Brotherly Love

We have it that such things can be solved by one more look at scripture, Dean says at the second coming.

 I had for a long time thought about brotherly love. There are different kinds of love agape, erotic , brotherly and maybe others. I guess I had wanted the kind of brotherly love I had experienced with friends. I remember in my twenties and thirties going water skiing after work with friends in the afternoon sun after work. Ah I loved it! But our relation with  church people excludes this kind of interaction and is instead concerned with the holy meeting, the holy convocation. Serious business. 

The messianic community that I know of  is content to follow the conventional pattern of a more or less corporate approved clergyman delivering a monologue in a rigid order of the meeting. Much of this is concepts that trickle down from the Catholic Church with it's central clergy system and follows the Greek system of the Sophists that used to deliver philosophy dissertations as a sort of Greek entertainment. Gregory invented the Latin Mass which  is the predecessor of the order of the service which we enjoy in our Messianic Conversations.

Some House church groups are aware of this having read of it having  read such books as Viola's "Pagan Christianity." But they meet in meetings where a kind of popularity of what is said dominates the meeting. Someone might say I  love Jesus and He lives in me. I love  Him because He kept the commandments so I don't have to.. This goes over well with the group so is taken for inspiration. Someone rushes to say something else.and it's often difficult to say anything yourself. And if you do say something not in the same vane it's not well received.It's just not welcome. Do we thus recieve sound doctrine? Would we have received Jeremiah? There is a strained friendship coming from diverse backgrounds but striving for the ultimate kind of a meeting. House churches have a more simple answer to the Sabbath and Holy days and calendar issue saying Jesus is the Sabbath which works for them as is their concept of commandmant keeping. There are some that work very seriously at it  like all things are on diffrent levels of it. We aere all serious

Christ dose command several times to love the brothers. I take it that we should go water skiing together but everyone else has it that we should have orderly meetings. I think back to a simpler time when Jesus as God as man visits Abraham Abraham is sitting by his tent and sees Jesus and  two angles and asks them to join them for a kind of impromptu but elaborate meal I like to call a barbecue. Then after dinner they discuss God's plans and I kind of get maybe some more, Christ as Jesus  takes the disciples boating I like to look at it as.

But meeting as the Catholic Church as a kind of holy act that admits us to the  kingdom of God for all eternity requires more seriousness. We are entitled to order.Order and market share.

But I find encouraging one another as the day aproaches often after the so called meeting takes place. This is what we should be doing, I just wish we could do it in a more Godly setting like Abraham did or Jesus.