One reader’s Word of Experience in Building Christian Foundations
Comments from a Reader:
Here is a Guest Post by one of our Readers. Interesting how this fits with our topic of being a servant or a son?
“I am now 75 and a half years of age. From when I can remember, church was something you attended along with others in a building. The gatherings and buildings seemed to separate the people into 2 distinctive groups: one called Catholics, the other anyone who was not a catholic. Those not catholic were dived into many separate groups. The inference was that church was a building where you conducted services.
“The day came when I had a living encounter with the voice of Jesus, John 10:27. This made it clear the human body is his dwelling place and I was anointed – ordained John 15:16 – to go and bear fruit as I obeyed Jesus voice.
“The first people to come into the same relationship I did met together in homes mostly around a meal, Acts 20:7. As you read many of the letters written to churches, it was addressed to the church in your home or the church in a locality. The church was only divided by either which home you gathered in, or the city or the country, no such names as we read about today.
“What divides is what man has created, namely a name, a bank account and a constitution or what is known as a mission statement. All the leadership of the early church was a function – not an office. It was the anointing people submitted to and there was respect, not one above the other.
“We read that the greatest among was to serve, not rule over. To Rule means to bring joy, peace and contentment, nothing to do with control.
“We are told to go into all the world and be salt to flavour and light to see by, not to invite people into a building called a church. Revelation 3:20 is an interesting verse where we find Jesus outside the church door knocking and inviting people to come out to him and he is on the outside.
“Today so easy to play church and have no inner relationship with The Lord Jesus by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. For 11 years my wife and I were full time ministering to young people. We were teaching what we understood on how to become a Christian and live as a Christian.
“One day my wife prayed, “Lord your pay is lousy! We are doing all this work for you and you do not pay a decent wage.”
“He replied as a loud thought in her mind “I never asked you to do this.”
“She replied:”You are right and I quit”.
“To know is to be in an intimate relationship, to be in communication, to have fellowship, to expose one’s inner most being. This can only take place in a relationship where there is no judgment and no unforgiveness, the only one who can do that is Jesus.”
If you are interesting in some of Roy’s other observations and teachings, we’ll doing a series to explain his thoughts more. Catch us then.
May these words of wisdom reach your heart and bring you peace and freedom.
Susanne Fengler, Blog Author
www.christianfoundations.jesus-treeoflife.info
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