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Tell My People vs. I’ll Tell Them Myself

When God gave his only son to the world he abandoned the ministry of finding certain select people to “tell my people” this or that.

He basically said “never mind Holy man, I’ll tell them myself and when I finish with them, if they follow me, they will all hear my voice, because my sheep hear me.”

And hearing him is like a fountain bubbling up from within.

So now when we hear Holy men telling their sheep…or even implying that “God said tell my people” we should get a major red flag! 🚩

Because they don’t understand the nature of the church, they don’t understand (or care about) what it means to be led of the spirit and they’ve taken it upon themselves to speak FOR God to people. God is speaking to us another way now and it’s much better.

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Hierarchy Is Divisive

For years I’ve heard business leaders tout servant leadership. They try it for a while then give up.

One cannot be a servant leader with positional authority over someone.

What happens when they disagree?… on several things? The leader must get his way and the follower must yield. It’s a one way relationship.

This is the opposite of service. If the leader yields often he becomes seen as a weak leader and/or not a lot gets accomplished.

Positional leaders who pretend to be servant leaders, (with meek and kind dispositions) have been misled. They must periodically cease serving and direct the blind sheep (who may or may not really be blind), they must get there way, they must turn away, shut down or send certain people packing, in order to lead.

The only solution offered to this is, “leave and go find a servant leader you can submit to”…LOL think about it, it’s silly.

Hierarchy is Very Divisive

If the church clings to the worn out tradition of hierarchy (like a 4 year old to his bottle) a lot of activity might happen but we have ceased to follow Jesus Christ.

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The Real Followers of Christ

Followers Not Groupies

Most of the followers of Jesus mentioned in scripture followed not because of promises of victory. Not because of promises of overcoming circumstances, and not because of promises of health and wealth. There was something else that created real followers of Jesus Christ.

Those crowds of groupies had left him long before they had to make a commitment to follow. Those groupies are not useful to build his body on earth. Once they experienced or heard something hard they stopped following him, they took their blessing and went home. Jesus needs disciples, not groupies, to build his house on earth, he needs those who will respond to the command “follow me”. He needs those empty vessels cleaned out by death and repentance through the ministry of John the Baptist.

The disciples of Christ followed after Jesus because they got a glimpse of him, not of his goodie bag. These real followers of Jesus were not scared away by trouble. The trouble that Jesus sometimes pulled out of his bag was not a major issue in comparison to the magnitude of him.

They saw Jesus Christ in a spiritual way, they saw God in him. They beheld the extreme brightness of his glory, the glory of God himself. They later got to see him again, alive in themselves and in other people after he became a life-giving spirit. They realized he is the new creation they were hoping for, they knew he himself is the resurrection they look forward to. That alone secured their devotion and commitment and love forever. In good and bad, in sickness and health, in persecution and comfort whether confused by him or understanding everything.

IF we can see him

Today it seems most ministries assume the crowds are self-centered and just wanting ease and blessings. Relying on that is the foundation of what it is they build. They offer a lifetime of self-help tips in the form of ‘sermons’. But I think this generation is really no different from past generations. We like every just need to see him as he really is, the future. It is in our DNA to respond to him IF (and that is a massive life-changing IF) we see him as he really is. The death of sinful humanity in Adam and the new creation spreading over the earth and the cosmos.

If we can get a glimpse of the magnitude of the immensity of Jesus Christ and the future that he has. The eternal; and infinitely growing universe that is his kingdom. If we can get that glimpse of him and if others could just get that beautiful view of him within us. Then the generations would not abandon him anymore, they would flock. They would run to him in tears, regardless of the trouble following him brought to them. They would not be self-centered by default anymore, seeing no alternative. They would become real followers of Jesus Christ after seeing his glory.

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