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not here, where? If not now, when? If not us, who?
God is tripartite
(three parts) – Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
IF we were made in
God's image,
THEN we are
tripartite (three parts) – Soul, Body and Spirit.
When God heals us,
it affects all three.
When God asks for
obedience, it means from all three.
When God asks for
worship, it means from all three.
When we sin, it
affects all three – Soul, Body and Spirit.
When we disobey,
it affects all three – Soul, Body and Spirit.
When we set
ourselves above God, it affects all three – Soul, Body and Spirit.
When we are
commanded to bear each other's burdens, it means all three.
When we are
commanded to lift the yokes of oppression, it means all three.
When we are
commanded to feed the hungry, it means all three.
When we give food
to the hungry we are feeding their Body.
When we give Godly
instruction to the hungry we are feeding their mind and Soul.
When we give
blessings and prayers to the hungry we are feeding their Spirit.
When we give drink
to the thirsty we are satiating their Body.
When we give pure
truth to the thirsty, we are feeding their mind and Soul.
When we pour out
on them the Living Water in us, we are feeding their Spirit.
We are vessels of
honor, committed to the service of God.
We contain all
kinds of things that can be used for His purposes.
We hold strength,
money, time, knowledge, experience, wisdom, faith, love, joy, peace, patience.
Some are physical,
some are mental, some are spiritual. All are to be shared.
The easiest to
understand and do is the Body.
Even the world is
good at disaster relief and feeding the hungry.
Even the wicked
love their children and feed them good things.
The sneaky one is
the Soul and the Mind.
Satan always wants
us to spend all our energies on that one.
Teach them, train
them, argue about philosophies, speculate about hypotheticals.
That is the Tree
of the Knowledge of Good and Evil.
The world is
really good at writing books and speaking many words. Of that there
is no end.
The rarest one,
the realest one, the most impactful one is the Spirit.
Our battle is NOT
against flesh and blood – or the mind – it's against
spiritual rulers.
Spiritual rulers
that try to steal, kill and destroy.
You can starve the
Spirit by overfeeding the Body and Soul.
All you have to do
is take all the emphasis away from the Spirit and put it on the Mind.
God instituted the
Five Fold Ministry for a reason. Each has their unique role.
Pastors are for
feeding the Body. Caring for widows and orphans.
Teachers are for
feeding the Mind. Train them up in the way they should go.
Evangelists are
for igniting the Spirit in man and turning it over to God.
Prophets identify
the failings in the process individually or corporately and point
them out loudly.
Apostles train
them all up and set them into place and send them out - and are
themselves sent out.
All should be
fully pouring themselves out on behalf of those in need – Body,
Soul and Spirit.
Do we know how to
pour out our Spirit on someone in need?
Do we know how to
make sure our own cup is full? Is anybody teaching that anymore?
Isn't it obvious
that the Church in America's Body is well fed?
How many thousands
of tons of potato salad do we serve at fellowship suppers every year?
How much do we
weigh per capita? We have plenty of food. Who could argue?
In fact, too much
in some places and not enough in others, but that's just a
distribution problem.
Isn't it obvious
that the Church in America's Mind is well fed?
Could we have any
more books and tapes and conferences and satelite training meetings?
Could our soulish
nature be any more gratified? Do we not have enough input?
We are more obese
and overfed in the Mind than we are in the Body.
“Repent of
your sins, accept Jesus into you heart.
There now. We're
done with your Spirit.
We'll focus on
your Body and your Mind from now on.”
Is that really working?
Isn't it obvious
that the Church in America is poor in Spirit and starving to death?
We don't look like
Jesus, because we don't have nearly enough of Him living in us.
Our spiritual cups
are too small.
We don't love like
Jesus, because we don't know how to share what we do have.
Our spiritual cups
are stagnant and lukewarm.
We don't act like
Jesus, because we're leaving out the most important part of the battle.
We're fighting on
the wrong fronts.
We are raising up
very large people with very large brains.
We are not raising
up people with faith like a child that will stride out with five
stones against Goliath.
We are not raising
up people that know how to walk in the Spirit and in the Power of God.
We are not
fulfilling the Great Commission holistically – Body, Soul AND Spirit.
We are not
fulfilling Isaiah 58 holistically – Body, Soul AND Spirit.
We don't know how
to fight in the spirit.
We don't know how
to pray anymore.
Not really. Not
all night with travailing and crying out for God.
Not pulling down
strongholds and lifting yokes of oppression over our town, our church
or our sheep.
We are spiritual
warfare pygmies.
Whose idea could
that have been?
Who is glorified
most by overweight, brainy, spiritually week Christians?
This
site is meant to be just
a plain, direct reporting of how miserably, horribly, devastatingly
badly we
- the
Christians in
the West - have
mismanaged the massive gifts which God has entrusted to
us. Maybe we can change
directions if we try something different. Maybe if we started
listening to God really well and obeying radically, no matter what
the cost. Yeah, that might work.
Although
we're perfectly capable of it - we're
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and slick Madison Avenue ad techniques. Truth is Truth.
Your heart knows the difference.
