The Mercy Papers - 1

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Reclaim the Bow

Discovering Original Mercy

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The Mercy Papers (1)

      Profoundly compelled by our Lord’s great commandment, great commission, and high priestly prayer, a vision for incarnating the merciful message of the rainbow coalesced on July 13, 2017.

            With roots in the hearts of those entrusted to launch this missional movement, it will confound anyone who has misappropriated the rainbow’s symbolic encouragement of God’s covenantal assurances of existential and eternal mercy as it attracts inquiry to the invitational, welcoming, including, and unconditionally loving incarnations of women and men who follow Jesus by the book as guided by the Holy Spirit.

            Expecting the efficacious evolution of the movement, it begins with preliminary principles:

            - Reclaiming the bow’s symbolism, the movement highlights its original intent between God, Noah, and everyone to provide a perpetual reminder of God’s mercy whenever we see it in the sky. 

- God’s mercy is not restricted to declared disciples of Jesus but rather extended to everyone regardless of culture or religion through declared disciples of Jesus.

            - The distinctive social ethic enfleshed in Jesus and expected of those who claim Him as Lord and Savior is agape; praying and laboring for the highest good for everyone regardless of who, what, where, when, or why without needing or expecting response, regard, or reward.

- Loving everyone is among the best evidences of loving God.  Jesus explained, “When you love others, you are loving Me.”  He provides the model: “Love others as much as I love you.”  The sacrificially selfless, gracious, forgiving, and redemptive love of Jesus is this movement’s model.

           

            The movement’s imminent initiatives include:

            - Videos and mercy papers to encourage, enable, and equip discovering original mercy; emphasizing intimacy with God as the supernatural solution to natural challenges.

            - Supporting gays with health issues.

            - “Standing in the gap” with women and gays victimized by Sharia Law.

- Provide opportunities for mature discussions on difficult subjects with the common goal of maintaining mutual respect within confessional integrity.

- Produce merchandise with the bow to attract inquiry and generate self-sustaining financial fuel for the movement.

- Model Someone better for ideological extremes bent to hate, hit, and hurt.

Overwhelmed by God’s lavishly limitless and romantic love, this movement is good news for people chained to class, color, gender, religious, political, and other idolatrous human inventions plagued and polluted by prejudices alien to righteousness as exemplified in Jesus and explained in Holy Scripture.

We beg God’s knowledge, wisdom, and strength to be a redemptive voice amid the meanness, madness, misery, and miscreance of life in the modern world.

            We will always be eager to confess and repent error as instructed by Jesus, Holy Scripture, and common sense.

            Essentially, this movement echoes the Pauline understanding of God’s ultimate passion for humanity: “God wants everyone to be saved.”

Evolutionary Updates

               TMP (1) contributors are B&B.

               Immediate financial assistance is necessary to begin the movement’s initiatives as noted.  If you are nudged then compelled by the Holy Spirit to plant some seed $, please send a check to The Grove (4210 Countryside Estates, Poplar Grove, Illinois 61065) or First Presbyterian Church (221 N. Main Street, Belvidere, Illinois 61008) and write “Reclaim the Bow” in the memo.  You will be glad you did as we join hands with Him to Reclaim the Bow!

               We encourage you to forward, duplicate, and disseminate TMPs.

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Reclaim the Bow (We Need Your Help Now!)

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    The symbol has been hijacked by left, right, up and down and all around.

    It's been used in ways to promote ideology pretending theology.

    With the roots of this movement always in the hearts of those entrusted with launching it, it will confound those who have misappropriated the symbol and attract inquiry leading to reconciliations heretofore sabotaged by eisegetes injecting their extremely navel-gazing bigotries into a simply saving covenant of mercy.

    As you will read below, we need your help to get going.

    Our pledge is we will never seek the favor of anyone but God.

    This pledge will infuriate the left, right, up and down and all around while infusing the faithful with a fresh boldness tempered by strong calm sanity to bring original mercy back to a world and religions/churches/mosques/synagogues so desperate for...God...and those praying and laboring to love...like God in Jesus by the book.

   Reclaim the Bow

"Discovering Original Mercy"

(copyright pending, 2017)

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    For over a decade of increasing intimacy with Him and each other, Brian and Bob have known He brought them together for a reason/purpose/mission to honor Jesus by the book as guided by the Holy Spirit.

    Church planter Brian is the lead pastor of The Grove in Poplar Grove, Illinois.

    Iconoclastic mainline denominational credential-holder Bob is undershepherd of Belvidere, Illinois' First Presbyterian Church primarily known as "Our Family of Faith on the Corner of Lincoln and Main."

    Profoundly compelled by our Lord's great commandment, great commission, and high priestly prayer, a vision for incarnating the merciful message of the rainbow has been forming in their spirits and coalesced on July 13, 2017 between 3:00 - 6:00 p.m.

    Anyone familiar with the rainbow's symbolic and covenantal assurances will take the hint; yet the message in the movement is staggering, seismic, salty, enlightening, leavenating, and ultimately saving.

    Stay tuned!

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    The preceding paragraphs are the first hint of what's to come through Reclaim the Rainbow (Discovering Original Mercy).

    Though tempted to, uh, disclose some of the plans to show His mercy that will stun left, right, up and down and all around by the movement's radical and uncompromising devotion to the agape love of God so elegantly and romantically symbolized in the bow, exemplified in Jesus, and explained in Holy Scripture, let's just say, for now, those who have used the bow in the past from left, right, up and down and all around to promote their idiosyncratic ideologies only coincidentally related to the merciful message of Biblical Christianity will be shaken to salvific inquiry if not enthusiasm in the next several months.

    Really, while those familiar with the symbol may have some guesses, it's waaaaaaay beyond whatever you're thinking in a Colossians 3:1-4 kinda way.

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    Brian, who is much better at this than moi, says we need seed money to get the ball rolling.

    He's referring to domains, webs, social networking, legal stuff, material investments, promos, and, uh, I don't know.

    He estimates start-up costs of around 10-15K with expectations of quick self-and-expanding support.

    So if you're feeling nudged by the Holy Spirit right now to plant some seed $, you can send a check to The Grove (4210 Countryside Estates, Poplar Grove, Illinois 61065) or First Presbyterian Church (221 N. Main Street, Belvidere, Illinois 61008) and write "Reclaim the Bow" in the memo.

    You will be glad you did as we joins hands with Him to Reclaim the Bow!

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Blessings and Love!

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Eugene H. Peterson. Another Fallen Hero? Not So Fast!

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Eugene H. Peterson

Another Fallen Hero?  Not So Fast!

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While I’m just scratching the surface of my relationship with Jesus,

I’m scratching; and compelled to move increasingly away from

the egocentric, sociocentric, congregationally and

denominationally distracting and discouraging

to bridge-builders and alliances

focused on and filtered through

Jesus by the book.

I must join hands with them for Him to

Reclaim the Bow

In our quest for

Discovering Original Mercy!

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Did you miss the course on original sin?

Then why are you so surprised when

everyone but Jesus falls, fails, and

proves to be sooooooo human?

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Jesus came to save us from our sins

not applaud our idolatries.

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Until you become a Psalm 62 kinda believer,

you will never find peace in community.

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Disclaimer

Preceding quotes from RRK not EHP

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          Whenever the Yankees lose, I get calls, texts, and e-mails from people who expect me to be devastated.

          Whenever the Presbyterian Church (USA) does something stupid – not an infrequent occurrence – I’m on the receiving end of smug, sarcastic, and demeaning commentary by self-congratulatory amigos that have left for islands of theological, ideological, and socioeconomic homogeneity.

          Because my politics are not nearly as neat and important as praying and trying to follow Jesus by the book, mindless drones that identify themselves as Democrats and Republicans and think I’m not one of ‘em will let me know when Republicans make Pharisees blush and Democrats prove they have no identifiable faith or morality.

          I can’t count the number of times that folks have felt obligated to tell me about somebody who just died in an iron pony accident; especially if she/he was helmetless.

          It’s sick.

          It reminds me of a big reason why Jesus was crucified.

          Too many people like bad news more than good news.

          So my world wasn’t rocked when I read the headlines about Eugene sent to me by righties who know I like him but know he leans left and lefties who know I like him and know I bow to Jesus by the book and others who know he has played a really big part in my life and evolving relationship with Jesus since October 2011:

“Eugene Peterson’s New Message”

“Message Bible Creator Eugene Peterson

Changes Mind on Homosexuality;

Would Perform a Same-Sex

Marriage If Asked”

“Eugene Peterson on Changing His Mind

About Same-Sex Issues and Marriage”

“Lifeway Prepared to Stop Selling the Message

Over Eugene Peterson’s LGBT Comments”

“Eugene Peterson’s Theological Sigh”

          I can’t bring myself to print the furiously celebratory and condemning headlines, bylines, texts, and tweets that would make even President Trump wince.

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          Because I didn’t miss the course on original sin and still hold credentials in one of those mainline denominations increasingly notorious for thumbing their noses at over 2K years for Biblical, confessional, constitutional, historical, traditional, and common sense Christianity, I don’t expect anyone, especially me, to be pure and perfect in every way when compared to Jesus by the book.

          Besides, when I spent one of the most significant weeks of my life with Jan and Eugene along with a few brothers back in October 2011, I spotted an autographed picture of President Obama on their refrigerator.

          Now that the dust is settling a bit, I’m glad I didn’t knee-jerk and lament another fallen hero.

          While Eugene is not as guiltless as his idolaters pretend, he’s not as off the wall as those who’ve been looking for a way to get back at him for making the Bible more accessible suggest.

          When I made a fool of myself and asked if he used The Message during his devotions, he smiled so disarmingly and humbly and revealed, “I use my Hebrew and Greek texts.”

          I remembered my absurd moment before jumping on the bandwagon of those who are so quick to celebrate and condemn; for it’s hard for me to imagine a man of such primary source and reverence for Holy Scripture could ever fit neatly into the idiosyncrasies, eisegesis, and hysteria of the extremes ruining so many churches.

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          He got into this mess when a reporter for RNS asked, “If you were pastoring today and a gay couple in your church who were Christians of good faith asked you to perform their same-sex wedding ceremony, is that something you would do?”

          Peterson: “Yes.”

          The left celebrated.

          The right condemned.

          Those re-imagining, re-inventing, eisegeting, and putting words into God’s mouth to contradict the clarity of revelation in Jesus by the book had found a hero.

          Those still believing in Jesus by the book prepared their barbecue pits for another book-burning to lament another fallen hero to join Achtemeier, Barnes, Campolo, Rogers, et.al.

          But in less than 24 hours, Peterson recanted: “To clarify, I affirm a Biblical view of marriage: one man to one woman.  I affirm a Biblical view of everything.”

          The right celebrated.

          The left condemned.

          Peterson went on to confuse his lionizers and demonizers: “I presume I was asked this question because of my former career as a pastor in the Presbyterian Church (USA), which recently affirmed homosexuality and began allowing its clergy to perform same-sex weddings.  Having retired from the pastorate more than 25 years ago, I acknowledged to the reporter that I haven’t had a lot of experience with it…I’ve never performed a same-sex wedding.  I’ve never been asked and, frankly, I hope I never am asked.”

          Just before or after his yes to the RNS reporter’s interrogative, he admitted, “I wouldn’t have said this 20 years ago, but now I know a lot of people who are gay and lesbian and they seem to have as good a spiritual life as I do.  I think that kind of debate about lesbians and gays might be over.  People who disapprove of it, they’ll probably just go to another church.  So we’re in a transition and I think it’s a transition for the best, for the good.  I don’t think it’s something that you can parade, but it’s not a right or wrong thing as far as I’m concerned.”

          The right cringed.

          The left saw an opening.

          My guess is the phone is ringing in Lakeside, Montana.

          Then the man who has been used by God to bring me closer to Him, His, and the world in a John 3 kinda way said what I consider to be consistent with the Eugene that I know as a man of primary source with a reverence for Holy Scripture not distracted, plagued, or polluted by left or right but guided by the Holy Spirit: “When put on the spot by this particular interviewer, I said yes in the moment.  But on further reflection and prayer, I would like to retract that.  That’s not something I would do out of respect to the congregation, the larger church body, and the historic Biblical Christian view and teaching on marriage. That said, I would still love such a couple as their pastor.  They’d be welcome at my table, along with everybody else.”

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          Thank you, Eugene.

          Thank You, God, for keeping Eugene in my life as a catalyst for getting closer to You.

          Thank You, God, for using Eugene to open the Bible to people who can’t relate to Elizabethan English and other truncated tongues.

          Thank You, God, for Eugene who reminds us that You invite, welcome, include, and agape: “Come to Me, all of you, everyone, anyone, and I will take care of you.”

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          You can read more about how God continues to use Eugene in the lives of people like me in the May 1, 2016 edition of www.koppdisclosure.com.

          Yet, for now, maybe a word from his wife Jan during our time together sums up the problem with the celebrating, condemning, lionizing, demonizing, and other dolts who’ve missed the first few of the big ten, Psalms like the 62^nd, Beatitudes, and countless parallel textual revelations on the dangers of idolatry and blessings of increasing intimacy with Jesus by the book: “Some people are like farts in the elevator.  It takes just one.  Everyone suffers.  Nobody escapes.”

          Behind every good man is…

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Following Up...With A Hint from Brian and Bob

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    Following up on "Intimacy Before Incarnation" in the 7/11/17 edition...

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Scratching the Surface

 of

 A Personal Relationship with God

I’m often asked what Christians mean by a personal relationship with God by grace through faith in Jesus.

Before talking about how to get it, let’s talk about what it means.

It feels something like this: “And He walks with me, and He talks with me, and He tells me I am His own, and the joy we share as we tarry there none other has ever known.”

It includes “strong calm sanity” and irrepressible joy, happiness, and overall well-being amid the meanness, madness, misery, and miscreance of life in the modern world.

Does that sound good to you?

If that’s something you’d like to have/experience/express, you can have/experience/express it/Him.

It’s yours by grace through faith in Jesus.

Specifically, here’s how to have/experience/express a personal relationship with God.

Confess or admit you’re messed up a little or a lot but definitely messed up and need Him as Savior.

Repent or pledge right now that you’re going to change the direction of your life from egocentric to Christocentric according to the book.

Believe in Jesus as Lord and Savior; trusting Him for this life and after life so you have/experience/express confident living in the assurance of eternal life in paradise/heaven immediately after you exhale your last breath.

Receive His love!  That’s right!  He loves you!  Or as Eugene says, “The sooner we get the message, the better off we’ll be, for the message is good, incredibly good: God is here, and He’s on our side.”

Let’s pray:

Lord, I invite You for the first time…[or really this time or to renew/recharge my relationship with You]…into my heart as Lord and Savior.  I am sorry for how I have hurt You and hurt others which is the same as hurting You.  I need Your love, mercy, and forgiveness.  I welcome You into my heart.  I thank You for being in my heart now and forever.  I ask You to help me to be Yours from now on in all things at all times in all places with all people for Christ’s sake; as I pray in His name.  Amen!

Welcome home!

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    Here's a hint from Brian and Bob or preview of coming attractions.

    For a hint before the hint, go to the picture of a prototype being prepared for production (copyrighted).

    If you are familiar with Alpha through Omega, your spirit is stirring.

    Ours are!

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Reclaim the Bow

"Discovering Original Mercy"

(copyright pending, 2017)

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    For over a decade of increasing intimacy with Him and each other, Brian and Bob have known He brought them together for a reason/purpose/mission to honor Jesus by the book as guided by the Holy Spirit.

    Church planter Brian is the lead pastor of The Grove in Poplar Grove, Illinois.

    Iconoclastic mainline denominational credential-holder Bob is undershepherd of Belvidere, Illinois' First Presbyterian Church primarily known as "Our Family of Faith on the Corner of Lincoln and Main."

    Profoundly compelled by our Lord's great commandment, great commission, and high priestly prayer, a vision for incarnating the merciful message of the rainbow has been forming in their spirits and coalesced on July 13, 2017 between 3:00 - 6:00 p.m.

    Anyone familiar with the rainbow's symbolic and covenantal assurances will take the hint; yet the message in the movement is staggering, seismic, salty, enlightening, leavenating, and ultimately saving.

    Stay tuned!

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    The preceding paragraphs are the first hint of what's to come through Reclaim the Rainbow (Discovering Original Mercy).

    Though tempted to, uh, disclose some of the plans to show His mercy that will stun left, right, up and down and all around by the movement's radical and uncompromising devotion to the agape love of God so elegantly and romantically symbolized in the bow, exemplified in Jesus, and explained in Holy Scripture, let's just say, for now, those who have used the bow in the past from left, right, up and down and all around to promote their idiosyncratic ideologies only coincidentally related to the merciful message of Biblical Christianity will be shaken to salvific inquiry if not enthusiasm in the next several months.

    Really, while those familiar with the symbol may have some guesses, it's waaaaaaay beyond whatever you're thinking in a Colossians 3:1-4 kinda way.

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    Brian, who is much better at this than moi, says we need seed money to get the ball rolling.

    He's referring to domains, webs, social networking, legal stuff, material investments, promos, and, uh, I don't know.

    He estimates start-up costs of around 10-15K with expectations of quick self-and-expanding support.

    So if you're feeling nudged by the Holy Spirit right now to plant some seed $, you can send a check to The Grove (4210 Countryside Estates  Poplar Grove, Illinois 61065) or First Presbyterian Church (221 N. Main Street, Belvidere, Illinois 61008) and write "Reclaim the Bow" in the memo.

    You will be glad you did as we joins hands with Him to Reclaim the Bow!

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    So why did I lump a follow-up onto this hint?  Duh!  Because intimacy precedes incarnation!

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Blessings and Love!

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Shatter the sound of silence!

Wake up!  Look up!  Stand up!  Speak up!  Act up for Jesus!

Salt!  Shine!  Leavenate!

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Intimacy Before Incarnation

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Intimacy Before Incarnation

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I asked, “What is the church supposed to do?”

He answered, “The church is supposed to do what Jesus told it to do.”

January 1984

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          Every therapist needs a therapist.

          It’s hard to help heal if we’re not being healed.

          It’s like churches.

          Before churches tell others how Jesus can help them to get along better, it’s a good idea for churches to get along better by trying Him.

          It’s one of those practice what you preach things; or as Eric Clapton sings, “Before you accuse me, take a look at yourself.”

          Before we tell people how to fix their problems, let’s fix our own.

          Jesus was especially humbling, “Stop speck-inspecting!  Take the lumber out of your eyes and then you’ll see clearly enough to help remove the slivers from theirs!”

          It’s the only other thing I recall from the shrink at one of the places where I studied who helped me to understand the etiology of especially irascible, irregular, and irreconcilable people: “Problem people are usually constipated.  That’s why they dump on you.”

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          Helpful therapists are salty.

          They’ll sprinkle the salt that stings to save; or as the old priest said to the young priest in Georges Bernanos’ The Diary of a Country Priest, “Salt stings on an open wound but saves you from gangrene.”

          That’s why counseling, especially with families and marriages and wherever two or three are not always gathered in His name, can often cause more conflict than healing at the start.

          Digging up the roots below the surface is the best way to get rid of the weeds; but it means getting dirty and it’s rarely without blisters and blood.

          Yeah, we can get a script; and maybe that’ll be the bridge to better times.  Band-aids stop bleeding; but more often than not, only surgery can heal deep wounds.

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          God as well as anyone else not stoned knows churches are dying.

          It doesn’t take Barna or Gallup to convince us.

          Anybody who can’t see churches are past the Band-aid stage and need surgery reminds me of people who think elephants are mice with glandular problems.

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          While I may be wrong, I think one of the big reasons for dying churches is their lack of purpose.

          Ricky is right.

          To be more precise, however, churches are dying because they lack His purpose.

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          One of the sadder things in too many of today’s churches is their quest for relevancy.

          In their occasional prayers being drowned by endless meetings, conferences, consultations, workshops, organizational charts and re-structuring and data and survey results and other human ingenuities that continue to accelerate their spiraling decline to irrelevancy and extinction, they plead as they search for their raison d’etre so often overshadowed or masked by their collective ego-driven “claim to fame” lust.

          They want to be distinctly, remarkably, materially, and fiscally distinguishable with their ecclesiastical cheerleaders shouting in the background: “S-U-C-C-E-S-S!  That’s the way you spell success!”

          They want incarnation proving they’re tight with God.

          While wanting to prove a personally saving relationship in concrete ways is a good thing – a common theme of the apostle who got it from Jesus – incarnation never precedes intimacy.

          Intimacy with Jesus is the prerequisite of incarnation in/through/for Jesus.

          Before we can do what we’re supposed to do for Jesus, we’ve got to be so intimate and close and tight and breathing-as-one-heart with Him that we finally experience Him like the apostle: “It is no longer I who live but it is Jesus living in and through me.”

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          A church’s “claim to fame” or raison d’etre can never be incarnated before or apart from the intimacy with Him that yields revelation of predestined incarnation.

          The general purpose of a church is to know Him (intimacy) and then make Him known (incarnation).

The particular purpose of a church is to know Him and then make Him known by knowing Him so well that the particulars of making Him known are spiritually and supernaturally discerned before/then designed in classroom, conference, board room, around a coffee table, or wherever.

          It is “on earth as it is in heaven” when we start in heaven not earth; or as the apostle urged, “Seek the things that are above where He is so that you know what to do on earth.”

          Jesus said, “Seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and then God will take care of everything else.”

          First things first.

          Intimacy before/precedes incarnation.

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          Let me put it another way.

          When I asked a friend/pastor to tell me about the purpose of his church, he said, “We are trying to be the presence of God in our family of faith and for our community.”

          Immediately, the Tabernacle of Exodus came to mind.

          The Tabernacle was a tentlike structure that was to be God’s dwelling place among His people; and each part of the Tabernacle including the Ark of the Covenant, Mercy Seat, Table of Showbread, Golden Lampstand, and all of the rest symbolized God’s care, concern, and overcoming of worldliness. 

          Remembering how Grandpa Jacob Kopp always warned me about missing the forest for the trees, I’m not going to spend a great deal of time talking about the metaphors and spiritual lessons of each part of the Tabernacle; for as one of my more helpful professors once said, “You can’t build faith on broken pickle jars.”

          Yet, it is important to note two really important lessons from the Tabernacle for time and eternity.

          First, wherever it moved, God was there; and today that means God is in/through/for everyone when His people tabernacle or do church.  When God’s people are intimate with Him, their gatherings tabernacle or incarnate His presence in all things at all times in all places with all people.

          Second, just as God gave very precise instructions to Moses about the building, contents, and use of the Tabernacle, God’s people are tabernacling or incarnating His presence through intimate knowledge of Him as best known in Jesus by the book.  Any deviation, detour, distraction, distancing, or dissing of intimacy with God by grace through faith in Jesus inhibits incarnation of the Godly.

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          Not long after Jerry Kirk, pastor of Cincinnati, Ohio’s College Hill Presbyterian Church before founding the National Coalition Against Pornography and the Religious Alliance Against Pornography, told me churches are supposed to do what Jesus told them to do, he explained how he was called into the crusade against pornography.

          Seeing how families were being destroyed in his church by pornography, he screamed out, “Oh, God! Why don’t you do something?”

God replied, “Why don’t you do something?”

          His intimacy provoked the interrogative that provided the exclamation that evolved into the incarnation.

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          If we want to know God’s will for our lives, it’s not that hard to figure out.

          We get to know Him through Jesus by the book as guided by the Holy Spirit.

          The more we get to know Him through Jesus by the book, the more we’ll make Him known through our lives, marriages, families, churches, and all of the below.

          Again/always, intimacy before/precedes incarnation.

          Those who know Him intimately, make Him known incarnationally.

          More or less.

          So if we really want to know what we’re supposed to be doing for Christ’s sake, we’ve go to move close enough to hear Him.

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Blessings and Love!

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Shatter the sound of silence!

Wake up!  Look up!  Stand up!  Speak up!  Act up for Jesus!

Salt!  Shine!  Leavenate!

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