Hello! We (my wife and I) share a longing to be apart of His eternal purpose. We have a deep desire, beyond reason, to be living stones on His building site. We (a family of four) are more than willing to relocate to another country (currently in…
HI Nigel, It is great to hear you are looking for fellowship and i want to encourage you that you do have a spiritual family and you are part of the body of Christ. we are in Ross -on- Wye area 3 hrs from you in Kent and i would like to connect with…
Is America becoming more like Sodom and Gomorrah. I think that is obvious. America continues to become more immoral and our sins become more grievous. When Homosexuals are called good and born again Christians are called bad. I think we many be…
Romans 1: 24. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: 25. Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the…
Yeah, I'm a follower of Jesus. I'm looking for an organic church type set up. Fairly new to this. Have had it with Institutional Traditional church but have no spiritual family and ready and willing to relocate. I live in East Kent in the…
NO, Do you know him? Have you been to the church? Do you live near Sacramento? Do you have information of where they meet? Thank you am looking for something different. desiring to fellowship with believers who are desiring a stronger walk with…
Thank you Ron & Gary for your kind words...I too have had to realize that I am reading things into the Word that truly are not there about church and many other subjects (Rev. 22:18-19) I am now realizing (by way of a confrontation I had with my…
Hi Paul,
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The Gottalife Team
Well, don't just post and run! Become a friend, share some stories! I'm stoked to find someone in the organic conversation in Sacramento! You are the first outside of my home fellowship...
Currently we are gathering on Sunday mornings about 10-ish. If you are still interested, I'd be happy to give you an address of the home that we gather in. It'd be great to have visitors or new family.
John 3:16 (Message) 16-18 "This is how much God loved the world: He gave his Son, his one and only Son. And this is why: so that no one need be destroyed; by believing in him, anyone can have a whole and lasting life. God didn't go to all the trouble of sending his Son merely to point an accusing finger, telling the world how bad it was. He came to help, to put the world right again.
Romans 5:5-11 (The Message)
we're never left feeling shortchanged. Quite the contrary—we can't round up enough containers to hold everything God generously pours into our lives through the Holy Spirit!
6-8Christ arrives right on time to make this happen. He didn't, and doesn't, wait for us to get ready. He presented himself for this sacrificial death when we were far too weak and rebellious to do anything to get ourselves ready. And even if we hadn't been so weak, we wouldn't have known what to do anyway. We can understand someone dying for a person worth dying for, and we can understand how someone good and noble could inspire us to selfless sacrifice. But God put his love on the line for us by offering his Son in sacrificial death while we were of no use whatever to him.
9-11Now that we are set right with God by means of this sacrificial death, the consummate blood sacrifice, there is no longer a question of being at odds with God in any way. If, when we were at our worst, we were put on friendly terms with God by the sacrificial death of his Son, now that we're at our best, just think of how our lives will expand and deepen by means of his resurrection life! Now that we have actually received this amazing friendship with God, we are no longer content to simply say it in plodding prose. We sing and shout our praises to God through Jesus, the Messiah!
I don't know of any books off the top of my head, but I know they're out there.
One place to start is the following link:
Tithing Article
I'll find some more resources to share with you as time allows.
DM
Very interesting. If you know of some book or material that dives a little deeper into the subject, I would appreciate it. Send my a message if you know of anything.
I just uploaded a song called "Be Still My Soul" on my page that I re-mastered, re-instrumented, added effects, and made a simple midi file sound fantastic.
Enjoy
Michael,
I certainly understand what you're saying. Very few ministers ever speak the TRUTH about the tithe.
In OT times, the tithe was the inheritance of the Levites who were not allowed to make a living by any means as was common among the…
Jossimar, bienvenido al blog de MHI, espero que aqui encuentres informacion relevante sobre como desarrollar discipulos, lideres e iglesias utilizando una proceso estrategico simple/organico. Bendiciones!
I have seen a lot of sermons on the tithing, or giving; some of them very strange. I remember some time a go when my adult daughter was a teen, and going through a very difficult time, was being hauled off in a police car. We called the pastor…
yes, Quite true. "Doing Church" in house with out the Organic content, is just switching buildings. We as people tend to compartmentalize areas of our life. Church in this part, school in this part, marriage in this part,…
Amen to that.
It's also of interes that those who had, for example, only nine lambs or calves born in a year, they were not required to hand over anything.
One thing I will say is that I thoroughly appreciate the OT system of…
You're so right, Darrell! Many of the house churches I'm familiar with are not organic expressions of church but are really just institutional church in miniature. As Frank Viola says, organic church (OC) is one of the most…
When I think about the most significant points in my Christian walk, they did not take place in an organized, institutionalized environment. It was incidental to my world, but wholly intentional by God.
Sure, it's intentional. God is responsible for the Results, we are responsible for the action. God asks us to share our lives, talk to others about him, love others. Who gets saved, or what a person does or does not do or what…
Michael, you are sharing and asking about something that is very crucial. Often the pattern is "We don't want to be that programmed meeting all designed and led by the fellow hired to make it all run smoothly. We want to be more…