Winning as part of God’s team
Differs from what it may seem
For we do not fight
To prove we are right
But rather, that YOU we esteem!
Tag Archives: unity
Poem: One Change
StandardWhat is one change we can make
That will cause all our hearts to un-break?
The smallest bit flip, like a lever
That makes “certain” what once was “never?”
Limerick: Under-Handed
StandardGod sometimes seems under-handed
Our suffering, as if He has planned it
It feels like our pain
Is just for His gain
And we must give what He demanded
Poem: Uncomfortably Grateful
StandardWe say that God is good
When we dine on comfort food
Much harder to confess
When we feel under duress
A Covenant for Renewal
StandardLord, unify your family, starting with mine.
Continue readingGrace Barriers, Reefed
StandardThe natural state of God
is Unison
The natural state of humans
is Division
We are divided from God
Each other and ourselves
And…
That is as it should be
Cross-Bridging: Mine the Gap
StandardWe need the Cross
As a Bridge
To the Other
To be a Self
Is to not be the Other
There must be a Gap
Between Me and You
So I know
Where you end
And I begin
Dream: Excess Baggage (On Christian Unity)
StandardOddly enough. I think this Dream is about unity in the Body of Christ. Continue reading
“The body of Christ arose as ONE mighty army”
StandardA prophetic glimpse into the coming time!
by John Dayalan Edwards
(My cousin, born in the US but now living in Chennai)
This past Sunday I was preaching on inner healing and deliverance in our Tamil service. The anointing of the Lord was present to heal inner wounds and hurts and the love and compassion of the Lord was abundant.
During that time, in a moment I felt as if I was one with the Lord as I prayed — it seemed like Jesus Himself was praying —from John 13:34,35 and John 17:21.
Continue readingWhole-y Pray-ers
Standard[aka Hegelian Prayer: Asking for God’s synthesis, not just our thesis]
God wants whole-y pray-ers
Continue readingThe Spirit Of Self (from Pure Glory)
Standard
by Apostle Gabriel Cross The Lord has revealed to me, the spirit of self, in the life of many believers, which is the spirit of division. One is divided against oneself, always second guessing themselves or what God is saying to them. The spirit of division, hinders and retards you or stops you from fulfilling […]
The Spirit Of Self — Pure Glory
TGR-S4E1: Healthy Submission
StandardWe kick off Season 4 of The Great Reset with the Biastes* on 1pm PDT Tuesday, Aug 25, 2020 by wrestling with questions of authority and submission, prompted by a viewer’s email.
Question
How should members of Christ’s Body best relate to internal and external human authorities and institutions, in order to continually increase God’s Kingdom?
TGR-S3E6: Re-Cognition of Discipleship
StandardWe wrap up this Season’s discussion of the Biastes Co-Discipleship Network on the 1pm PST Tuesday, Aug 11, 2020 episode of The Great Reset, by attempting to practice what we have been preaching.
Let me give you a new command: Love one another. In the same way I loved you, you love one another. This is how everyone will recognize that you are my disciples—when they see the love you have for each other.
John 13:34-35 MSG
Question: How can we ensure we are following Jesus, not men?
Perspective: Deliberately practice loving all His followers as Jesus has loved us.
Continue readingTGR-S3E5: Practicing Relational Unity
StandardWe pivot our discussion of the Biastes Co-Discipleship Network, for the 1pm PST Tuesday, Aug 4, 2020 episode of The Great Reset, to take on the challenge of creating relational unity.
Two Questions
- What about the Body of Christ most breaks the heart of God?
- What is the impossible thing that, if we were able to do it, would change everything?
Perspective
Continue readingMay they all be one, as you, Father, are in me and I am in you. May they also be in us, so that the world may believe you sent me.
John 17:21
TGR-04: Loving The Other
StandardJoin us on Zoom or Facebook to co-create the video of this episode at 10 AM PST on Friday, April 24th, 2020 AD.
- Question: How do we love like Jesus?
- Perspective: I will love the “Other” as Jesus loved me.
- Premise: Love is a muscle that strengthens through deliberate practice
- Inspiration: “I only start counting when it starts hurting.” — Muhammad Ali
TGR-03: Wholly Broken
StandardQuestion
What does God want:
- Of us
- For Us
- From Us
Perspective
My answer: Whole-I-ness (Holiness/Wholeness)
- A whole world
- Of whole people
- Loving all of the one God
Christianity Beyond, Draft 1
StandardBringing Heaven to Earth. One Cross at a Time.
[Update: see my background thinking in Draft 2]
Christianity Beyond is a movement of ordinary people who are learning how to make the same kind of extraordinary impact as the Jesus they love. We honor all the ways people have sought to follow Jesus in the past and present, but dare to go beyond that in order to demonstrate to a watching world just how good and worthy Jesus is.
LEAD! A.11 Christ’s Body
StandardIn Which We Become the Church, As We Grow Into Christ Our Head Via His Gifts
Continuing the theme of Sanctification, we explore how we are discipled into the name of Christ through His body — the Father’s principle vehicle for forming His Kingdom, by His Spirit. Specifically, we see how the fact that we serve One God requires us to worship Him as One Church.
[Note: I am now using the New King James Version for my interlinear; hopefully this will increase the readability.]
Radically Happy 