Category: What is Emerging

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Ultimate Times Approach

Do the lives we are living reveal that we are prepared for the ultimate times that are approaching us? Are the methods that are being used to prepare us, incomplete, or even the right ones? To this day, our faith in Christ remains a lonely appendage on a sickly body of divided focus and mingled devotion.

If Jesus walked among our lampstands today – which He does – what would he have against us?   Can you hear him saying, “I love these things about you…. but this one thing I have against you. Repent, or I will come and remove your lampstand (your visibility, your voice) to that which surrounds you. This is becuase the compromise that is in you threatens to defile and overrun the good that is coming and has come from you, overturning your contribution of blessing into destruction upon those around you that I have made you visible to.” Continue reading “Ultimate Times Approach”

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Institution-alized

The institutionalization of the Lord’s church, and of various ministries and Christian organizations, continues.  Once an organization or group reaches a certain mass, it will tend toward institutionalization.  I don’t think this happens at the same mass for every example, and it will likely vary, depending on a lot of different factors.  However, once it begins to be institutionalized, it’s mission will be changed from what it was originally, to self-perpetuation.  At this moment, if not before, it will also begin to calcify and lose it’s flexibility.  It will respond in a natural way to threats, to silence or marginalize them, and also remove dissenting voices from it’s midst.  This is often done with the proclamation that the group is more important than the individual, which has an element of truth, but is the wrong comparison.  In Christ, we should be following Christ, not the group, or the individual.  Systematically, Christ Jesus and His leadership fade into the background, and the original mission becomes the focus of marketing efforts, though it has likely been supplanted by a motive that the “organization” must continue.  This is one of the reasons why the institutions of man are temporary, but what God does lasts forever.

More thoughts on this later….

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SO…. what is coming?

Prophetic people get a sense of identity from the thought that they are seeing things that are coming. It makes for good feelings, and a sense of spiritual validity. This should not come as a surprise to us, and we shouldn't be alarmed by this reality, though it is probably omitted from most of the self-commentary that we put forth.

SO? What is coming?

Sadly (do you hear the word sadly a lot lately?), there is very little being said about what the Lord is preparing and embarking on anew. We do hear a fair amount about what is going on in the world around us, what the enemy is planning, and what will happen if we let things continue in the direction they are headed. Unfortunately, this is mostly human reasoning, which is not completely useless, as we know.

But who has a voice and perspective, a heavenly perspective, that affords one view to where the Lord is headed and what He is up to? Can you hear the crickets in the background? Seems a little quite on that front. This is a voice and a perspective we desperately need, and should be primarily devoted to. Continue reading “SO…. what is coming?”