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Let the invisible teacher teach you

The invisible teacher (the risen Jesus) will speak clearly in the heart of the people who truly want to hear Him. Do you? When you’re being taught by God’s Spirit speaking within you, the words of the Bible will come alive in your heart. Just because you can’t see Jesus doesn’t mean He can’t teach you!

Trying to learn the Bible without daily doing what it says, is like trying to learn to play baseball while never picking up a glove, ball, or bat. Openly and humbly interacting heart-to-heart with other passionate Christ-followers while embracing the risen Jesus and staying aligned with the Bible will keep His fire ever burning in your heart.

Recipe for spiritual doldrums:
1) Hear a religious talk,
2) Walk away and forget it,
3) Come back each week and do it again.

Recipe for spiritual awakening:
1) Daily listen to Jesus in your heart,
2) Verify what you hear with the Bible,
3) Say and do what He tells you to.

Even after decades of sermon-hearing and 3 years of seminary, I’ve learned very little through religious lectures. Oh, I’ve obtained some dry theological information that way, but little of it has inspired me. I was taught the knowledge that keeps my heart ablaze with passion for Jesus by God’s Spirit speaking in my heart and making me hungry to continually devour the Bible, to bask in His presence, and to align my thoughts and behaviors to His will.

Christians can gather without organizing into a religious institution and instead let God’s Spirit lead and empower us. Will we? I don’t think the living Jesus likes being structured, systematized, and nationalized by religious organizations. Intuitional Christianity where Jesus speaks directly to human hearts is often abandoned for institutional Christianity that inserts a pastor between Christ and His people.

Jesus never said, “Wherever a big crowd of people is gathered together in My name, there am I in the midst of them.” He said, “two or three.” It’s much more difficult to get a crowd of people to be led by God’s Spirit than it is to get two or three (or a few) to hear and obey the Spirit together.

A problem with man-led religious structures is that the person at the top who claims to hold others accountable, has no individual in the organization who is allowed to effectively challenge him and hold him accountable. When he’s out of alignment with God, the whole group feels coerced to follow.

2,000 years later we can still follow Jesus. He remains alive and continues to lead those who are willing to listen to and obey Him. The new wine of revival will quickly spill and lose its thrill if it’s pulled into and tamed by religious institutions.

Revival happens in individual hearts. It’s not confined to a particular place or building. “Stir up the gift that is in you!” Be dependent on the living Jesus, not on a church or preacher!

The profound simplicity of New Testament ekklesia: Gather with one or more Christ-followers and listen to Jesus together. Then let each person say and do what Jesus tells them to.

Revival happens when Jesus is allowed to take control. Search: Beyond Church Ekklesia.

God disrupted the apostles’ (sent ones) early efforts to institutionalize the body of Christ. After Pentecost there were thousands of new Christians. Jesus wanted them to go into all the world, but they stayed in Jerusalem as the apostles (sent ones) began to organize and direct the Christian movement as if it were a local megachurch. A man they had appointed to “wait tables” (Stephen) did more than they had authorized for him to do and was killed for openly proclaiming Jesus. Great persecution broke out and all the believers were scattered everywhere preaching the Good News about Jesus, except the apostles (sent ones). Their attempt at putting the move of the Spirit into religious wineskins left them empty handed. Surely there’s a lesson there for us contemporary Christians.

Many Christians
Have been taught
By religious talks
But haven’t let
Themselves be brought
By God’s Spirit
To stay at the foot
Of the Cross.

Let the heartache
Of human heartbreak
Cause you to
Hunger and thirst
For more of Jesus.

Here’s a truth that our society is ignoring today: You can’t truly define who you are by the desires and appetites that torment, tightly control, and sometimes triumph over you. You’re much more than the things that you crave. You are a human being created in the image of God and you have been granted free will.

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Revival causes people & churches to be Christ-enthralled

The world needs Christ-enthralled people. Be one.

Let churches be filled with Jesus-thrilled people! Instead of stuffing God’s Spirit, let’s do Spirit-led stuff! If Jesus is the Head of a church, let Him literally run it! If not, quit pretending that He is!

To be ever enthralled by the living Jesus is to experience perpetual peace, joy, and love. If you ever think you have enough of Jesus in your life, you don’t! He always has more of His presence and power to give you. The more I follow Jesus the more I want more of His presence and power in my life.

Here’s Jesus! He’s everywhere and always the same. The emptiness you feel is hunger for a closer relationship with Him.

Heart-connection with the risen Jesus can’t be staged from a church pulpit or platform. A humanly choreographed program can inform people about Jesus, but it’s a poor substitute for actual demonstrations of His presence. Biblical Christianity is an ongoing intimate personal relationship with the risen Jesus, not a study or a lecture about Him.

Most every church has a few people who are intently aware of Jesus’ presence, but they’re usually kept off of the Sunday program. Perhaps the people who are most aware of and yielded to the presence of Jesus are the ones who need to speak in churches; not the ones who have studied the most theology.

Preachers, if you ask, “Who this morning is excited about Jesus?” and then say, “Please come to the mic ad tell us why,” God will show up! Stubbornly sticking with one-man control of a church service drastically limits what the living Jesus is allowed to do.

If the person in the pulpit isn’t visibly thrilled about Jesus, the congregation won’t be either. I’ve never seen anything in the Bible to convince me that a person in a pulpit should control a Christian gathering.

The desperate times today call for a Christianity that’s led by the living Jesus. Human-led churches aren’t up to the task! For example: the false, modern definition of healthy sexuality is: “Anything anybody wants to do with anybody they can manipulate to do it with them.”

Enthralled!
Jesus facinates me,
Holds all my attention
And keeps me
Immersed in His presence.
My heart is
Tangled up
With Him
And ever awed
By my awareness
Of His reality.

Come hear Jesus,
Here, there, and
Everywhere.
Keep your ear
In gear
To clearly hear
And obey
The here Jesus.

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When church meets like a bicycle wheel, God’s Spirit rolls on!

Demonstrations of Jesus’ love are far more effective than sermons about it. People in alcohol and drug recovery learn to “Let go and let God.” Why don’t pastors let go and let Jesus peddle?

Revival happens when Jesus takes control of Christian gatherings. When people take it back, revival fades away. Too many pastors hold on and block God! It’s time to let go and let God.

When church meets like a chain of command under the control of a human leader there’s no room for the living Jesus to take charge. When Christians gather to worship like a bicycle wheel with each spoke (person) directly connected to the risen Jesus, He steers them into His presence and glory and God’s Spirit rolls on!

Churches are so addicted to human control that they almost never give Christ-control a chance. God’s Spirit is too often pushed away by human organization and religious control. Church seems to me to be like people playing “keep away” — keeping control of the meeting away from the risen Jesus. When someone other than the living Jesus has control of a church, the people will miss out on the glory of seeing Christ personally lead His body.

Church needs to be about releasing daily doers of the word, not about holding on to Sunday hearers. It’s time for sermon-hearing church attendees to become Jesus-obeying Christ-followers. Make the shift today!

Every true Christian has a direct relationship with the risen Jesus that no one should ever come between! No one has a right to control a meeting that’s been dedicated to Christ. Let’s take our hands off and let Jesus take charge. Any Christian leader who uses manipulation or coercion has stepped out of the will of God.

Pastors need to train and release people to go and freely follow the living Jesus, not hold on to and control them. Here’s great sermon idea! Read the Bible verses about the boy Samuel hearing God’s voice. Then have the congregation listen to God and share what He tells them.

Jesus calls us to submit to His authority and to turn away from the domination of our own desires. Every Christian can graduate from being a spectator and begin to experience the book of Acts stuff every day. Search: The Joy of Early Christianity book. Here’s an example:

I was a counselor and chaplain in an alcohol and drug rehab for 5 1/2 years. Men would tell me stories about the evil that they had done, and I would be shocked and appalled at the things I heard. Then I would be equally shocked by the kindness, mercy, and compassion that rose up in me and flowed out as I prayed for them and often wept with them. Afterwards, those same men treated me with such respect and kindness that I was in awe at how God changed their attitude.

Let Jesus lift
Your heart on high
Like a balloon
Rising in the sky.
You don’t have to try
Or work hard to fly.
Just nurture the gift
Of Christ in you.

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The revival prayer and posture

Standing, sitting, walking, or knelling, prayer for revival needs to be from the heart! Here’s my revival prayer:

Send me, Jesus! I don’t want to continually sit and be satisfied with Sunday sermons about You. I want to hear, to follow, and to obey You every day and be a light that helps make everyone I meet aware of the reality of Your presence and love.

Revival is the wake-up sound of God sending . . .
Too many Christians
Are content
To conform
To the culture
Around them
Without a hint
That God’s intent
Is that we’re all sent
To show and tell
People how
To repent
And be
Set free
By the
Risen Jesus.
Go into the world
And make disciples.

When I first wake up in the morning, I sense Jesus’ voice while I’m still in bed. As I listen, His words focus me on what He wants to say and do throughout the day.

Hearing what the Spirit is saying, noticing His promptings within you, is the first step to being Spirit-led. If people were trained to daily hear what the Spirit is saying and verify it with the Bible, they would no longer be dependent on sermon-hearing.

The resurrected Jesus repeatedly told His followers to hear what the Spirit is saying to them when they gather as His body. It’s time to meet to hear and obey His inner promptings and then be sent by Jesus to change the world with His love. Jesus wants to send all His followers into the world to make disciples, not to have them forever sit and hear sermons about Christianity 101.

Be aware.
Notice people’s pain.
Dare to care
And to share
Some kindness
Everywhere.

Christians are meant
To be sent
To spread good news,
Not to stay
In a church
And waste away.

See a Jesus Revelation on the screen of your heart and you’ll never be the same. Revival needs new wineskins: Search: The Joy of Early Christianity book.

The really happy place is everywhere!

I meet with God here, there, and everywhere. Throughout the day I seek to stay in His presence and obey the inner promptings of the Spirit. I want to let the risen Jesus be my interior decorator and continually rearrange my heart to be like His.

If you will quit running and let Jesus get a firm hold on your heart, you’ll finally find your happy place! When your interior is morally inferior to your exterior, it’s time to listen to your conscience, confess what you’re hiding, and humbly repent.

Where the battles inside of us are being won, spiritual warfare is victorious because inner violence is driving out deceptive desires, feelings, and demons! First, we need to let the living Jesus help us defeat our inner enemies and establish His absolute Lordship and reign within us and among us. Then wherever we go we’ll be contagious carriers of His victory and His presence, and we’ll spread and revive His kingdom authority everywhere.

Many Christians have ears to hear the Spirit, but we have been trained to listen to a weekly sermon together instead of hearing and obeying God’s inner promptings as the body of Christ. As Christ-followers we need to frequently gather to hear the Spirit and to act on His inner promptings together. “Where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.” Where the King rules, there is His kingdom! Let His reign be demonstrated through our ongoing surrender and obedience everywhere we go.

In the inner wilderness where we are alone in our own heart without outward distractions, the devil sends his thoughts to tempt and torment us. It is there, deep within us, that we can learn spiritual warfare: to resist the demons, to cast them out and to make them flee. It is also in our inner wilderness that angels come to minister to us, and we can learn to recognize and obey the voice of our Shepherd leading us to life, spiritual authority, and unspeakable joy. To avoid the inner wilderness is to avoid spiritual growth. “Be still and know that I am God.”

A church service should make it easier for Christians to be led by the Spirit, not control them and make it more difficult. Revival introduces us to heart proximity to the risen Jesus and the people who passionately love Him.

The outta church Jesus Revolution

The Jesus Revolution movie ended by saying that much of the Jesus Movement happened outside of and independent of churches. That was my experience and the experience of multitudes in my generation.

In early 1970 some students from Asbury University came and spoke at a small college in a small town in West Tennessee (University of Tennessee Martin) and spread revival to a weekly “Dorm Devotion” meeting there. A few weeks later I visited one of those meetings and found a room full of people visibly thrilled about Jesus.

What I heard students say and what I saw on their faces that night immediately changed me from within. I have never been the same. It still moves me to tears when I tell people about how Jesus showed Himself to me in an instant that night.

Those students quickly became family as together we celebrated our love for Jesus. We met weekly to sing songs, pray, hear testimonies, share Scriptures, encourage one another and enjoy Jesus’ presence working among us.

We continually hung out with each other during the week sharing our excitement about what Jesus was showing us and the amazing way He was working in our lives. We felt a deep bond that went far beyond theology or church affiliation. When we would run into each other in various places on campus, we often held hands and had spontaneous prayer meetings. We wanted to tell everybody everywhere about the living Jesus and even though most of us weren’t hippies, we were all known as Jesus Freaks.

During my years there I didn’t go to church much. When I did attend a sermon-based church service it was always a spiritual letdown from my daily and weekly experiences with my fellow campus Jesus-lovers.

We saw churches as mission fields where we could show up and tell people that Jesus is real and truly alive and present. We formed a choir and were occasionally invited to sing and testify in churches. We went on long weekends in churches called “Lay Witness Missions” where we took turns sharing our stories about how the living Jesus was working in our lives and saw many church people weep and repent and be transformed by the risen Jesus.

I was ruined by my Jesus Revolution college years. Since then, I’ve never been satisfied with a few songs and a sermon. I want to hear God’s people share how the living Jesus is working in and through them! I want to let Jesus take charge when we meet together so we can be led by the Spirit instead of by a pastor or a program. Is that too much to ask?

In the Jesus Revolution movie, Chuck Smith (the official church pastor) tells Lonnie Frisbee (the hippie co-pastor) that the church meetings need to be kept under control. Lonnie says that no one should try to control the Spirit. Then Chuck eventually forces Lonnie (who God had used to fill the church with hippies) to leave because he was obeying the Spirit and praying for and proclaiming miracles. (Lonnie later helped start the Vineyard Movement/churches, along with John Wimber, which was more open to the leading and gifts of the Spirit. However, it still maintained the one-man sermon and senior pastor model of church.)

After I graduated in 1974, I went to Southern California for a year because I wanted to continue to experience the Jesus Revolution. I went to seminary at Melodyland, a huge charismatic church and small seminary. I also went numerous times to the Saturday night concerts at Calvary Chapel. By that time both places had already drifted away from the Spirit-led spontaneity of the outta church Jesus Revolution into a more formal and religious approach to Christianity. There I realized that it takes hard work to hold on to your “first love” for Jesus.

“Yet I hold this against you: You have forsaken the love you had at first. Consider how far you have fallen! Repent and do the things you did at first.” –Jesus, speaking in Revelation 2:4-5.

Over the years, I’ve seen much “first love” from the Jesus Revolution shift into formalism, religion, and institutionalism. I’ve even been forced to leave churches because I prayed for and proclaimed miracles. I pray that this present and coming Jesus Revolution is not so quickly muffled and muzzled by churches and religious organizations but remains free to let the living Jesus be the active, literal and ongoing Head of what He is now pouring out in the earth. (The 2023 Asbury Outpouring did a wonderful job of letting Jesus lead and keeping the focus on Him instead of on human leaders.)

Go see the movie, Jesus Revolution, and observe the way Jesus showed up with glory, healing, and deliverance in non-religious people’s lives. Then notice the shift toward institutionalism in the second half of the movie. Ask Jesus to show Himself to you and to keep you passionately following Him (instead of an organization or a pastor) for the rest of your life!

A few more thoughts:

It’s hard to be led by the Spirit if you’re caught in the cages of institutional religion.If you mention your pastor’s name in conversations about church more than you do the name of Jesus, you need to reverse the order.I’d rather be thrilled about Jesus than chilled by church!Remove the Sunday morning gag order. Let church attendees tell the congregation what God is doing in their life.

Is church like bowling pins and gutter balls?

Are preachers throwing gutter balls? I just had an image come to my mind of bowling pins and gutter balls. The pins were neatly lined up and a man was rolling gutter balls so he wouldn’t disturb them. When God’s word is declared, it should disrupt us and reset us, not leave us unchanged and stuck in the same religious routine week after week.

True Christianity requires directly hearing God’s Spirit, not hand-me-down hearing through a preacher. Listen within, don’t depend on sermons. Institutional Christianity gathers spectators. The living Jesus fills, empowers, and releases witnesses who obey Him, testify to, and demonstrate His reality!

Spectator Christians are like stuck keys on a piano; no matter how much they’re tapped, they remain silent. When Christians gather as spectators, the Holy Spirit is hindered, but when they’re hungry and encouraged to freely interact with Jesus and one another, God’s glory shows up!

Jesus isn’t a religious institution. He’s the living Creator and Lord of all! Follow Him beyond church as usual to overwhelming peace, joy, and love!

It’s time to deinstitutionalize Christianity. Connect heart-to-heart with the risen Jesus and follow Him! Be daily led by God’s Spirit. Let’s drop the religious titles and just be brothers and sisters in Christ.

Troubles and trials are revelatory. They show us our frailty and cause us to deeply realize our great need for the power and presence of the living, resurrected Jesus. Trials motivate us to search our heart, to repent, to cry out for, and to cling to God’s mercy and help. When we are profoundly aware of our brokenness, we openly acknowledge our weaknesses and then Jesus steps into our inner abyss with His reality and strength.

Be Spirit-led
And Spirit-fed.
No longer live
As though you’re
Spiritually dead.
Let Jesus be
Your living Head
As you
Daily do
What He says.

Revival?
A Christian whose
Heart and mind
Are entwined
With unkind
Thoughts and
Bad desires
Needs to repent,
Unwind
And be realigned
To God’s inner light.

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Jesus? Active or inactive?

An inactive Jesus must be explained by sermons, but the living Jesus wants to actively demonstrate His presence. Shall we let Him?

A tightly programmed and controlled church service reveals unbelief in the ability of the active Jesus to personally lead the meeting. Christianity is so much more than a group of inactive people passively sitting in rows to hear a weekly religious talk.

If the preacher doesn’t show up, the Sunday show doesn’t go on. If Jesus doesn’t show up, no one seems to notice.

Ever since I first encountered and began to follow the living Jesus, I’ve found that simply settling into the traditional church format isn’t the best choice for my relationship with Him. Merely attending church encourages me to be a spectator and to see Christianity as a once-a-week thing that a professional speaker does for me. It tempts me to see Jesus as an inactive historical figure who I merely need to learn about instead of seeing Him as the active and present King and Lord who calls me to ever surrender my life and my will to Him.

God has blessed me with a deep hunger for so much more of Jesus’ presence. The Holy Spirit continually calls me beyond church as usual and to daily dependance and reliance on the risen Jesus. He nudges and prompts me from within to obey His specific directions to me and to truly trust in God with heart-felt faith during everyday situations. The Spirit connects me heart-to-heart with other believers and as we listen to and obey the living Jesus together, we behold and experience Him actively and powerfully working in and through us.

The active Jesus will disturb an inactive Christian! Too many Christians are seeking preachers and/or religious celebrities instead of seeking “first the kingdom of God and His righteousness.” Christians are famous for sitting down for church. Now it’s time to stand up and show the love, power, and presence of Jesus!

Churches present Jesus as distant and inactive. The truth is just the opposite! Pastors who believe that Jesus is inactive feel an ongoing need to control church services.

When churches gather around an inactive Jesus, everything must be done by someone else. But when they gather around the living Jesus, He can run things Himself!

Church attendance is often used as an excuse for not obeying Jesus in daily life. To follow the inactive Jesus all you need to do is sit and hear a talk. To follow the active Jesus, you have to get up and get going!

The active Jesus works in and through everyday people. The inactive Jesus depends on sermons and programs. The inactive Jesus is a counterfeit Jesus that is proclaimed by tightly controlled churches that allow no room for the active Jesus to take charge.

Revival happens when the active Jesus is welcomed to replace the inactive religious Jesus. Keep revival going. Make room in churches for the living Jesus to take control!

Do you want to welcome the active Jesus into your church or small group? Search for: Beyond Church Ekklesia.

When Peter said,
“This is that . . .”
He was talking about
Freedom in God’s Spirit,
Not the one-man chat
Of the religious
Church format.

When a congregation
Moves beyond stagnation
And opens up to receive
Christ’s activation,
It changes their situation
From being spectators
Into being a demonstration
Of Jesus working in
And through ordinary people!

Church’s rubber duckies . . .

Stop playing with church’s rubber duckies. Instead, let Jesus’ rivers of living water flow from deep within you. It’s time to stop being bored with church! If you aren’t experiencing the risen Jesus in the service, go and find Him somewhere else.

Watching nature shows is no substitute for smelling the flowers. Hearing sermons is no substitute for tasting and seeing that God is good. Christianity’s not about how much you know about Jesus and the Bible. It’s about how surrendered you are to rest and flow in His presence.

Why settle for sitting in a back row in church. Instead, go to the living Jesus and take the front row at His feet! Enough of sitting thru church! It’s time to move the tassel and let the living Jesus graduate you into daily living in His presence.

Be a Jesus fan! Look away from religious hype and controlling churches and let Christ be the only celebrity in your life. The more you let love for the living Jesus overflow from your heart, the less you’ll be satisfied with hearing weekly talks about Him!

If you won’t drive tormenting demonic thoughts out of your mind and heart and have nothing to do with them, they will burn up your peace and joy. Let the living Jesus help you cast them out! Jesus can fill your heart with His presence and restore what’s dried up in you with His flourishing growth and fruitfulness.

Let the invisible Jesus be center stage on the church platform. No one else deserves that place!

Preachers, no matter how long you bore people with analytical preaching and teaching, you won’t reach their heart until you open up and show them yours. Preaching to and teaching people who aren’t hungry for God accomplishes little. Instead, testify and let them see Jesus at work in you.

You can teach church attendees about God’s living water, but you can’t make them drink. Instead, open your heart and show them Jesus working in you. Be vulnerable and let people see Christ at work in you. That will be more powerful than any sermon. It will warm their heart and make them hungry for God.

The risen Jesus needs to be front and center in church and not be set to the side for a sermon, a pastor, or a program. “God so loved the world . . .” We don’t need to confine our love to one group of people or put one nation first.

Revival seeks to return us to the original “awe-dition” of Christianity

We need the awe edition of Christianity, not the spectator version. Christians are awe-ditory learners. We don’t really know Jesus unless we allow our heart to be overwhelmed by His presence.

Instead of being an audience church attendees need to be an awe-dience completely enthralled by the presence of Jesus. Christianity is not a democracy. It’s an awe-tocracy. It was originally about boldness and awe in following Jesus. Now it’s too often about sitting through the dullness of a religious routine.

Let God sign His awe-tograph on your heart! Open up to God’s awe-flowing inner fountain. Let God awe-dit your heart! The sameness and tameness of Sunday morning Christianity makes spiritual zombies out of too many Christians! By suppressing Spirit-led spontaneity, churches have taken the surprise out of Christianity and replaced it with routine.

Tune in to God’s awe-dio and listen to the still small sound of His voice speaking inside your heart. Step inside of God’s awe-tomobile and let the awareness of the risen Jesus transport you to and keep you in His presence. Be careful that you don’t love church more than you love Jesus.

We need the awe-dacity to obey and proclaim Jesus no matter what people think about us! Christians should be overflowing with Jesus-inspired AWE–Astonishing Wonder Experiences! An audience of lifeless Christians has always made me bored.

Churches often hide God’s awe by refusing to allow people to stand up and openly testify about the miraculous things that God has done for them. Too many Christians instead of being overwhelmed by God’s majesty are underwhelmed by tightly controlled church services.

Revival recovers and restores the majestic awe of God that true Christ-followers once experienced but drifted away from. Let your heart be in awe of God, not just occasionally or momentarily but consistently throughout every day.

Life is wonderful when I stay awe-filled with the presence of Jesus! When I first experienced Jesus, He awe-tomatically changed my heart and I’ve never been the same!

Revival happens when Christians gather and cultivate an environment of freedom and awe where people can personally interact with Jesus. Pride consumes awe and leaves us patting ourselves on the back instead of falling at Jesus feet in radical humility. Don’t stay stuck. Search for Jesus moments!

Revival is beyond church. You won’t find it in a program or sermon. It begins in human hearts. Search: Beyond Church Ekklesia.