Category Archives: Church
The Only One!
‘Then Jesus said, “Did I not tell you that if you believe, you will see the glory of God?” John 11:40 [NIV]
For a lot of us, due to apparent delays, we have begun to ask the same question that John the Baptist asked after he had been in prison for a while. “Are You the Coming One, or do we look for another?” Martha faced similar delays. She had called Jesus to come and heal her brother Lazarus but Jesus delayed. Jesus then shows up after Lazarus had died and Martha says, “Well, Jesus, it’s too late right now to heal my brother”. Read the rest of this entry
Jesus Is _
‘Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one can come to the Father except through me’ John 14:6
Jesus is the center of the purpose and the existence of the church. The church teaches morals but the church is not all about morals. The church is all about Jesus. Beyond the church, the world does not even know that the world is all about Jesus. The entire history of mankind revolves around the person of Jesus. In fact, our dating system revolves around Jesus, everything that happened before He walked the earth is B.C and everything that happens after His death and Read the rest of this entry
Beyond Limits
‘Jesus replied, “Believe me, dear woman, the time is coming when it will no longer matter whether you worship the Father on this mountain or in Jerusalem’ John 4:21.
While every human being has a loving heart towards some people, almost every human being has a list of people that they cannot stand. It could be the person that cost you your job, or the person that took your spouse, it could be the person that stole your money, or someone who was nasty to you, or the person that cost you your business. Sometimes it is that class of the ‘un-liked’ that God Read the rest of this entry
Keep Moving Forward
‘Jesus came and told his disciples, “I have been given all authority in heaven and on earth. Therefore, go and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and Son and the Holy Spirit’ Matt.28:18-19.
Ekklesia stopped being a movement and it became a location [kircha]. The shift in vocabulary signaled a dramatic shift in emphasis and direction. The church now became a tool for politicians to control the people because the church ensured that the people were united and loyal to the political sect. That was a major problem because that was not the church of Jesus Christ. We are Read the rest of this entry
Ekklesia not Kircha
‘But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light’ 1 Pet.2:9 [NIV]
Once the church was legalized, the church that started as a movement became frozen. What was once unpredictable became predictable. What was once unexplainable, the Christians that no one could understand or predict became predictable. And the movement became an establishment. When you say the word church today, what comes to people’s minds is a building because the Read the rest of this entry
Ever Near
‘…And be sure of this: I am with you always, even to the end of the age” Matt.28:20
When we do church and Jesus is not present, that is not church; it is just a waste of time. But thank God Jesus is always present. Ekklesia never referred to a physical building. The church is an assembly, a congregation, a community; the church is not an individual. You have heard people say ‘you are the church’. You are not the church; you are part of the church. The same way your finger Read the rest of this entry
