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The Real Community

I want to share a few observations about Spiritual vs. Natural Community

It is pretty clear that community is important to the Lord, the New Testament makes a strong case that God wants Christians in community with one another.  Jesus said that the world would know that he is still alive by the love of his people for one another.

I have come to experience community founded on Jesus Christ and it is very unique. When he is on the lips of every person freely and it is not forced or awkward. When the community does not have some extroverts dominating or introverts shrinking back into silence. When we know little to nothing of one another except Jesus Christ.

When he is the center of all members in a group and not one aspect of our inner lives (that we are embarrassed to vocalize.) This is where real spiritual community is found, all other communities are imitations.

When a group can get to that they’ve accomplished something spiritually real in the earth.

But, when community is founded on others things… like common beliefs, common admiration for a certain leader, family ties, common loyalties, common stages in life. It lacks something vital. Don’t get me wrong community is almost always nice. But If our Christian communities have a few dominant with a crowd of passive members.

Something is lacking, the lord is not getting his way among that group. And it is just a natural earthly, community.

Whether we realize it or not we all crave the real community in and around Jesus Christ.

The ecclesia of Jesus Christ is the real community and it is here in seed form, it is growing and expanding and will one day displace all the kingdoms of the earth. While I am here I want to do everything in my power to usher it into the earth. Whether it gets me killed or applauded, I must make way for him and his community. For his body in the earth, his presence which overshadows all others.

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A Sure Sign That Jesus is Lord

One of the signs that Jesus gave for himself being the Christ was that the gospel of the kingdom was being preached to the poor.

Of all people? the poor?, didn’t he know there was good reason they were poor?

There is a reason that Jesus went to the poor, and it was much deeper that he was benevolent.

The poor don’t do well with our money system. Some of us see our money system as a measure of goodness, the rich often see their richness as a sign they are good. But our wealth and richness is not necessarily a sign we are good.

It is however a sign we know how to and are willing to function in Satan’s money-based (rat race) economy.

Jesus has an entirely different system altogether. His ecclesia (church) is not to be founded upon money. The church that has at its foundation a huge budget and fat portfolio, and an impressive benefits package is by definition a worldly thing. It’s way of organizing is more aligned with Satan than with Jesus Christ. They may love Jesus but for all practical purposes he is likely to essentially just be a mascot of the church.

The ecclesia of Jesus Christ is made up of the poor (being led of the spirit of Jesus) helping the poor and it crumbles the mightiest and richest empires on earth.

Rich churches of today are very often spiritually irrelevant, they have their reward already and it is their money, and the things, and the great people that their budget is buying them.

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By The Sweat Of Our Brows

Success in all of living on earth whether its through businesses, grade schools, universities, governments, and religious organizations require hard work. A great deal of focused hard work. By the sweat of our brows, we labor and we make it work.

BUT, this is not so with the church (better translated the ecclesia).

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