I dedicate this here post to Mr, Thomas Spellman, (thats 'Toe-maas' people)
an encourager in the community and a discerning heart.
The BEAUTIFUL HEARTS of children and singles must be supported...
as we have been 'commanded' to do at the beginning of the
'Way of Life' and Lovingkindness-Family that Jesus started with his Eternal Spirit...!
Rav Sha'ul (Paul) declares that he was given EXACTLY the same 'guidelines for the new 'mobile temple'....(the church at large) as the 12 were. That was 'freaky amazing' to evv - rybody. They, the 12... were taught by Jesus DIRECT across 40 days in his resurrection form. (Luke 24. Acts 1. Matthew 28. Galatians 1&2) He (the 'super-rabbi' that was knocked out by Christ direct from the spirit realm) was taught direct 'by the SPIRIT' precisely the same details as the 12. The 12 were given actual fine details, reasonable to follow... about how humans are to function as a 'God connected Family'. Then far away from them, completely seperately this 'religious extremist terrorist rabbi' gets exactly precisely the very same 'guidelines for humans' direct from Jesus. Only after 3 years and then 17 years do they compare all the details and find them precisely the same. Amazing. Truly amazing. Do you care? Are you interested? If you're not, please depart and come back when you get curious. Ive been doing this research for 21 years for YOUR benefit, because i hate watching people being 'misled', and 'stuck' in half-true principles and practices. Being surrounded by many nice 'church practices' that were missing truly essential elements of Jesus' teaching have caused indescribable ruin and hurt and tragedy for me across 58 years of my life.
Going on a way that is 'pointless' or that brings 'bad results' is a BIG RISK in American Christianity.
(Psalm 127, 1 Corinthians 15 v1&2. 'in vain' means... 'with no benefit, fruitless, pointless, empty activity')
Jesus is not a fairy tale, boy-ee.
Jesus is GOD and FRIEND and gives HIS SPIRIT THAT BEATS DEATH ITSELF to ragged ordinary humans.
YOU, for instance. ...smiles...
In front of the Veil in the Temple there was
The table with the showbread - MESSIAH - bread from heaven
The lampstand - HOLY SPIRIT - God the paraclete.
The bowl / altar of incense - SINGLE ONES among us cheerfully dedicated to being 24 hr, dedicated SERVANTS. Wards of the gathered peoples. For the purpose of prayer & care & emergency services to the families. Under the direction of the elders to care for the saints. Bringing love back into marriages. Being vigilant over homes where dark spirits have tricked their way in. Regardless of the ageless concerns over 'labels & stations', (is she a deacon or a pastor? do you call a congregational leader a pastor of souls if there is no regular confession and communion going on?) We have in the early church the example of a flowing, caring set of dedicated single-ones. Not cloistered 'monks and nuns'. No! But rather, 'favorite aunties and uncles', fluidly ministering to the souls who live in public confession and communion with one another.
THESE are the two grossly missing services of the 'church at large'.
The 'maintenance of honesty' in 'family groups'..
and
The exaltation and utilization of single peoples as a 'power ministry' (not bound in marriage)
Not formalized, institutionalized agents, but 'Family style servants in our midst'.
...it is written!
I want you to be free from the concerns of this life. An unmarried man can spend his time doing the Lord’s work and thinking how to please him. But a married man has to think about his earthly responsibilities and how to please his wife. His interests are divided. In the same way, a woman who is no longer married or has never been married can be devoted to the Lord and holy in body and in spirit. But a married woman has to think about her earthly responsibilities and how to please her husband. I am saying this for your benefit, not to place restrictions on you. I want you to do whatever will help you serve the Lord best, with as few distractions as possible. 1 Corinthians 7.
(we are very very 'distracted' peoples already in america. TV. hobbies. sports. shopping. movies.)
I deeply deeply fear the consequences of pushing aside the original 'Way of Life' as our Master and Brother set it forth. We are 'distorted' by church-traditions, and 'western church' and 'worship center church' that does not support 'honesty meal celebrations' in the homes to keep 'the Giants' of hidden evils out of our lives. Many of our evils are almost undetectable. Isaiah 5:8 declares that 'Living alone in your little castle-territory' is bringing you 'woe-evil-bad future'!!
There was MORE 'underground church' going on across Asia and India than there was church in the 'Roman religion'. They stopped meeting in homes in the Roman empire. The new 'militarized church and state' rose up with big public meetings in 'roman forums'. Then there was the nasty demons of 'we are RIGHT' and we are the 'safe flock' and the 'good, pure lineage', with no room for visiting 'truthspeakers' or true 'sent ones'. (2 Corinthians 11. the 'super apostles' reject the visiting 'servant - apostles in rags') In Rome the blatant 'cutting out' of the other branches of the faith in the so called 'councils' under roman rule was evil and atrocious. This happens all across ever church now. Divisions. Wiping out essential parts of the faith!
The 'Way' of the gathered 'devoted ones' in the western church made a marked change from the 200's to the 400's. Across Asia and India there was no 'Big-church that began officially persecuting the pure-hearts'. There was no 'church and state'. Ha! Just torture, persecution and slaughter from 'the state' in regions, pockets and zones of the world. The activity of Ultra-wicked Theodosius (seach and STUDY) was such an ugly ugly thing, that i find it difficult to peer into the 400's and later seasons of the western church.
My purpose for 'visiting churches as led by the Spirit of Lovingkindness and affection'??
To ...find truth that helps and protects and keeps my precious family and constituents and communion group safe and at peace with God and humans. I KNEW things were very very wrong in the churches of my childhood. So i had to 'find a way' for others to be 'safe and whole'.
I do NOT want my precious ones bowing down to the insanity of 'top down' hierarchical and anti-christ behavior, in church. Behaviour which 'seems okay', but that has been 'eviscerated' of the 'Holy of Holies' of the church, which is open 'family style' worship and celebration complete with 'honesty times' led by the men... Courageous, Celebrating, Regular, Family-Confession in a closed setting. And then 'the meal that heals' 'the food of heaven', for those willing to truly die for Christ-our-friend.
These things are instructed by our Eternal Friend... for our health and not our 'harm'!
The opportunity of a single person being added to the 'list of widows and single ones' as a specific 'non - -stop' servanthood group is ....such an extreme benefit to families, that i can scarcely contain my emotions and convictions about this essential part of the church gathering that, this DIRE NEED that Jesus declared that we have, for 'dedicated singles' with childlike hearts. Who flat-out INSPIRE the Children to live like Jesus / With Jesus. Singles. operating like Yeshua and the men and women in the first part of Luke chapter 8.
THIS is the service of single peoples that would have gathered in my own mom in after incest in her family... in order to joyfully help her see the sin in the scripture. see it as 'common to humans' and restore and refresh her... and even seek the HolySpirit for a sweet spouse, to 'supplant' the wrong with the fresh and good and wholesome marriage bed. (or the singleness and devotion) -Remember that the Apostle says 'i encourage them to marry' !! This is an elders job.
...again, my own mothers story... a good scholar. A graduate of Duke College of Nursing. The organist and pianist at Lutheran Church.
Pregnant with me after poorly handled 'incest tragedy' in youth.. Extreme promiscuity before me, the 'unwanted pregnancy'. Unknown father! In THIS life situation my mom would have been saved.. i repeat my mom would have been SAVED.. If what Jesus had taught us to have in place were there.
What?? 1- the 'honesty times' in the home settings. 2- the SINGLES MINISTRY caring and serving my moms tragedies.
If you are really serious about 'Slaying the Giants' of bad behavior that you have in your life, and the 'Maintenance Atmosphere' of times of regular honesty is just NON-EXISTENT, your life will probably be a 'lonely fight'. This is not good, and this is not fair. This is why many men do not come to church. They feel 'something is missing' and something is really 'fake', but they cant put their finger on it. So they just leave, disinterested, feeling 'something wrong' in their guts.
We, the elders of the church are responsible to put 'maintenance' in place. We must have a 'fierce demand' on ourselves to be men who 'LEAD with our personal struggles' in a way that gives our constituents something to follow. We learn by example. Not so much by 'instruction'. You can 'instruct' all you want, but they will imitate your behavior. So if you 'the elder' are not providing an example of honesty about yourself, they WILL NOT admit their faults. Nope.
Merely reviewing the 'tragedies and warnings', sin-lists, consequences etc... does some good. But it will also easily bring hopelessness, frustration, shame, depression, and self loathing. Why? Because a 'path of maintenance' is not being LED by the elders. Plain and simple. The Government of Christ is a government of sacrifical courage and lovingkindness. The Love of God and the promise of heaven are nice topics, and pleasant to review. It is essential for us to review the truth of the 'bad human nature' and 'bad society' and 'unclean spirit afflictions'. these are true and sobering topics. As a matter of fact this is the beginning of the 'good news', that we can be FREED from the consequences of the evil in our human family!
But with no 'street - style home -style maintenance', in a semi-institutional setting that feels a bit like a 'school atmosphere', that i 'have to go to' there is a 'brutality' to the soul that happens. And it is a brutality that seems like 'tough love' but is honestly 'against Jesus' and against 'wholeness-sozo-salvation', because the 'harder work of honesty - maintenance' is not in place! Buck up! Just say no! Change your behavior! These are words that actually can bring depression and suicide spirits; when there is no 'servanthood and maintenance' in place on the family and tribal level. Do you look at the 'forced honesty' in Leviticus? Do you understand the 'honesty commands' that press on the two genders in Numbers 30, Leviticus 15?
What about the love of God that says 'i can surround your first sex-experience and make you guys a sweet marriage??
“If a man seduces a virgin who is not engaged to be married and sleeps with her, he must pay the marriage price and marry her. If her father absolutely refuses to give her away, the man must still pay the marriage price for virgins.
How can we be successful in 'freedom from negative behavior' if we are not being given regular times to 'admit your faults' in a gathered family setting. This is Jesus' command to us. There is no new sin under the sun. Cant make up a 'new one'. If we are to have power over spirits, and we cant even talk about our common 'wrong behavior' like its some big huge embarrassment, thats really bad. The demons could probably run us just because of that cowardice. it is sad but true to say, that in my 21 years of touring church, the men that i have 'sat under' and 'submitted to' do not have the guts to institute this command of HIGHEST importance for us. Maintaining honesty on a family level. Elder and younger. Male and female.
Are we more afraid of slander? or of facing Jesus' disapproval on the final day.
(Even the dumb slander voices God can turn into 'family honesty love victories'! ha..! )
The single ones.. The single - ministry-servants, who have been made the servants of ALL the church - members 'have the time' to sit close and restore souls.
I could go on. But i beseech you to imagine 'church' to hold the benefit of REGULAR family 'chavurah' group confession. That is 'real church'. The 'Holy of Holies' that Jesus set up for us is Celebration of the HolySpirit, in a closed setting, where we lay down the way we have been 'disappointing God' and eat the food of heaven.
JESUS SAYS... 'the single peoples that have decided to be 'Servants of Souls' for the rest of their lives are your 'front guard'. Your special weapons and tactics people. Not to keep the 'worship center operations going' but to be IN THE HOMES AND LIVES of actual peoples who are in 'confession and communion with one another'
The 'Children and Single people' are to be 'surrounded by the married ones' to declare "YOU GUYS ARE THE MOST LIKE JESUS AMONG US...!"
We have been 'robbed' of the constant ministering to our families and souls that comes from the real 'Jesus freak, high on the HolySpirit single ones' . Visualise them just 'in our midst', in our homes, with our children, helping us to face our tragedies right in our homes. In our midst... under the direction of loving elders.
WE HAVE A 'SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY'
to the children in our community who are fatherless. And to those 'pitched out of marriage' by death or divorce.
it is written...
“You must not exploit a widow** or an orphan. If you exploit them in any way and they cry out to me, then I will certainly hear their cry. 24 My anger will blaze against you, and I will kill you with the sword. Then your wives will be widows and your children fatherless. **and i add, "or a divorced woman who does not have a fathers house to move back to."
this is NOT just a casual statement. We as 'the church' are being hammered by Gods displeasure in more ways than we can see. We are to be a 'home & family vessel'. Servants to the 'ditched kids' and 'ditched women'. We are to respect single people among us with deep respect and honor... as being 'a bit more like Jesus'. Matthew 19 v11&12.
The 'ministry team' of SINGLE PEOPLE, which Jesus instituted has been LOST.
