Welcome Message
Thanks for dropping by. Take a look around, sip on your coffee or tea and explore, read what interests you. I trust that you will find that the posts are about you and your journey. May you find confirmation here for things God has already dealt with you about in your spirit, even if it doesn't fit into the religious mold of denominational churches of our day.
The Community of the Redeemed that Jesus established was never meant to be a denominated religious building where people are governed by rules and regulations in order to conform to some denomination's constitution and bylaws to be considered as a "Child of God". Rather, Jesus has invited you into a transforming relationship with Him that allows you to share in His ever revealing purpose for the community of humanity as His character, love and grace develop in you and you allow Him to work through you in demonstrating His love and compassion.
Being a follower of Christ is meant to be a relational journey, a relationship with God and with people, not a religion of do's and dont's or shouldas and couldas!
It is about helping people discover the joy and freedom of relationship with the Godhead. Jesus' death on the cross was to prepare for each of us a dwelling place in the heart of His loving Father and prepare our vessels for Him to abide in. It was to free us to be involved in the kind of relationship that shares His life with other believers and with the world by being the Community of the Redeemed in daily living.
A personal relationship with God is not just words to describe a "Christian" religion, but the very way He has called us to live. It is having healthy relationships with other believers as well as sinners. Many today think fellowship is nothing more than attending the same meeting, but it is meant to be so much more. It is people relating to one another in His love and allows the ministry of Jesus to flow between them on a daily basis an not just meeting time. It means developing a relationship with sinners, so that as they see God's character expressed through us they will be faced with the opportunity to know the love of God for themselves.
For that to happen we need to live in and understand the freedom that Father has provided us through Jesus. Only as we live in His love and and grace can we even begin to experience freedom and the power of the life of Christ in us to help people discover the freedom that He offers.
Christ provides freedom:
1. To live in the love of the loving Father, free to respond to Him as He desires, even though you will make mistakes now and then.
2. To walk without guilt or condemnation. Recognize that transformation is a life-long process that Jesus works in us through our security in His love, not something we do for Him out of obligation.
3. To be real. To feel what you feel; to ask what you need to ask, to be wrong where you are wrong, and to extend that same freedom to others.
4. To be liberated from accountability to human leaders who, whether they realize it or not, usurp the authority of Jesus in the church by telling others what they think He would have them do and how He would have them live.
5. To love other brothers and sisters freely, serving them the way Jesus leads you and not trying to conform to expectations of what a 'good Christian' should do.
6. To live free of bitterness and hurt, even where religious institutions (and those who run them) have failed you. None of us are perfect, so there can be no end to the kindness and forgiveness we can extend each other.
People, we need to stop trying to earn or seek God’s blessing, and instead put our intimate friendship with him above everything else we might want from God. Do we want His blessings more than we desire to draw near to Jesus?
You are also invited to leave comments whether positive or negative.
Just click on the topic of your choice under the Topic Archive to go to the post of your choice.
The Community of the Redeemed that Jesus established was never meant to be a denominated religious building where people are governed by rules and regulations in order to conform to some denomination's constitution and bylaws to be considered as a "Child of God". Rather, Jesus has invited you into a transforming relationship with Him that allows you to share in His ever revealing purpose for the community of humanity as His character, love and grace develop in you and you allow Him to work through you in demonstrating His love and compassion.
Being a follower of Christ is meant to be a relational journey, a relationship with God and with people, not a religion of do's and dont's or shouldas and couldas!
It is about helping people discover the joy and freedom of relationship with the Godhead. Jesus' death on the cross was to prepare for each of us a dwelling place in the heart of His loving Father and prepare our vessels for Him to abide in. It was to free us to be involved in the kind of relationship that shares His life with other believers and with the world by being the Community of the Redeemed in daily living.
A personal relationship with God is not just words to describe a "Christian" religion, but the very way He has called us to live. It is having healthy relationships with other believers as well as sinners. Many today think fellowship is nothing more than attending the same meeting, but it is meant to be so much more. It is people relating to one another in His love and allows the ministry of Jesus to flow between them on a daily basis an not just meeting time. It means developing a relationship with sinners, so that as they see God's character expressed through us they will be faced with the opportunity to know the love of God for themselves.
For that to happen we need to live in and understand the freedom that Father has provided us through Jesus. Only as we live in His love and and grace can we even begin to experience freedom and the power of the life of Christ in us to help people discover the freedom that He offers.
Christ provides freedom:
1. To live in the love of the loving Father, free to respond to Him as He desires, even though you will make mistakes now and then.
2. To walk without guilt or condemnation. Recognize that transformation is a life-long process that Jesus works in us through our security in His love, not something we do for Him out of obligation.
3. To be real. To feel what you feel; to ask what you need to ask, to be wrong where you are wrong, and to extend that same freedom to others.
4. To be liberated from accountability to human leaders who, whether they realize it or not, usurp the authority of Jesus in the church by telling others what they think He would have them do and how He would have them live.
5. To love other brothers and sisters freely, serving them the way Jesus leads you and not trying to conform to expectations of what a 'good Christian' should do.
6. To live free of bitterness and hurt, even where religious institutions (and those who run them) have failed you. None of us are perfect, so there can be no end to the kindness and forgiveness we can extend each other.
People, we need to stop trying to earn or seek God’s blessing, and instead put our intimate friendship with him above everything else we might want from God. Do we want His blessings more than we desire to draw near to Jesus?
You are also invited to leave comments whether positive or negative.
Just click on the topic of your choice under the Topic Archive to go to the post of your choice.
