There was a time in my life that I was very politically active. I fought for my candidates and made my political views well known. I was even the president of a local chapter of the Right to Life Committee. I am not there anymore, much to the chagrin of those who are still politically active. I have come to a simple conclusion. If we are to effect real change in our nation, politics is not the venue. The hearts and minds of people are what we should be fighting for. There are those who would tell me we need to be fighting in all realms, political, temporal, spiritual, eternal. That we will fail if we do not fight all of these battles. That it is the only way we will beat the juggernaut. I will tell you to save your breath. Who do we serve? Do we serve an impotent god or do we serve the Holy One of Israel, Jehovah who is capable of all things? Who is more powerful, the juggernaut of our government or Jehovah? If we as His children turn back to Him and forsake our selfish ways, is He not capable of restoring our nation? If He chooses not to then what have we lost?
What government we are under does not matter as long as we serve Him. All things will work together for His glory. So why do we struggle in the temporal world to right a ship that we have no power to right? It is like trying to pump out the ocean using a hand pump. At some point we will be flooded out. Only when we have turned our hearts back to the One who commands the ocean itself and put our faith in Him and submit to His will we will be restored. This is a simple truth. One that Israel learned over and over again. We are on the same path.
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A true student of history. A true student of the word. A true student seeing the writing on the wall.
I am both interested and distressed by your stance on scripture. You seem to want your readers to think you stand on it, yet you seem to have your own revelations, which is a violation of the sufficiency of scripture. You seem to borrow from the NT but you tend to base your stance on the OT. You say that the first members of the Church were the Scribes and Pharisees. This is a gross misreading of the Scriptures. Saul of Tarsus was a Pharisee of the highest honor and yet he was out to stamp out any and all evidence of the Church and eventually the Pharisees called for, and secured, the cruel death of their Messiah.
You say that you are called to encourage individuals to grow in Him, but at the same time, you seem to be generally disgruntled with the Church for which He laid down His Life. You say that you are in the wilderness.
Your banner seems to be that you are suffering from Asperger’s Syndrome, unable to show love, and are otherwise insufficient for your calling whereas a true minister of God does so under the banner of the perfect Omnipotence of The Lord God. When I received Christ as my Savior, my life immediately began to change and the Holy Spirit began to transform me into the image of Christ by renewing my mind and my ability to express Love was in His court. Insufficiency has it’s place but as a banner shows an arrogance on your part to rob God of His Glory, as does your use of the terms “Yeshua and G_d”, which is extremely synthetic.
After reading your mission statement and the last few weeks of your blog, I wonder if there is a church of which you approve or do you completely stand alone. If you do stand alone then why would you accept any particular writings as scripture. I suppose your self indulgence of your high level of intelligence would lead you in such a direction, “Thinking themselves wise they became fools”. For the love of Christ, make Him you Savior and the strength of you ministry. Lead others to worship Him and Him alone.
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