Saturday, March 3, 2007

What the House Church Movement has to say to the Institutional Church:

"YOU CAN DO IT"
models don't matter
love is the key
The Spirit gives us the power...
success robed in failure is the trademark of Jesus
God means it for good when things go "wrong".
weakness is our badge...
sorrow our door...
obscurity our bridge...

people are people...
if you ditch yours now, to have it easier somewhere else, you're going to find the exact same stuff or worse waiting for you. Otherwise, you'll have it easy and never get what jesus was trying to give you NOW and HERE...

when you hang in there and stay,
repenting and pressing into God...
sometimes its your job to lose your job
Fighting the good fight can take you through a few fields
George Washington 3:6 record
that's right. GW only won 3 of his 9 battles.
forged in the fires of failure...

valley forge. no kidding.



the truth is out there
joining Jesus, outside the camp
this is why a lot of the small group and house ministry is so small. Joining with those who call on the Lord out of a pure heart can pare down the guest list...
it shouldn't be small because we "sell" small.


A sad thing is that there are people who see the Church of Jesus as divided by Models.
They are listening to "House Church". "House Church" thanks you for your attention, yet desires to point you in the direction of the Source. You know? Lisetening to the Spirit and receiving prophetic, anointed revelation...

I would be happy to see the conferences shut down, if pastors were locking themselves away, daily, seeking in prayer and fervent pursuit of God's FACE...

if the deepest and truest desire of pastors around this nation wer to see the Lord's face, we'd face a great, unified outbreak of the Holy Spirit... Spiritual Christianity that would be relevant to JEsus. He'd understand our liturgy so much better if our lives and homes were places of obedience to him...

there would be an incredible, universal unity in the Church. We'd all be about the same business. We'd all be about the same Saviour's business. We'd all be about the same message...

the same Spirit would be at work among our people, the whole time...

What would I share from "My Movement"?
That we should all consider the Ancient Paths.
that we should all 'set our hearts on Pilgrimage (ps. 84)
Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them.
Who passing through the valley of Baca make it a well; the rain also filleth the pools.
They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God.
O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer: give ear, O God of Jacob. Selah.
Behold, O God our shield, and look upon the face of thine anointed.
For a day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of wickedness.

"...are the ways of them." is often translated, "who has set his heart on pilgrimage..."

My movement?
Not house church
that's simply one of many disposable methods. presently, it is just as false and farsical as anything else, when it is done in pride and without love.

My Movement is ancient and present. It is eternal and not of this world.

...talkin' some smack from the 'hood with Jesus.

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