goodbye streams, hello body
Feb 18, 2014 6:15:16 GMT -5
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Post by hearingGod on Feb 18, 2014 6:15:16 GMT -5
From John Fenn CWOWI E-Newsletter, 02/18/2014...
I’ve been thinking on the word from the Father I shared last fall about how we would see the passing of a generation in the coming months through this fall’s election cycle in the US in faith, politics, and entertainment. His point concerning the body of Christ was to notice there are no ‘big names’ to replace them because this move is a move of, and from within, the body of Christ.
Around that time Pastor Chuck Smith of Costa Mesa, a key leader in the ‘Jesus movement’ of the 1960/1970’s but not a fan of charismatics, died. A couple weeks later Ed Dufresne died in a plane crash, from the charismatic ‘stream’ of the faith. This past week Bob Jones died, most noted perhaps for the Kansas City/prophetic stream, to name just three representatives of a passing generation in three different streams of faith.
There will soon be more to come in different streams as the Lord uses these passings to try to get people’s attention, that some might ‘wake up’ and realize the Lord is moving as a body, not in individual streams of the faith, here and there, but overall as the whole body of Christ.
I remember back when we had the Clinton/Monica Lewinsky and financial scandals and I asked the Father why He allowed such embarrassments to happen. He said this, “I allowed the private life of the President to be played out in the headlines of this nation because he represents the sins of his generation, which are primarily 2; sexual lust and greed. That some would look at his life and say, ‘Oh my, that is me and I need to change’, and repent, and that some might say, ‘See, he is just like me’ and make the decision to continue in their sin.
The same type of thing is happening right now in the body of Christ as one generation of various ‘streams’ of faith pass, leaving us to contemplate our lives and look to Him because there are no leaders in their streams rising to take their place. This is God, again, because this is a move of the body, not of streams. The body of Christ is therefore faced with looking to the Lord and not man for what He is doing, which is unsettling for some.
This is a grass roots, groundswell flow. This is relationship based faith which is a lifestyle, not just going to church as something we do like we’d schedule a dentist appointment. It isn’t a stream of faith able to be pinpointed as followers of x minister or x system of believing – this is a lifestyle of faith that transcends previous denominational and stream boundaries, where the Word and Spirit are in balance, practicing faith as patterned in the New Testament. This is the rising of Bible culture Christianity all over the world, not ‘churchianity’.
Around that time Pastor Chuck Smith of Costa Mesa, a key leader in the ‘Jesus movement’ of the 1960/1970’s but not a fan of charismatics, died. A couple weeks later Ed Dufresne died in a plane crash, from the charismatic ‘stream’ of the faith. This past week Bob Jones died, most noted perhaps for the Kansas City/prophetic stream, to name just three representatives of a passing generation in three different streams of faith.
There will soon be more to come in different streams as the Lord uses these passings to try to get people’s attention, that some might ‘wake up’ and realize the Lord is moving as a body, not in individual streams of the faith, here and there, but overall as the whole body of Christ.
I remember back when we had the Clinton/Monica Lewinsky and financial scandals and I asked the Father why He allowed such embarrassments to happen. He said this, “I allowed the private life of the President to be played out in the headlines of this nation because he represents the sins of his generation, which are primarily 2; sexual lust and greed. That some would look at his life and say, ‘Oh my, that is me and I need to change’, and repent, and that some might say, ‘See, he is just like me’ and make the decision to continue in their sin.
The same type of thing is happening right now in the body of Christ as one generation of various ‘streams’ of faith pass, leaving us to contemplate our lives and look to Him because there are no leaders in their streams rising to take their place. This is God, again, because this is a move of the body, not of streams. The body of Christ is therefore faced with looking to the Lord and not man for what He is doing, which is unsettling for some.
This is a grass roots, groundswell flow. This is relationship based faith which is a lifestyle, not just going to church as something we do like we’d schedule a dentist appointment. It isn’t a stream of faith able to be pinpointed as followers of x minister or x system of believing – this is a lifestyle of faith that transcends previous denominational and stream boundaries, where the Word and Spirit are in balance, practicing faith as patterned in the New Testament. This is the rising of Bible culture Christianity all over the world, not ‘churchianity’.
. Just kidding ! I think the time of "big ministry" in this country is disappearing. God's not interested in men building their own kingdoms & having mega churches. I would be surprised if we see any more of those rise up in the U.S. 
