Smallest Seed

Giphy Christ is coming back soon, so most churches and ministries today work double-time to "evangelize" people by hook or by crook. They'd do anything that works, especially anything that cramps people into their church buildings. The common notion is that the Great Commission is done by upping church membership. Once their churches have become mega in membership, you see the happy, fulfilled expressions on their faces, thinking they have done God's will. And often, they look down on other churches that have remained small and "not growing." To them, growth is none other than numerical (especially financial), although sometimes they may hint on seemingly favoring "quality spiritual growth." But don't count on it. They only say that to sound spiritual. In reality, growth to them is numerical, period. Numbers in membership and finances. Ministry with a Worldly System Almost everyone has forgotten that everything should be done as Je

Because most churches today are merely concerned of external aesthetics (how beautiful everything in church looks), they belong to what I call the LoGOTO ministry. Nice building, program, income, membership, music, activities, ministries. Nice all, as far as the physical eyes can see. King Saul was concerned about looking good on the outside (LoGOTO). Though he understood the principle of seeking the Lord's favor first before doing anything [1 Samuel 13.12] to win big battles, he did it the wrong way. He felt compelled to do it himself instead of letting Samuel do it. It's important to seek the Lord's favor to win battles, not seek blessings. Many churches just seek blessings but lose spiritual battles. However, there is a Kingdom protocol for getting God's favor. First, worship must be done God's way. That time, the requirement was that only a priest could offer burnt offerings. Saul was not a priest so he should've let Samuel, priest and prophet o

Now and then I read my own e-books---what I wrote years ago---and I often marvel. Was it really me who wrote them? They sound so radical and out-of-this-world (or stuff definitely not for churchy folks). Like this e-book, "God's Flesh" which I started writing, I think, in 2002. The original book is already lost so I started writing a new God's Flesh in 2005. This is the present God's Flesh e-book I'm selling now. And reading it again today, I was blessed with new revelations. It sounded like somebody else wrote it, not me. Can I write something like that? To buy the e-book through Paypal and get a PDF copy, click here. I was amazed especially by what I said on glory---increasing glory versus fading glory, fading life, mirrored glory, surpassing glory, transformed versus changed, never-perish life, ever-increasing glory and what clay jars really are, among many others. The radical insights are something you won't hear in most churches or in semi

Adhesives & Sealants Industry Here's Part 1 Residual income is income you get even after a sale is done and over. You still get income from that one sale you made a long time ago, and that income never stops. That's earthly marketing. Something like that also happens in the spiritual realms. Sharing God's Word to people and living out the Word of God daily (living the LIFE of Jesus daily) brings you great rewards. In fact, anything done for God and his Kingdom according to God's Word brings you rewards. God is not unjust; he will not forget your work and the love you have shown him as you have helped his people and continue to help them. [Hebrews 6.10] And another promise goes like this: Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain. [1 Corinthians 15.58] Continuing Blessings But blessings in Christ are not just one-time affairs. They keep going on---provided you continue to sh

From the site 123RF It's all so wonderful! Working for God in his Kingdom is very profitable. Whether you are a sower, a reaper, the one who waters or all of the above, you earn "points" that translate to rewards in God's Kingdom. The one who plants and the one who waters have one purpose, and they will each be rewarded according to their own labor. [1 Corinthians 3.8] You see two things here: 1. The one who plants and the one who waters should "have one purpose." As long as they have one purpose, everything will be fun and smooth sailing. The problem happens if they have opposing purposes. For instance, if churches are in competition because they have different denominations. They try to outdo each other in evangelism, ending up grabbing people from each other. One church may even say the other church "stole" its members. Clearly, they don't have one purpose, so what they do is not God's work---because God's work, acc

wallpaperup.com This is how Jesus envisioned the church: "The gates of hell shall not prevail against it." This gives us a picture of a fierce battle, with the church in the offensive and hell in the defensive. And Jesus himself will build this church for this purpose---for war. Clearly, the church is an army of believers. More than singing and Sunday worship programs and performing traditional rituals, the church is for training warriors. Specifically, believers should be trained how to wear and use the armor of God and eventually become experts at it. This is the only real use of church---or the gathering of believers in Jesus' Name, nothing more nothing less. For deeper insights on what a true Jesus believer should be, this e-book will help. Click this link to check it out. Singing, choir, Sunday programs, concerts, and other traditional church activities are really of no use. You cannot attack the gates of hell by perfecting your tenor or bass voice or by

pixabay.com If you can't believe perfection, how else are you going to believe Christ's other teachings? Lots of church people and preachers trash perfection because they like to keep their status as "saved sinners." They keep holding on to that and plan to die with it. They often even shout their slogans: "Nobody is perfect, and you cannot be perfect. There's no perfect church!" They don't realize how they're beginning to sound like detractors than promoters of God's Kingdom on earth and God's plan for his "glorious" church. But ironically, these same people flaunt around their high standards. They like to show people how they post nothing on Facebook except bible verses. They like people to know that they are strict and want nothing but "the best" for God. For instance, you may see them practicing their songs or special numbers for long hours, repeating their rehearsals again and again, spending late ni