My Profoundest Experiences
View all responses(I woke up this morning with the paragraph that follows this paragraph forming in my heart. I posted it on my Facebook page before I saw today’s writing prompt. It answers today’s question, “What experiences in life helped you grow the most?” My answer begins with this: The many times that I have gathered with members of the body of Christ being assembled and led by God’s Spirit where the risen Jesus is the literal Head of His assembled body not just a figurehead, have helped me grow the most. When a group of people is led by the presence of the living Jesus, He supernaturally empowers them to go beyond routine religion and to surrender control to His Spirit without human organization or manipulation.)
“When Christ, the Son of the living God, is living inside you by His Spirit, He wants to build you together as living stones with other Christ-carriers on the foundational rock of personal, supernatural revelation (not on the shifting sand of human organization and control), so He can be the literal Head, King, and Lord and personally direct, prompt, and lead His followers, building them into Spirit-led gatherings of the members of His body who manifest and demonstrate His presence and reality. To learn how this can begin to happen in a small group (or church) you attend, google: Beyond Church Ekklesia.”
Christians are supposed to do the 50+ “one another commands” in the New Testament with each other. They’re never commanded to sit and expect a pastor to minister to them. Often going to a bar is a desperate attempt to find the heart-to-heart connection that people are often blocked and barred from by the rigid routine of religion.
