Thank you, brother Steve. Perhaps you can also post a link to your new books - very helpful and also along this same line/burden about abuse of authority, I believe...?
Very good observations on totalitarianism and how it may have seeped into the culture and teachings of us. I was thinking about Ananias and Sapphira after your last video. I'm sure that Sapphira was not happy about her submitting to her husband then. But wives so want to submit to husbands when they are loved by them. Our desire is for our husbands from the curse. And when our husbands truly love us, submission comes naturally. We don't need to be beaten into submission. We need to be "cherished and nourished." There is one thing lately I've been finding myself disagreeing with some. I respectfully disagree about the one church one city part in your videos some lately. And maybe I'm just not understanding correctly what you are saying. What I mean is we do worship in spirit and in truth and the Father is looking for us to do that. But it's also true that we meet "assembled" and that means we need to meet somewhere. If we are not meeting as one church in one city or locality, we are meeting usually based on some sort of preference: A pastor we like, the type of music we like, the race we are and naturally gather with, the minor teachings we agree with apart from the common faith that should be our oneness, the practices like styles of baptism, Pentecostal practices, etc. And all of these things are good on one side and things that divide us on the other. It is HARD to meet on the ground of being one with Christians we are able to assemble with regularly, solely because we are located close enough to gather. There is music that I prefer, there are people I prefer, there are teachers I prefer, etc. But there is GLORY and grace and learning in having to be physically gathered together whether we prefer any of those little things or not. I don't think it's a legal thing. It's putting your money where your mouth is, it's where the rubber meets the road, on not letting ANYTHING divide us. I love all the things that you are pointing out because there are things wrong that need to change. I've said this before but with the not throwing the baby out with the bathwater analogy, the baby is the standing together as one and letting go of the little preferences during those gathering times. (I listen to the music that I want to listen to and feel led to listen to apart from those times. I speak in tongues when I feel lead, etc.) The bath water is all the things that you are bringing up and it is time-past time-that we change that water that we are so clinging to somehow.
@@Peanut9527 Hi Javier! 😊 Thank you! Right, there are 12k population in our small town, and I would guess at least 1/3 are saved. So maybe 4000 are what I consider my brothers and sisters in the Lord, and how I long for all of us to be together, separated by nothing! It's confusing how to label everything accurately and healthily or if no label is the best. (And that's the problem on both sides.) But in every church in the New Testament, clearly there was only one per city. And that is not my thing. That was Paul and Jesus: "To the church in Ephesus, etc." I believe EVERYONE who has received the Lord as their Savior, the Holy Spirit in their heart, is a believer, Christian, saint, saved, a called out one, etc. And we are all a part of the universal church, the Body of Christ. It gets dicey and confusing once you get into the "local" part in our day and age which is what stinks about all of our divisions. 😕
Very good fellowsh!p, Ruth.
Thank you, brother Steve. Perhaps you can also post a link to your new books - very helpful and also along this same line/burden about abuse of authority, I believe...?
@@ruthwise2159 can you actually liberate North Korea please?
Speak up Ruth! Usually people have preferences! Keep spreading the good news!
What good news your talking about.
@@HappyAurora-zi2jcyour existence helps for sure dude 💩
Very good observations on totalitarianism and how it may have seeped into the culture and teachings of us.
I was thinking about Ananias and Sapphira after your last video. I'm sure that Sapphira was not happy about her submitting to her husband then.
But wives so want to submit to husbands when they are loved by them. Our desire is for our husbands from the curse. And when our husbands truly love us, submission comes naturally. We don't need to be beaten into submission. We need to be "cherished and nourished."
There is one thing lately I've been finding myself disagreeing with some.
I respectfully disagree about the one church one city part in your videos some lately. And maybe I'm just not understanding correctly what you are saying.
What I mean is we do worship in spirit and in truth and the Father is looking for us to do that. But it's also true that we meet "assembled" and that means we need to meet somewhere.
If we are not meeting as one church in one city or locality, we are meeting usually based on some sort of preference: A pastor we like, the type of music we like, the race we are and naturally gather with, the minor teachings we agree with apart from the common faith that should be our oneness, the practices like styles of baptism, Pentecostal practices, etc. And all of these things are good on one side and things that divide us on the other.
It is HARD to meet on the ground of being one with Christians we are able to assemble with regularly, solely because we are located close enough to gather. There is music that I prefer, there are people I prefer, there are teachers I prefer, etc. But there is GLORY and grace and learning in having to be physically gathered together whether we prefer any of those little things or not.
I don't think it's a legal thing. It's putting your money where your mouth is, it's where the rubber meets the road, on not letting ANYTHING divide us.
I love all the things that you are pointing out because there are things wrong that need to change.
I've said this before but with the not throwing the baby out with the bathwater analogy, the baby is the standing together as one and letting go of the little preferences during those gathering times. (I listen to the music that I want to listen to and feel led to listen to apart from those times. I speak in tongues when I feel lead, etc.)
The bath water is all the things that you are bringing up and it is time-past time-that we change that water that we are so clinging to somehow.
Mary, about how many saints are there in your locality?
@Peanut9527 We are small, maybe 20(??) when everyone is together.
@@maryscaletta7972
So there are only about 20 saints in your entire town/city? Are there no other believers?
You may call me Javier, by the way.
@@Peanut9527 Hi Javier! 😊 Thank you!
Right, there are 12k population in our small town, and I would guess at least 1/3 are saved. So maybe 4000 are what I consider my brothers and sisters in the Lord, and how I long for all of us to be together, separated by nothing!
It's confusing how to label everything accurately and healthily or if no label is the best. (And that's the problem on both sides.)
But in every church in the New Testament, clearly there was only one per city. And that is not my thing. That was Paul and Jesus: "To the church in Ephesus, etc."
I believe EVERYONE who has received the Lord as their Savior, the Holy Spirit in their heart, is a believer, Christian, saint, saved, a called out one, etc.
And we are all a part of the universal church, the Body of Christ.
It gets dicey and confusing once you get into the "local" part in our day and age which is what stinks about all of our divisions. 😕
@@maryscaletta7972
So, I’ll ask again:
How many saints are in your locality?
Jesus is the opposite - he sets us free. Any ism is a man made prison of the mind, heart and spirit. The LC is a prison camp masquerading as a church.