSE HATH MORE HONOUR THAN THE HOUSE. 4 FOR EVERY HOUSE IS BUILDED BY SOME MAN; BUT HE THAT BUILT ALL THINGS IS GOD. 5 AND MOSES VERILY WAS FAITHFUL IN ALL HIS HOUSE, AS A SERVANT, FOR A TESTIMONY OF THOSE THINGS WHICH WERE TO BE SPOKEN AFTER; 6 BUT CHRIST AS A SON OVER HIS OWN HOUSE; WHOSE HOUSE ARE WE, IF WE HOLD FAST THE CONFIDENCE AND THE REJOICING OF THE HOPE FIRM UNTO THE END.[1]

[1] The Holy Bible: King James Version, Electronic Edition of the 1900 Authorized Version., (Bellingham, WA: Logos Research Systems, Inc., 2009), Heb 3.

In this passage the word partners from teh KJV would have been better translated as partners or companions. And it is translated as such in several other English translations.

THE CHURCH IS INTENDED TO ENJOY A ONENESS WITH JESUS CHRIST. AND THERE SHOULD NEVER BE A DISTANCE BETWEEN THE LIFE AND MINISTRY AND EXPERIENCES OF CHRISTIANS FROM THE LORD. THERE ARE MANY ASPECTS TO THIS ONENESS BUT IN THIS MESSAGE I ATTEMPTED TO POINT TO SIX OF THEM, THERE ARE MANY BUT FOR THIS MESSAGE ONLY 6, AND I ONLY HAD TIME FOR 4.

  • ONENESS IN LIFE – WE ARE TO SHARE IN THE DIVINE LIFE OF JESUS CHRIST THAT IS THE NATURE OF ETERNAL LIFE TO SHARE IN A GOD-KIND OF LIFE.
  • ONENESS IN PURPOSE – OUR PURPOSE AS BEARING THE IMAGE OF GOD IS SHARED WITH JESUS CHRIST
  • ONENESS IN SUFFERING – WE PARTAKE IN THE SUFFERING WITH JESUS CHRIST AND SUFFERING HAS A PURPOSE.
  • ONENESS IN HIS MINISTRY AND ANOINTING – WE HAVE A MINISTRY AND AN ANOINTING FOR A MINISTRY THAT IS UNIQUE AND SPECIALLY PREPARED FOR THE BODY OF CHRIST. A MINISTRY OF TESTIMONY AND A MINISTRY OF THE GLORY OF GOD IN THE FACE OF JESUS CHRIST. WE ARE TO REFLECT OUT THE GLORY OF GOD FROM THE FACE OF JESUS CHRIST
  • ONENESS IN DEATH AND BURIAL – NEXT TIME
  • ONENESS IN HIS HEAVENLY GLORY – NEXT TIME

IT IS ALWAYS A PRIVILEGE TO SHARE ANYTHING WITH THE BODY OF CHRIST. MY PRAYER IS THAT IT WAS EDIFYING FOR ANYONE WHO LISTENED, AND I APPRECIATE ANY AND ALL OPPORTUNITIES TO SHARE.

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That 5th Creativity Language

 

If you’ve not heard of the Five love languages you have to check out this book (Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman) these love languages explain how we need and prefer to be loved by our spouse.

  1. Words of Affirmation
  2. Quality Time
  3. Receiving Gifts
  4. Acts of Service
  5. Physical Touch

Understanding your own and your spouses love language can go a long way towards a better marriage.

In the summer I formulated four creativity languages. I am writing about this in my book Unleashing Creativity.  Through feedback from a beta tester and a feeling of incompleteness I realized there is a missing language.  For the past 6 months or so I’ve been pondering that fifth creativity language.  I know it is out there, but what is it.

Well due to my time at the platform conference, a conversation with Stu McLaren and a recent brainstorming session that I led. I realized what that 5th language is.  I am calling this 5th language it the innovating creator.  An innovating creator is a person with constant ideas around many or certain topics.

For example, there is a friend of mine who whenever we get together we talk about our ideas.  We both seem to have constant ideas and half-baked plans and sometimes money-making schemes.  Some of these ideas are great, some not so great, but almost never are either of us good at executing on them.  We have what Stu McLaren called idea diarrhea, I’ve had this for a long time.  What I realized in context of creativity that this is a strength, I know people who never have ideas and poo poo every idea they hear, those same people are excellent executors, excellent developing creators.

I work with some great scientists and engineers who have constant and ever evolving ideas.  Some of them become highly profitable products and processes, idea-diarrhea is valuable as long as there is someone able to execute on them.

The person with constant ideas, the 5th creativity language is the innovating creator.

All creativity can be grouped into one of the following 5 Creativity Languages, we can learn to understand and create more by understanding what our language(s) are:

  1. The Researching Creator
  2. The Artistic Creator
  3. The Developing Creator
  4. The Connecting Creator
  5. The Innovating Creator

I think that language terminology fits very well with creativity. Most people categorize creativity much too narrowly, most view creativity as only the artistic people around us, I think little is understood and recognized about the different forms of creativity.  Similar to the custom needs and wants for love between spouses everyone is able to and enjoys creating in a different ways.

Our creativity is not our personality, I think it goes deeper than our personality, our personality is one function of our creativity. Our creative language(s) are fundamental to how we create and how we give to the world in which we live.

What do you think your creative language might be?

PS…One more thing, it is official the creative languages test is now live and you can go here to purchase at an introductory price of $29, once you click the buy now button a link with a password will be sent to you to take the online test, the test results will be shared with you on the page, then a custom pdf write up will sent to your email address. Don’t miss out.

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Evaluating Your Ideas

Some people do the bulk of their creativity through the generation of ideas. The language of ideas is what they know and how they create.   Ideas constantly, they are not always good at execution but ideas come to their mind all the time. Some have called this idea-diarrhea, Stu McLaren referred to this recently at the platform conference and I realize that I’ve “suffered” from this condition.  Coming up with idea after idea before I’ve had a chance to significantly execute on any one of them.

Ideas may come easy, but to take the next step of execution we must learn to put our ideas through an evaluation process to screen out the bad ones, or at least the ones to not spend time on.

Every idea-person can learn to evaluate their ideas with the following three evaluating questions.

  1. Is the idea some thing that I can execute on? if the idea is not something I can make happen then I must learn to drop it or sell it, ideas are sold in the form of patents or trademarks, if you can’t do that then drop the idea or sit on it until you can execute. Write it down and wait on a day when perhaps you can execute.
  2. Is the idea based on your knowledge or on your ignorance? Many ideas occur because of the large body of knowledge that we have, knowledge often stimulates ideas.  But many other ideas are based on ignorance. We often have ideas due to things that we don’t fully understand. Ignorance-based ideas can be powerful, missing knowledge that would normally kill and idea prematurely in the mind of a person more knowledgeable, can stay alive and develop to the point of a great idea. I’ve seen this in action more than once, people who normally are not knowledgeable around a topic can innovate better than the expert.  In this situation others who understand more have already processed and often dismissed an idea long ago.
  3. Does the idea need further development? the answer to this question is almost always yes, sharing ideas is usually what gives them legs. Most ideas at the start are vague concepts that the person has little understanding around. Discussion of ideas and research either kills them or strengthens them.  It helps to have multiple people help with this process of idea evaluation.  After the initial idea phase, partnership with an execution person is often just the thing that your idea needs.

Use of these 3 idea-evaluating questions can help your idea and get it into the execution phase.

How many ideas and projects do you have sitting around waiting to be completed?

Sign up for email updates below, people have asked about my creative language test, if you are interested in this online test (similar to a personality test) it will be launched this week.

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