October 4th, 2009
Last night we closed the book, literally, on Frank Viola’s “From Eternity to Here” This has been a great study on God’s grand mission in the world. “It’s to expand the life and love that’s in the Trinitarian Community. It’s to increase the fellowship of the Godhead and reflect it on earth. This is God’s dream, His eternal purpose. To obtain a bride, a house, a family, and a body that is by Him, through Him and to Him.”
Four facets of the same entity – the church – the corporate Christ as God desires it to be expressed to the world. The life of Jesus hasn’t ended on earth, we, as members of that corporate Christ manifest His physical presence. We are a new community, a new humanity, a new species to make visible the invisible.
Now that’s something to live for!
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August 31st, 2009
When you think of or take a look at yourself do you see condemnation or guilt for past or current mistakes? Do you have a spiritual inferiority complex? Do you feel like you are unworthy of God? Well, if you do, you have no right to feel that way and it frustrates God.
Sure, in ourselves we are unworthy. But we are not in ourselves, we are IN CHRIST. That is where God sees us, inside the purity of Christ. In Christ, our faults and failures are unseen; forgiven and forgotten.
We, in the body of Christ, are the object of God’s lavish love. God desires nothing more than to pour out pure and perfect love upon us. It’s a love not based on our conduct but upon God’s conduct on the cross.
When we habitually look down ourselves it causes a divine frustration in the heavens. God has taken care of everything necessary for us to receive God’s love and live a life of freedom from condemnation. Accept that love and return it to God with gladness!
YOU are the object of God’s unbreakable affection!
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August 17th, 2009
In our second session of the book study on Frank Viola’s ”From Eternity To Here,” the discussion focused on how and why Eve came to be and how she and Adam are a beautiful metaphor of how and why the church came to be. Adam and Eve’s story are a shadow; a type, of Christ and the church.
A couple of parallels: Just as Eve came from Adams side when he was put into a deep sleep, Christ was put into a deep sleep, death, on the cross and through the piercing of His side the church, the bride of Christ, came into being. Eve was just like Adam, yet not him, and was Adam in a different form. The church is just like Christ, yet not Him, and Christ in a different form. We are His body.
God’s eternal purpose is fourfold, and all the same. The first that we are discussing is that God desired a counterpart, a bride for the Son, the church. This is one of the reasons God created the universe – All of creation is a statement of love from your God to you!
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August 9th, 2009
There has been a lot said about our purpose over the past years, well, what about God’s purpose?
In our MicroChurch we are going through the Frank Viola book “From Eternity To Here,” and what we are are learning is a whole new way of looking at the Scripture. The grand epic saga of the Bible carries one solid thread throughout that has for the most part been left out of what we typically hear on any given Sunday.
In this blog I will post the highlights of what we are discovering in our MicroChurch. Follow along with us if you like. Next Sunday we will have gone thru Chapter 4.
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August 3rd, 2009
We spent last night at MicroChurch looking at the new Jesus Manifesto written by Frank Viola and Leonard Sweet. It’s a call for us to put Jesus front and center, making Him preeminent in all things. We had a good discussion going over the manifesto point by point and gaining new understandings about the magnificence of our Lord.
If you haven’t seen the manifesto look
here.
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