The Unstructured Kingdom - Part 2: The Lord builds His church and establishes His Kingdom, not in a human way, but in a divine way, not in an organized way, but by His life-giving transforming Spirit. There is no so-called divine order, pattern, or system for Gods church - what He does in one place or at one time will be totally different from what He does in another place or at another time - if it is by His Spirit! The way He deals with you may not be the same as the way He deals with me (absolutely no Same Size fits All). What He requires of me in specific acts of obedience may not be the same size that He requires of you. The way the Spirit moves and directs His people to worship, minister, and the structure He brings forth in their midst, will not be carbon copies of what He did in Jerusalem, Ephesus, Colosse, Corinth, or in the body of Christ today in the next city, state, or nation. Jesus never made any arrangements or left any schedule. He left a bunch of men in charge who only weeks before had abandoned Him, who cursed and swore that they didnt even know Him, and fled in terror into hiding. What a faithless, unpredictable, undependable group! From our natural viewpoint, what He did was a mess. Everything occurred as kind of accident. Jesus did everything without any revealed plan or any appointments or pre-arrangements or apparent method. When He wanted to speak to His disciples after His resurrection He just came. He came in a way that absolutely different from the religious systems of today. Even during His three and a half years of sonship ministry He never called a formal meeting - there never was one. Never did He announce that He would be preaching and ministering to the sick on a certain day, at a particular place and time. He held no organized crusades. He did no advertising nor mailed out any announcements. He rented no halls, stadiums, auditoriums, and pitched no revival tent. His meetings had no announced time of beginning or ending. He hired no campaign manager and appointed no song or worship leader. Peter didnt open the meeting with prayer, James didnt lead the worship, John didnt make the announcements or take the offering. Think of it - no prayer, no singing, no worship service, no Bible reading, no stirring of the emotions, no form of preliminaries, no order of meeting, no hype of any kind! There were absolutely NONE of the activities or structure without which the modern-day traditional evangelistic, revival, crusade and church meetings could not function. There was certainly nothing religious. Only his preaching and teaching as one having authority, and the SPONTANEOUS manifestation of the power of God - that was all Jesus used - that was positively all! But wait, that was Jesus and that was a long, long time ago....we have so much more to work with today like video screens and elevated pulpits with spotlights and great sound systems and otherwise. But please remember - He was the Pattern Son and knew what would work and what would not work...and proved that fact without a doubt! How simple to follow the Son of God and just pattern after Him....apparently way, way too simple! Blessings and enjoy your 4th!!!
Posted on: Fri, 04 Jul 2014 08:50:04 +0000
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