#brotherhood — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #brotherhood, aggregated by home.social.
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Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood - Ending 5
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Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood - Opening 5
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Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood - Opening 3
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Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood - Ending 4
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Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood - Ending 2
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Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood - Ending 1
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Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood - Ending Final
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Justice, Faith, and Brotherhood: Reflections on Rawls, Christianity, Freemasonry, and Modern Politics
After writing my previous reflection on John Rawls and his idea of justice behind a “veil of ignorance,” I found myself continuing to sit with the question of fairness in society. Not just as a philosophical exercise, but as something deeply personal. Over time, that question does not stay in the classroom. It moves into how we see the world, how we interpret faith, how we understand brotherhood, and even how we engage with modern political movements. As a Christian, and someone who […] -
Justice, Faith, and Brotherhood: Reflections on Rawls, Christianity, Freemasonry, and Modern Politics
After writing my previous reflection on John Rawls and his idea of justice behind a “veil of ignorance,” I found myself continuing to sit with the question of fairness in society. Not just as a philosophical exercise, but as something deeply personal. Over time, that question does not stay in the classroom. It moves into how we see the world, how we interpret faith, how we understand brotherhood, and even how we engage with modern political movements. As a Christian, and someone who […] -
Justice, Faith, and Brotherhood: Reflections on Rawls, Christianity, Freemasonry, and Modern Politics
After writing my previous reflection on John Rawls and his idea of justice behind a “veil of ignorance,” I found myself continuing to sit with the question of fairness in society. Not just as a philosophical exercise, but as something deeply personal. Over time, that question does not stay in the classroom. It moves into how we see the world, how we interpret faith, how we understand brotherhood, and even how we engage with modern political movements. As a Christian, and someone who […] -
Justice, Faith, and Brotherhood: Reflections on Rawls, Christianity, Freemasonry, and Modern Politics
After writing my previous reflection on John Rawls and his idea of justice behind a “veil of ignorance,” I found myself continuing to sit with the question of fairness in society. Not just as a philosophical exercise, but as something deeply personal. Over time, that question does not stay in the classroom. It moves into how we see the world, how we interpret faith, how we understand brotherhood, and even how we engage with modern political movements. As a Christian, and someone who […] -
Justice, Faith, and Brotherhood: Reflections on Rawls, Christianity, Freemasonry, and Modern Politics
After writing my previous reflection on John Rawls and his idea of justice behind a “veil of ignorance,” I found myself continuing to sit with the question of fairness in society. Not just as a philosophical exercise, but as something deeply personal. Over time, that question does not stay in the classroom. It moves into how we see the world, how we interpret faith, how we understand brotherhood, and even how we engage with modern political movements. As a Christian, and someone who […] -
Most men have "football buddies" but no one who knows their soul. It’s time to bridge the Empathy Gap and find the iron that sharpens. Stop surviving in isolation; start thriving in the forge. 🛠️🔥
#ChristianMen #Brotherhood #IronSharpensIron
https://bdking71.wordpress.com/2026/04/23/the-empty-stool-at-the-anvil/
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"Bizarre Love Triangle" is a song by English #rock band New Order, released as a single in November 1986 from their fourth studio album, #Brotherhood (1986). The song reached No. 4 on the US #Billboard #DanceDiscoClubPlay chart and No. 5 on the Australian #KentMusicReport in March 1987. It failed to enter the top 40 of both the #UKSinglesChart and the US Billboard Hot 100; however, a new mix included on #TheBestOfNewOrder was released in 1994.
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Die neuen #Instagram #Adbreaks sind genial, denn es ist immer der perfekte Zeitpunkt auszusteigen.
Geklaut von meinem Bruder Harry Lampl mit dem ich am 23. Mai 2026 im Greith-Haus Sankt Ulrich als "Die Direktträger" das #Pfingstfest einleiten werden!
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Die neuen #Instagram #Adbreaks sind genial, denn es ist immer der perfekte Zeitpunkt auszusteigen.
Geklaut von meinem Bruder Harry Lampl mit dem ich am 23. Mai 2026 im Greith-Haus Sankt Ulrich als "Die Direktträger" das #Pfingstfest einleiten werden!
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Die neuen #Instagram #Adbreaks sind genial, denn es ist immer der perfekte Zeitpunkt auszusteigen.
Geklaut von meinem Bruder Harry Lampl mit dem ich am 23. Mai 2026 im Greith-Haus Sankt Ulrich als "Die Direktträger" das #Pfingstfest einleiten werden!
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Die neuen #Instagram #Adbreaks sind genial, denn es ist immer der perfekte Zeitpunkt auszusteigen.
Geklaut von meinem Bruder Harry Lampl mit dem ich am 23. Mai 2026 im Greith-Haus Sankt Ulrich als "Die Direktträger" das #Pfingstfest einleiten werden!
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Die neuen #Instagram #Adbreaks sind genial, denn es ist immer der perfekte Zeitpunkt auszusteigen.
Geklaut von meinem Bruder Harry Lampl mit dem ich am 23. Mai 2026 im Greith-Haus Sankt Ulrich als "Die Direktträger" das #Pfingstfest einleiten werden!
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Dear comrades! Join digital Brotherhood of mystical anarchists, if you share our values:
1. We believe in power of human mind, we believe in telepathy and other parapsychological practices. After the Revolution, human mind will be free and in a new society, when exploitation and inequality would become obsolete – people will transfer their thoughts directly to each other. Many other phenomena that considered to be supernatural will become natural… Until then parapsychological techniques are a peaceful, legal and elegant way to get an advantage in your struggle against cops, state agents, capitalists and the right.
2. We believe that there are 2 main obstacles are not letting people to use such phenomena as telepathy as they please – and such obstacles are the hierarchy of state and hierarchy of capital. Both of them would sustain a blow if anyone could influence anyone through telepathy. State is destroying through violence, denying through science and ridiculing through mass media, while capital is creating frauds, by encouraging greed and lust for fame and thus destroying the trust among the people in the power of their own mind.
3. Official science is an institute of our hierarchical and unequal society and thus politically biased. Most of the themes of research that are opposing status quo is just ignored or denied by it – same with telepathy and parapsychology. But it doesn’t mean that it is not existing at all.
4. We are always looking for different techniques that could prove useful after the revolution and during the current struggles. We are spreading them along our members freely.
5. We oppose any religious or commercial element in our techniques – all phenomena is your mind and nature only.
6. We are always experimenting, gathering knowledge about new parapsychological methods and sharing experience about it among each other.
7. We should be ready to join the anarchic Revolution in any country to earn respect among the people and therefore spread our methods among comrades through educational structures of a new society in case of victory.
8. Our brotherhood is an ideological successor of the first order of mystical anarchists – Order of light, founded in 1917 in Russia and brutally destroyed by Stalinist regime in 1937.In order to avoid the fate of our predecessor, which had worked openly – we instead believe in anonymity – use all instruments for maximum protection of your identity.
PM me to join our brotherhood, turn your mind into a weapon and project your will upon destruction of the hierarchy! :anarchismred:
#anarchy #anarchism #join #parapsychology #telepathy #anarchomysticism #brotherhood #occult #mind #freedom #left #Revolution #remoteviewing #psychic #struggle #fight #manifesto #group #mysticalanarchism -
Dear comrades! Join digital Brotherhood of mystical anarchists, if you share our values:
1. We believe in power of human mind, we believe in telepathy and other parapsychological practices. After the Revolution, human mind will be free and in a new society, when exploitation and inequality would become obsolete – people will transfer their thoughts directly to each other. Many other phenomena that considered to be supernatural will become natural… Until then parapsychological techniques are a peaceful, legal and elegant way to get an advantage in your struggle against cops, state agents, capitalists and the right.
2. We believe that there are 2 main obstacles are not letting people to use such phenomena as telepathy as they please – and such obstacles are the hierarchy of state and hierarchy of capital. Both of them would sustain a blow if anyone could influence anyone through telepathy. State is destroying through violence, denying through science and ridiculing through mass media, while capital is creating frauds, by encouraging greed and lust for fame and thus destroying the trust among the people in the power of their own mind.
3. Official science is an institute of our hierarchical and unequal society and thus politically biased. Most of the themes of research that are opposing status quo is just ignored or denied by it – same with telepathy and parapsychology. But it doesn’t mean that it is not existing at all.
4. We are always looking for different techniques that could prove useful after the revolution and during the current struggles. We are spreading them along our members freely.
5. We oppose any religious or commercial element in our techniques – all phenomena is your mind and nature only.
6. We are always experimenting, gathering knowledge about new parapsychological methods and sharing experience about it among each other.
7. We should be ready to join the anarchic Revolution in any country to earn respect among the people and therefore spread our methods among comrades through educational structures of a new society in case of victory.
8. Our brotherhood is an ideological successor of the first order of mystical anarchists – Order of light, founded in 1917 in Russia and brutally destroyed by Stalinist regime in 1937.In order to avoid the fate of our predecessor, which had worked openly – we instead believe in anonymity – use all instruments for maximum protection of your identity.
PM me to join our brotherhood, turn your mind into a weapon and project your will upon destruction of the hierarchy! :anarchismred:
#anarchy #anarchism #join #parapsychology #telepathy #anarchomysticism #brotherhood #occult #mind #freedom #left #Revolution #remoteviewing #psychic #struggle #fight #manifesto #group #mysticalanarchism -
Dear comrades! Join digital Brotherhood of mystical anarchists, if you share our values:
1. We believe in power of human mind, we believe in telepathy and other parapsychological practices. After the Revolution, human mind will be free and in a new society, when exploitation and inequality would become obsolete – people will transfer their thoughts directly to each other. Many other phenomena that considered to be supernatural will become natural… Until then parapsychological techniques are a peaceful, legal and elegant way to get an advantage in your struggle against cops, state agents, capitalists and the right.
2. We believe that there are 2 main obstacles are not letting people to use such phenomena as telepathy as they please – and such obstacles are the hierarchy of state and hierarchy of capital. Both of them would sustain a blow if anyone could influence anyone through telepathy. State is destroying through violence, denying through science and ridiculing through mass media, while capital is creating frauds, by encouraging greed and lust for fame and thus destroying the trust among the people in the power of their own mind.
3. Official science is an institute of our hierarchical and unequal society and thus politically biased. Most of the themes of research that are opposing status quo is just ignored or denied by it – same with telepathy and parapsychology. But it doesn’t mean that it is not existing at all.
4. We are always looking for different techniques that could prove useful after the revolution and during the current struggles. We are spreading them along our members freely.
5. We oppose any religious or commercial element in our techniques – all phenomena is your mind and nature only.
6. We are always experimenting, gathering knowledge about new parapsychological methods and sharing experience about it among each other.
7. We should be ready to join the anarchic Revolution in any country to earn respect among the people and therefore spread our methods among comrades through educational structures of a new society in case of victory.
8. Our brotherhood is an ideological successor of the first order of mystical anarchists – Order of light, founded in 1917 in Russia and brutally destroyed by Stalinist regime in 1937.In order to avoid the fate of our predecessor, which had worked openly – we instead believe in anonymity – use all instruments for maximum protection of your identity.
PM me to join our brotherhood, turn your mind into a weapon and project your will upon destruction of the hierarchy! :anarchismred:
#anarchy #anarchism #join #parapsychology #telepathy #anarchomysticism #brotherhood #occult #mind #freedom #left #Revolution #remoteviewing #psychic #struggle #fight #manifesto #group #mysticalanarchism -
Dear comrades! Join digital Brotherhood of mystical anarchists, if you share our values:
1. We believe in power of human mind, we believe in telepathy and other parapsychological practices. After the Revolution, human mind will be free and in a new society, when exploitation and inequality would become obsolete – people will transfer their thoughts directly to each other. Many other phenomena that considered to be supernatural will become natural… Until then parapsychological techniques are a peaceful, legal and elegant way to get an advantage in your struggle against cops, state agents, capitalists and the right.
2. We believe that there are 2 main obstacles are not letting people to use such phenomena as telepathy as they please – and such obstacles are the hierarchy of state and hierarchy of capital. Both of them would sustain a blow if anyone could influence anyone through telepathy. State is destroying through violence, denying through science and ridiculing through mass media, while capital is creating frauds, by encouraging greed and lust for fame and thus destroying the trust among the people in the power of their own mind.
3. Official science is an institute of our hierarchical and unequal society and thus politically biased. Most of the themes of research that are opposing status quo is just ignored or denied by it – same with telepathy and parapsychology. But it doesn’t mean that it is not existing at all.
4. We are always looking for different techniques that could prove useful after the revolution and during the current struggles. We are spreading them along our members freely.
5. We oppose any religious or commercial element in our techniques – all phenomena is your mind and nature only.
6. We are always experimenting, gathering knowledge about new parapsychological methods and sharing experience about it among each other.
7. We should be ready to join the anarchic Revolution in any country to earn respect among the people and therefore spread our methods among comrades through educational structures of a new society in case of victory.
8. Our brotherhood is an ideological successor of the first order of mystical anarchists – Order of light, founded in 1917 in Russia and brutally destroyed by Stalinist regime in 1937.In order to avoid the fate of our predecessor, which had worked openly – we instead believe in anonymity – use all instruments for maximum protection of your identity.
PM me to join our brotherhood, turn your mind into a weapon and project your will upon destruction of the hierarchy! :anarchismred:
#anarchy #anarchism #join #parapsychology #telepathy #anarchomysticism #brotherhood #occult #mind #freedom #left #Revolution #remoteviewing #psychic #struggle #fight #manifesto #group #mysticalanarchism -
Dear comrades! Join digital Brotherhood of mystical anarchists, if you share our values:
1. We believe in power of human mind, we believe in telepathy and other parapsychological practices. After the Revolution, human mind will be free and in a new society, when exploitation and inequality would become obsolete – people will transfer their thoughts directly to each other. Many other phenomena that considered to be supernatural will become natural… Until then parapsychological techniques are a peaceful, legal and elegant way to get an advantage in your struggle against cops, state agents, capitalists and the right.
2. We believe that there are 2 main obstacles are not letting people to use such phenomena as telepathy as they please – and such obstacles are the hierarchy of state and hierarchy of capital. Both of them would sustain a blow if anyone could influence anyone through telepathy. State is destroying through violence, denying through science and ridiculing through mass media, while capital is creating frauds, by encouraging greed and lust for fame and thus destroying the trust among the people in the power of their own mind.
3. Official science is an institute of our hierarchical and unequal society and thus politically biased. Most of the themes of research that are opposing status quo is just ignored or denied by it – same with telepathy and parapsychology. But it doesn’t mean that it is not existing at all.
4. We are always looking for different techniques that could prove useful after the revolution and during the current struggles. We are spreading them along our members freely.
5. We oppose any religious or commercial element in our techniques – all phenomena is your mind and nature only.
6. We are always experimenting, gathering knowledge about new parapsychological methods and sharing experience about it among each other.
7. We should be ready to join the anarchic Revolution in any country to earn respect among the people and therefore spread our methods among comrades through educational structures of a new society in case of victory.
8. Our brotherhood is an ideological successor of the first order of mystical anarchists – Order of light, founded in 1917 in Russia and brutally destroyed by Stalinist regime in 1937.In order to avoid the fate of our predecessor, which had worked openly – we instead believe in anonymity – use all instruments for maximum protection of your identity.
PM me to join our brotherhood, turn your mind into a weapon and project your will upon destruction of the hierarchy! :anarchismred:
#anarchy #anarchism #join #parapsychology #telepathy #anarchomysticism #brotherhood #occult #mind #freedom #left #Revolution #remoteviewing #psychic #struggle #fight #manifesto #group #mysticalanarchism -
If you're a man struggling and need someone to talk to, my DMs are open.
I'm not a psychologist and won't pretend to be. I'll listen without judgment and point you to people who can actually help.
I'm just a man who believes your pain is real and valid. Men's issues are real, male suffering is real, and you are not weak for struggling.
You are not alone and not broken.
I can't always reply immediately but I will reply. 🤝
#MensHealth #MensMentalHealth #MensIssues #Stoicism #Brotherhood
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If you're a man struggling and need someone to talk to, my DMs are open.
I'm not a psychologist and won't pretend to be. I'll listen without judgment and point you to people who can actually help.
I'm just a man who believes your pain is real and valid. Men's issues are real, male suffering is real, and you are not weak for struggling.
You are not alone and not broken.
I can't always reply immediately but I will reply. 🤝
#MensHealth #MensMentalHealth #MensIssues #Stoicism #Brotherhood
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If you're a man struggling and need someone to talk to, my DMs are open.
I'm not a psychologist and won't pretend to be. I'll listen without judgment and point you to people who can actually help.
I'm just a man who believes your pain is real and valid. Men's issues are real, male suffering is real, and you are not weak for struggling.
You are not alone and not broken.
I can't always reply immediately but I will reply. 🤝
#MensHealth #MensMentalHealth #MensIssues #Stoicism #Brotherhood
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If you're a man struggling and need someone to talk to, my DMs are open.
I'm not a psychologist and won't pretend to be. I'll listen without judgment and point you to people who can actually help.
I'm just a man who believes your pain is real and valid. Men's issues are real, male suffering is real, and you are not weak for struggling.
You are not alone and not broken.
I can't always reply immediately but I will reply. 🤝
#MensHealth #MensMentalHealth #MensIssues #Stoicism #Brotherhood
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If you're a man struggling and need someone to talk to, my DMs are open.
I'm not a psychologist and won't pretend to be. I'll listen without judgment and point you to people who can actually help.
I'm just a man who believes your pain is real and valid. Men's issues are real, male suffering is real, and you are not weak for struggling.
You are not alone and not broken.
I can't always reply immediately but I will reply. 🤝
#MensHealth #MensMentalHealth #MensIssues #Stoicism #Brotherhood
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The Boys in the Light: Extraordinary WWII Story of Survival, Faith & Brotherhood "This beautifully braided story...reveals the best & worst of humanity" Sale: $35 to $1.99 by Nina Willner Rating: 4.7/5 (1,122 Reviews) #WWII #Holocaust #Survival #History #Biography #Courage #Brotherhood #BookSky
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Vinnie and Jac Discuss Their Bond #kcroyals #interview #baseball #brotherhood https://www.rawchili.com/4934036/ #Arizona #ballpark #Baseball #BaseballSeason #CactusLeague #CHAMPS #JacCaglianone #KansasCity #KansasCityRoyals #KansasCityRoyals #KauffmanStadium #KCRoyals #KCMO #MadeInKC #MajorLeagueBaseball #MajorLeagues #MLB #Royals #sports #SpringTraining #summer #surprise #TheBigLeagues #TheK #VinniePasquantino #VisitKC #WorldChampions
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Vinnie and Jac Discuss Their Bond #kcroyals #interview #baseball #brotherhood https://www.rawchili.com/4934036/ #Arizona #ballpark #Baseball #BaseballSeason #CactusLeague #CHAMPS #JacCaglianone #KansasCity #KansasCityRoyals #KansasCityRoyals #KauffmanStadium #KCRoyals #KCMO #MadeInKC #MajorLeagueBaseball #MajorLeagues #MLB #Royals #sports #SpringTraining #summer #surprise #TheBigLeagues #TheK #VinniePasquantino #VisitKC #WorldChampions
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#TrumpVirus #war (within & projected)
vs. #Peace #democracy #civilization #rationality #collaboration #diplomacy #WeThePeople #truth #brotherhood
A madman enabled by equally #evil #GQP Congress & #disinformation #media who seem not to see or care.
He is not America, not even at its worst.
He is not a normal human, much less someone fit to serve the people, including those in his #cult, who suffer too. :-(
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#TrumpVirus #war (within & projected)
vs. #Peace #democracy #civilization #rationality #collaboration #diplomacy #WeThePeople #truth #brotherhood
A madman enabled by equally #evil #GQP Congress & #disinformation #media who seem not to see or care.
He is not America, not even at its worst.
He is not a normal human, much less someone fit to serve the people, including those in his #cult, who suffer too. :-(
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#TrumpVirus #war (within & projected)
vs. #Peace #democracy #civilization #rationality #collaboration #diplomacy #WeThePeople #truth #brotherhood
A madman enabled by equally #evil #GQP Congress & #disinformation #media who seem not to see or care.
He is not America, not even at its worst.
He is not a normal human, much less someone fit to serve the people, including those in his #cult, who suffer too. :-(
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#TrumpVirus #war (within & projected)
vs. #Peace #democracy #civilization #rationality #collaboration #diplomacy #WeThePeople #truth #brotherhood
A madman enabled by equally #evil #GQP Congress & #disinformation #media who seem not to see or care.
He is not America, not even at its worst.
He is not a normal human, much less someone fit to serve the people, including those in his #cult, who suffer too. :-(
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#TrumpVirus #war (within & projected)
vs. #Peace #democracy #civilization #rationality #collaboration #diplomacy #WeThePeople #truth #brotherhood
A madman enabled by equally #evil #GQP Congress & #disinformation #media who seem not to see or care.
He is not America, not even at its worst.
He is not a normal human, much less someone fit to serve the people, including those in his #cult, who suffer too. :-(
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Big Bois Gaming isn’t just a clan — it’s a brotherhood.
When Frankly Haunted, Chillerek369, and the rest of the crew hit Twitch, it’s all vibes, teamwork, and pure chaos in the best way.
We grind together, laugh together, and always have each other’s backs.
If you’re into real camaraderie and unfiltered gaming energy, you’re in the right place.💥 Big Bois Gaming — Always Hungry
#Gaming #TwitchStreamers #GamingCommunity #StreamerSquad #Brotherhood #PolishGamers #FPS #CoopGaming #TwitchPolska -
A quotation from Josh Billings
Man iz mi brother, and i konsider that i am nearer related tew him through hiz vices, than i am through hiz virtews.
[Man is my brother, and I consider that I am nearer related to him through his vices, than I am through his virtues.]Josh Billings (1818-1885) American humorist, aphorist [pseud. of Henry Wheeler Shaw]
Josh Billings’ Farmer’s Allminax, 1871-07 (1871 ed.)More about this quote: wist.info/billings-josh/82682/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #joshbillings #brotherhood #commonality #humancondition #humanity #incommon #vices #virtues #humannature
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Henry still brought hay to the barn every day for his brother Horton, who sadly passed away years ago. Thank you thegentlebarn (IG) for sharing this beautiful display of his boundless love. ❤️🕊️ 🎥 thegentlebarn (IG) edited by VeganFTA #brotherhood #farmsanctuary #bekindtoanimals #pigs
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https://www.europesays.com/es/412354/ Bruno Mars desvela el tracklist de su disco ‘The Romantic’: 9 canciones y dos ausencias inesperadas #andalusia #believers #brotherhood #catholic #catholicism #celebration #christ #Culture #easter #Entertainment #Entretenimiento #ES #España #Europe #feast #holy #HolyWeek #LágrimasYFavores #Málaga #march #Music #Música #palm #PalmSunday #penitent #penitents #procession #religión #religious #Spain #tourism #tradition
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Bruins alumni play Manchester firefighters in charity hockey game https://www.rawchili.com/nhl/459551/ #Alumni #App #Boston #BostonBruins #BostonBruinsAlumnus #BostonBruins #brotherhood #Bruins #CharityGame #CharityHockeyGame #Death #download #firefighters #god #Hockey #job #ManchesterFireDepartment #ManchesterFirefighter #MentalHealth #MentalHealthInitiative #NewHampshire #nh #NHL #PeerSupportGroup #President #sports #sunday #Update
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Engaging the culture without losing the gospel
As the culture changes all around us, it is no longer possible to pretend that Christians are a Moral Majority. For the Christadelphian community it was already very clear that Christendom had gone astray and that not many people knew the essence of the Divine Creator and His Plan.
Guestspeaker’s 1° article 2014 March 26 on “From Guestwriters”In certain parts of the world we may find mega churches, like in the United states of America. But what we also see in those countries is that there is a very strange discrepancy between the way of life and the way presented in the Holy Scriptures. In the talks about pro-life issues and arguments at our website From Guestwriters this is made clear in the different reactions where some readers point out at the huge amount of abortions been done every day. Such points of discussion as the abortion debate show how values and attitudes have changed over the years.
Those people who call themselves Christian either are not so much interested in having an active faith or going to worship services or when they want to go to worship services they expect them to be relaxing and entertaining. For many the entertaining factor receives priority. This makes it understandable why certain churches in the States get full house whilst the churches really interested in and giving eye and ear for the Word of God do not have so many people coming to their service.
In general people are very much influenced by the media and television and show business are not the instruments who, today, bring the people to God. the television church services are full of show elements and short quoting form a few words taken from Scripture but also taken out of context. No time is given to sincerely listen and to sincerely study a full paragraph of a Bible chapter.
Our very fast changing world can do with a sort of new reformation. What’s needed now, in shifting times, is neither a doubling-down on the status quo nor a pullback into isolation. Instead, we need a church that speaks to social and political issues with a bigger vision in mind: that of the gospel of Jesus Christ. As Christianity seems increasingly strange, and even subversive, to our culture, we have the opportunity to reclaim the freakishness of the gospel, which is what gives it its power in the first place.
We should seek the kingdom of God, before everything else and we should love to bring others to the entrance gate of that Kingdom. We connect that kingdom agenda to the culture around us, both by speaking it to the world and by showing it in our churches. As we do so, we remember our mission to oppose demons, not to demonise opponents. As we advocate for human dignity, for religious liberty, for family stability, let’s do so as those with a prophetic word that turns everything upside down.
Today more than ever those who feel the connection with the Nazarene master teacher Jeshua should connect with each other as brothers and sisters in Christ and show their love for each other. Not staying in their small local cocoon, but also connecting to other brethren and sisters from all over. They should be welcoming any visiting brother or sister and when they receive mail from some brother or sister form somewhere in the world they should take time to answer that mail and to show their love to that correspondent by not ignoring him or her but letting those writers be feeling recognised as brothers and sisters of the body of Christ.
Though that Body of Christ may be composed of different nationalities, different cultured races, they should all show that they have union in that body of Christ by the unity of spirit in Christ. Unity should be shown by their willingness to communicate with each other and to be respectful for the different characters and different opinions. Unity does not have to mean that all have to say exactly the same or have to use the same bible translation, read the same books, may not have different ways of civilian life, may not have different tastes. Those differences make the world coloured and not boring. We should be happy with such diversity and the differences between ecclesiae may provide different pastures for bible believers to find themselves at ease in one or the other ecclesia.
Jubilant Joel Osteen Juice MegachurchIn Jesus time the apostles were also of different character and different opinion or used not always the same words. We should neither. In our way of reaching people we should recognise that they should not know Christadelphianisms and may have a religious vocabulary closer to the denomination to which they belonged originally or still belong. By preaching to them we do have to be able to use different words and different Bible translations so that they can come to understand what the Word of God is saying. We are just some intermediaries who want to show them that Jesus is our mediator and the Way to God.
The Lord’s Hall a Christian megachurch in the Philippines that is managed by the Day by Day Christian Ministries DBD since 2005 situated and leased from the CCP, due to numerous concerns at the time though the church is known as DBD’s flagship church, and is known for being a venue for massive Christian gatherings by Rev Gamaliel Alba and Sun Cruises, CCP Complex, Roxas Blvd.Those we want to attract to the Word of God we have to convince that it are not the megachurches or the churches with the most members that are really following the Word of God and would not have false teachings or wrong doctrines. Lots of people may also put their hope in such megachurches because they expect megachurch pastors to have all the answers and that those churches could grow so much because those pastors are personally successful as well as leaders of successful churches because they can offer the best for man.
At conferences such preachers also may attract a lot of attention because many think they have the solution for today’s problem, a diminishing church.
and so we come to see what crumbs of wisdom they might cast our way that will help us and our small churches be”successful” like they are.
writes pastor Jim in his article “Is “Bigger Better” in Churches?“. Like many of us in the Christadelphian community is has seen Abraham and should have gathered enough experience to have some sound opinion. He believes that such leaders of mega churches may deliver good sermons. For sure they probably are good administrators, very good players with words or good speakers having a good deal of charisma. He correctly points out
Their churches offer tons of programs for children and adults—from support groups for people with various problems to children’s ministry and everything in between. But are a variety of programs offered to attract large numbers of people to their church a measure of success as Jesus defined success? I’m not so sure of this… {Is “Bigger Better” in Churches?}
He is leading a Home Fellowship Group in a Bible Study of the Gospel of Mark. At their last session they discussed this question of “supersize” as Jesus seemed to see it.
He accepted the large crowds he attracted—some so large along the Sea of Galilee that he acquired a boat to get in so he would not be crushed by the crowds seeking to touch him and be healed. But Jesus tends to see those crowds as no reason for gratification. He feels that many of them are there for the wrong reason, to be healed of their infirmities and to see the miraculous. Jesus heals them and has compassion for them, but proclaiming the good news of the Kingdom of God is his main mission. That proclamation is his main mission because it has the power to transform people’s lives, and sometimes people who are only seeking physical healing and entertainment can get in the way of that proclamation. {Is “Bigger Better” in Churches?}
In those days Jesus also had to get listening ears. In that age people were much more willing to listen and to go into discussion about religious and spiritual matters. There was much more interest in God than today. But Jesus knew that from the many that came around to hear him speak, there were also many who came out of curiosity or wanted to see miracles or hear controversial talks.
Jesus saw the crowds to whom he sought to proclaim the good news of the Kingdom of God in the same way as a sower.
Only a small portion of the crowd would actually be transformed by the good news of the Kingdom of God. The rest would let other things choke it out of their lives and die unchanged. Thus I feel Jesus was not impressed with numbers but with changes in the lives of people who heard him. {Is “Bigger Better” in Churches?} {Please do read also Mark 4: 1-9}
Too often people think it our the numbers that make it to be good. Perhaps the numbers show the popularity, but for sure they do not always show the integrity or the good value of a product or group.
The pastor thinks the answer to his and our question “Is Bigger Better?” as it pertains to churches is this:
it is not size alone that leads to success of any church, large or small, but it is its ability to follow Jesus and in doing so transform the lives of those who are a part of that church and those who that church reaches out to. The measure of a church’s success is the number of lives that have been changed and transformed due to its proclamation both in word and in deed of the Kingdom of God. The successful church is the “good soil” in the Parable of the Sower” that brings forth transformation of people’s lives and nurtures their growth in relationship to God and God’s Kingdom.
A successful church, regardless of the names on the roster, changes people into devoted followers of Jesus and his teachings as they live their lives each day. Small churches can be just as successful as large churches in changing people’s lives as they live the great commandment to love God and neighbor as yourself.” Sometimes because small churches are more personal, they are able to live this better than those with thousands on their membership roster. {Is “Bigger Better” in Churches?}
The Christadelphians are a very tiny community. We only can hope that all people in this small community bear their hearts on the right place. God knows the heart and it is for him that we should work and go out in the world getting people to know the Master works of God.
We may not forget that by being such a small community we have the advantage that we can get together in small cosy groups and feel much more the unity of the small group than in such mega churches were everybody can sit next to each other without knowing the other. When sitting in a stadium, arena or in such a huge church were there are hundreds or thousands of people it can well be that the individual may be drowning in the numbers.
We should be ready to throw out the lifeline and to pull those people who are looking for the Truth, to get to our meetings and let them feel that we are real followers of Jesus, keeping to his teachings and not adoring human doctrines, but keeping to Biblical doctrines, studying the infallible Word of God daily.
+
Preceding:
Personal thoughts, communication, establishing ecclesia and guest writings
The Big Conversation follow up
Evangelisation, local preaching opposite overseas evangelism
The Right One to follow and to worship
Wanting to live in Christ’s city
A participation in the body of Christ
Ecclesia to exist, grow and communities to have people communicating with each other
++
Additional reading:
- Who are the Christadelphians
- What are Brothers in Christ
- Christadelphian people
- Small churches of the few Christadelphians
- Strange Fire conference 2013
- Bloggers for Christ and Bloggers for Peace
- Being Missional
- Atonement And Fellowship 4/8
- Atonement And Fellowship 5/8
- Good or bad preacher
- Quibbling siblings united or allied children of an organisation or a church
- Reflection for today: hating your brother
+++
Further reading:
- Lessons Learned at Strange Fire
- A Vision of Holiness
- Praying in Circles
- In this Moment
- Wanting to be Heard
- truth nugget #66
- Unite against their corruption, not our church’s
- Prosperity Gospel – The Bane of The True Gospel
- The Conference Every Mega-Church Pastor Should Attend
- Millennials And Christianity!
- In Delight of the Deca-Church
- [TL;DR] In Defense of the Mega-Church
- Agree to Disagree
- Kingdom Building: The Large Church and the Small Church Working Together
- Mega Churches: What’s the big deal?
- 3 Reasons Why You Should Go To A Small Church
- Missed Opportunities
- Pastoral Environment and the Fight for Holiness
- Welcome to the Club
- 365 Day Photo Challenge 167/365 “Church on the Hill”
- Extravaganza City
- Instructed In God’s Ways
- Why Black Mega Church Pastors Catch Such Heat
- Book Review: The Blessed Church
- My Two Cents… conderning a famous mega-church preacher
- I don’t believe in mega churches
- American Christian Idol
+++
Related articles
- LISTEN: The Body of Believers, Part 2 (Onward Christian Soldiers #98 with Daniel Whyte III) (blackchristiannews.com)
- The Truth About The Roman Catholic Church (nowtheendbegins.com)
- 1 Corinthians 11:27-34 Taking a Spiritual Self-Exam (jimerwin.com)
- Lessons From The Road (beyondthemiryclay.wordpress.com)
- The Daily Gospel and Readings 21 September 2015 (prayersandmeditations.com)
- Such A Time As This (mylordmyfriend.com)
- A Perfect Inheritance (birdchirp.wordpress.com)
- How Long Will You Waver? (juicyecumenism.com)
- Pastors & Patriots Dinner – for such a time as this! (christian-reporter-news.ticketleap.com)
- No More Youth Pastors? (Part I) (joshuaziefle.net)
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Engaging the culture without losing the gospel
As the culture changes all around us, it is no longer possible to pretend that Christians are a Moral Majority. For the Christadelphian community it was already very clear that Christendom had gone astray and that not many people knew the essence of the Divine Creator and His Plan.
Guestspeaker’s 1° article 2014 March 26 on “From Guestwriters”In certain parts of the world we may find mega churches, like in the United states of America. But what we also see in those countries is that there is a very strange discrepancy between the way of life and the way presented in the Holy Scriptures. In the talks about pro-life issues and arguments at our website From Guestwriters this is made clear in the different reactions where some readers point out at the huge amount of abortions been done every day. Such points of discussion as the abortion debate show how values and attitudes have changed over the years.
Those people who call themselves Christian either are not so much interested in having an active faith or going to worship services or when they want to go to worship services they expect them to be relaxing and entertaining. For many the entertaining factor receives priority. This makes it understandable why certain churches in the States get full house whilst the churches really interested in and giving eye and ear for the Word of God do not have so many people coming to their service.
In general people are very much influenced by the media and television and show business are not the instruments who, today, bring the people to God. the television church services are full of show elements and short quoting form a few words taken from Scripture but also taken out of context. No time is given to sincerely listen and to sincerely study a full paragraph of a Bible chapter.
Our very fast changing world can do with a sort of new reformation. What’s needed now, in shifting times, is neither a doubling-down on the status quo nor a pullback into isolation. Instead, we need a church that speaks to social and political issues with a bigger vision in mind: that of the gospel of Jesus Christ. As Christianity seems increasingly strange, and even subversive, to our culture, we have the opportunity to reclaim the freakishness of the gospel, which is what gives it its power in the first place.
We should seek the kingdom of God, before everything else and we should love to bring others to the entrance gate of that Kingdom. We connect that kingdom agenda to the culture around us, both by speaking it to the world and by showing it in our churches. As we do so, we remember our mission to oppose demons, not to demonise opponents. As we advocate for human dignity, for religious liberty, for family stability, let’s do so as those with a prophetic word that turns everything upside down.
Today more than ever those who feel the connection with the Nazarene master teacher Jeshua should connect with each other as brothers and sisters in Christ and show their love for each other. Not staying in their small local cocoon, but also connecting to other brethren and sisters from all over. They should be welcoming any visiting brother or sister and when they receive mail from some brother or sister form somewhere in the world they should take time to answer that mail and to show their love to that correspondent by not ignoring him or her but letting those writers be feeling recognised as brothers and sisters of the body of Christ.
Though that Body of Christ may be composed of different nationalities, different cultured races, they should all show that they have union in that body of Christ by the unity of spirit in Christ. Unity should be shown by their willingness to communicate with each other and to be respectful for the different characters and different opinions. Unity does not have to mean that all have to say exactly the same or have to use the same bible translation, read the same books, may not have different ways of civilian life, may not have different tastes. Those differences make the world coloured and not boring. We should be happy with such diversity and the differences between ecclesiae may provide different pastures for bible believers to find themselves at ease in one or the other ecclesia.
Jubilant Joel Osteen Juice MegachurchIn Jesus time the apostles were also of different character and different opinion or used not always the same words. We should neither. In our way of reaching people we should recognise that they should not know Christadelphianisms and may have a religious vocabulary closer to the denomination to which they belonged originally or still belong. By preaching to them we do have to be able to use different words and different Bible translations so that they can come to understand what the Word of God is saying. We are just some intermediaries who want to show them that Jesus is our mediator and the Way to God.
The Lord’s Hall a Christian megachurch in the Philippines that is managed by the Day by Day Christian Ministries DBD since 2005 situated and leased from the CCP, due to numerous concerns at the time though the church is known as DBD’s flagship church, and is known for being a venue for massive Christian gatherings by Rev Gamaliel Alba and Sun Cruises, CCP Complex, Roxas Blvd.Those we want to attract to the Word of God we have to convince that it are not the megachurches or the churches with the most members that are really following the Word of God and would not have false teachings or wrong doctrines. Lots of people may also put their hope in such megachurches because they expect megachurch pastors to have all the answers and that those churches could grow so much because those pastors are personally successful as well as leaders of successful churches because they can offer the best for man.
At conferences such preachers also may attract a lot of attention because many think they have the solution for today’s problem, a diminishing church.
and so we come to see what crumbs of wisdom they might cast our way that will help us and our small churches be”successful” like they are.
writes pastor Jim in his article “Is “Bigger Better” in Churches?“. Like many of us in the Christadelphian community is has seen Abraham and should have gathered enough experience to have some sound opinion. He believes that such leaders of mega churches may deliver good sermons. For sure they probably are good administrators, very good players with words or good speakers having a good deal of charisma. He correctly points out
Their churches offer tons of programs for children and adults—from support groups for people with various problems to children’s ministry and everything in between. But are a variety of programs offered to attract large numbers of people to their church a measure of success as Jesus defined success? I’m not so sure of this… {Is “Bigger Better” in Churches?}
He is leading a Home Fellowship Group in a Bible Study of the Gospel of Mark. At their last session they discussed this question of “supersize” as Jesus seemed to see it.
He accepted the large crowds he attracted—some so large along the Sea of Galilee that he acquired a boat to get in so he would not be crushed by the crowds seeking to touch him and be healed. But Jesus tends to see those crowds as no reason for gratification. He feels that many of them are there for the wrong reason, to be healed of their infirmities and to see the miraculous. Jesus heals them and has compassion for them, but proclaiming the good news of the Kingdom of God is his main mission. That proclamation is his main mission because it has the power to transform people’s lives, and sometimes people who are only seeking physical healing and entertainment can get in the way of that proclamation. {Is “Bigger Better” in Churches?}
In those days Jesus also had to get listening ears. In that age people were much more willing to listen and to go into discussion about religious and spiritual matters. There was much more interest in God than today. But Jesus knew that from the many that came around to hear him speak, there were also many who came out of curiosity or wanted to see miracles or hear controversial talks.
Jesus saw the crowds to whom he sought to proclaim the good news of the Kingdom of God in the same way as a sower.
Only a small portion of the crowd would actually be transformed by the good news of the Kingdom of God. The rest would let other things choke it out of their lives and die unchanged. Thus I feel Jesus was not impressed with numbers but with changes in the lives of people who heard him. {Is “Bigger Better” in Churches?} {Please do read also Mark 4: 1-9}
Too often people think it our the numbers that make it to be good. Perhaps the numbers show the popularity, but for sure they do not always show the integrity or the good value of a product or group.
The pastor thinks the answer to his and our question “Is Bigger Better?” as it pertains to churches is this:
it is not size alone that leads to success of any church, large or small, but it is its ability to follow Jesus and in doing so transform the lives of those who are a part of that church and those who that church reaches out to. The measure of a church’s success is the number of lives that have been changed and transformed due to its proclamation both in word and in deed of the Kingdom of God. The successful church is the “good soil” in the Parable of the Sower” that brings forth transformation of people’s lives and nurtures their growth in relationship to God and God’s Kingdom.
A successful church, regardless of the names on the roster, changes people into devoted followers of Jesus and his teachings as they live their lives each day. Small churches can be just as successful as large churches in changing people’s lives as they live the great commandment to love God and neighbor as yourself.” Sometimes because small churches are more personal, they are able to live this better than those with thousands on their membership roster. {Is “Bigger Better” in Churches?}
The Christadelphians are a very tiny community. We only can hope that all people in this small community bear their hearts on the right place. God knows the heart and it is for him that we should work and go out in the world getting people to know the Master works of God.
We may not forget that by being such a small community we have the advantage that we can get together in small cosy groups and feel much more the unity of the small group than in such mega churches were everybody can sit next to each other without knowing the other. When sitting in a stadium, arena or in such a huge church were there are hundreds or thousands of people it can well be that the individual may be drowning in the numbers.
We should be ready to throw out the lifeline and to pull those people who are looking for the Truth, to get to our meetings and let them feel that we are real followers of Jesus, keeping to his teachings and not adoring human doctrines, but keeping to Biblical doctrines, studying the infallible Word of God daily.
+
Preceding:
Personal thoughts, communication, establishing ecclesia and guest writings
The Big Conversation follow up
Evangelisation, local preaching opposite overseas evangelism
The Right One to follow and to worship
Wanting to live in Christ’s city
A participation in the body of Christ
Ecclesia to exist, grow and communities to have people communicating with each other
++
Additional reading:
- Who are the Christadelphians
- What are Brothers in Christ
- Christadelphian people
- Small churches of the few Christadelphians
- Strange Fire conference 2013
- Bloggers for Christ and Bloggers for Peace
- Being Missional
- Atonement And Fellowship 4/8
- Atonement And Fellowship 5/8
- Good or bad preacher
- Quibbling siblings united or allied children of an organisation or a church
- Reflection for today: hating your brother
+++
Further reading:
- Lessons Learned at Strange Fire
- A Vision of Holiness
- Praying in Circles
- In this Moment
- Wanting to be Heard
- truth nugget #66
- Unite against their corruption, not our church’s
- Prosperity Gospel – The Bane of The True Gospel
- The Conference Every Mega-Church Pastor Should Attend
- Millennials And Christianity!
- In Delight of the Deca-Church
- [TL;DR] In Defense of the Mega-Church
- Agree to Disagree
- Kingdom Building: The Large Church and the Small Church Working Together
- Mega Churches: What’s the big deal?
- 3 Reasons Why You Should Go To A Small Church
- Missed Opportunities
- Pastoral Environment and the Fight for Holiness
- Welcome to the Club
- 365 Day Photo Challenge 167/365 “Church on the Hill”
- Extravaganza City
- Instructed In God’s Ways
- Why Black Mega Church Pastors Catch Such Heat
- Book Review: The Blessed Church
- My Two Cents… conderning a famous mega-church preacher
- I don’t believe in mega churches
- American Christian Idol
+++
Related articles
- LISTEN: The Body of Believers, Part 2 (Onward Christian Soldiers #98 with Daniel Whyte III) (blackchristiannews.com)
- The Truth About The Roman Catholic Church (nowtheendbegins.com)
- 1 Corinthians 11:27-34 Taking a Spiritual Self-Exam (jimerwin.com)
- Lessons From The Road (beyondthemiryclay.wordpress.com)
- The Daily Gospel and Readings 21 September 2015 (prayersandmeditations.com)
- Such A Time As This (mylordmyfriend.com)
- A Perfect Inheritance (birdchirp.wordpress.com)
- How Long Will You Waver? (juicyecumenism.com)
- Pastors & Patriots Dinner – for such a time as this! (christian-reporter-news.ticketleap.com)
- No More Youth Pastors? (Part I) (joshuaziefle.net)
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Engaging the culture without losing the gospel
As the culture changes all around us, it is no longer possible to pretend that Christians are a Moral Majority. For the Christadelphian community it was already very clear that Christendom had gone astray and that not many people knew the essence of the Divine Creator and His Plan.
Guestspeaker’s 1° article 2014 March 26 on “From Guestwriters”In certain parts of the world we may find mega churches, like in the United states of America. But what we also see in those countries is that there is a very strange discrepancy between the way of life and the way presented in the Holy Scriptures. In the talks about pro-life issues and arguments at our website From Guestwriters this is made clear in the different reactions where some readers point out at the huge amount of abortions been done every day. Such points of discussion as the abortion debate show how values and attitudes have changed over the years.
Those people who call themselves Christian either are not so much interested in having an active faith or going to worship services or when they want to go to worship services they expect them to be relaxing and entertaining. For many the entertaining factor receives priority. This makes it understandable why certain churches in the States get full house whilst the churches really interested in and giving eye and ear for the Word of God do not have so many people coming to their service.
In general people are very much influenced by the media and television and show business are not the instruments who, today, bring the people to God. the television church services are full of show elements and short quoting form a few words taken from Scripture but also taken out of context. No time is given to sincerely listen and to sincerely study a full paragraph of a Bible chapter.
Our very fast changing world can do with a sort of new reformation. What’s needed now, in shifting times, is neither a doubling-down on the status quo nor a pullback into isolation. Instead, we need a church that speaks to social and political issues with a bigger vision in mind: that of the gospel of Jesus Christ. As Christianity seems increasingly strange, and even subversive, to our culture, we have the opportunity to reclaim the freakishness of the gospel, which is what gives it its power in the first place.
We should seek the kingdom of God, before everything else and we should love to bring others to the entrance gate of that Kingdom. We connect that kingdom agenda to the culture around us, both by speaking it to the world and by showing it in our churches. As we do so, we remember our mission to oppose demons, not to demonise opponents. As we advocate for human dignity, for religious liberty, for family stability, let’s do so as those with a prophetic word that turns everything upside down.
Today more than ever those who feel the connection with the Nazarene master teacher Jeshua should connect with each other as brothers and sisters in Christ and show their love for each other. Not staying in their small local cocoon, but also connecting to other brethren and sisters from all over. They should be welcoming any visiting brother or sister and when they receive mail from some brother or sister form somewhere in the world they should take time to answer that mail and to show their love to that correspondent by not ignoring him or her but letting those writers be feeling recognised as brothers and sisters of the body of Christ.
Though that Body of Christ may be composed of different nationalities, different cultured races, they should all show that they have union in that body of Christ by the unity of spirit in Christ. Unity should be shown by their willingness to communicate with each other and to be respectful for the different characters and different opinions. Unity does not have to mean that all have to say exactly the same or have to use the same bible translation, read the same books, may not have different ways of civilian life, may not have different tastes. Those differences make the world coloured and not boring. We should be happy with such diversity and the differences between ecclesiae may provide different pastures for bible believers to find themselves at ease in one or the other ecclesia.
Jubilant Joel Osteen Juice MegachurchIn Jesus time the apostles were also of different character and different opinion or used not always the same words. We should neither. In our way of reaching people we should recognise that they should not know Christadelphianisms and may have a religious vocabulary closer to the denomination to which they belonged originally or still belong. By preaching to them we do have to be able to use different words and different Bible translations so that they can come to understand what the Word of God is saying. We are just some intermediaries who want to show them that Jesus is our mediator and the Way to God.
The Lord’s Hall a Christian megachurch in the Philippines that is managed by the Day by Day Christian Ministries DBD since 2005 situated and leased from the CCP, due to numerous concerns at the time though the church is known as DBD’s flagship church, and is known for being a venue for massive Christian gatherings by Rev Gamaliel Alba and Sun Cruises, CCP Complex, Roxas Blvd.Those we want to attract to the Word of God we have to convince that it are not the megachurches or the churches with the most members that are really following the Word of God and would not have false teachings or wrong doctrines. Lots of people may also put their hope in such megachurches because they expect megachurch pastors to have all the answers and that those churches could grow so much because those pastors are personally successful as well as leaders of successful churches because they can offer the best for man.
At conferences such preachers also may attract a lot of attention because many think they have the solution for today’s problem, a diminishing church.
and so we come to see what crumbs of wisdom they might cast our way that will help us and our small churches be”successful” like they are.
writes pastor Jim in his article “Is “Bigger Better” in Churches?“. Like many of us in the Christadelphian community is has seen Abraham and should have gathered enough experience to have some sound opinion. He believes that such leaders of mega churches may deliver good sermons. For sure they probably are good administrators, very good players with words or good speakers having a good deal of charisma. He correctly points out
Their churches offer tons of programs for children and adults—from support groups for people with various problems to children’s ministry and everything in between. But are a variety of programs offered to attract large numbers of people to their church a measure of success as Jesus defined success? I’m not so sure of this… {Is “Bigger Better” in Churches?}
He is leading a Home Fellowship Group in a Bible Study of the Gospel of Mark. At their last session they discussed this question of “supersize” as Jesus seemed to see it.
He accepted the large crowds he attracted—some so large along the Sea of Galilee that he acquired a boat to get in so he would not be crushed by the crowds seeking to touch him and be healed. But Jesus tends to see those crowds as no reason for gratification. He feels that many of them are there for the wrong reason, to be healed of their infirmities and to see the miraculous. Jesus heals them and has compassion for them, but proclaiming the good news of the Kingdom of God is his main mission. That proclamation is his main mission because it has the power to transform people’s lives, and sometimes people who are only seeking physical healing and entertainment can get in the way of that proclamation. {Is “Bigger Better” in Churches?}
In those days Jesus also had to get listening ears. In that age people were much more willing to listen and to go into discussion about religious and spiritual matters. There was much more interest in God than today. But Jesus knew that from the many that came around to hear him speak, there were also many who came out of curiosity or wanted to see miracles or hear controversial talks.
Jesus saw the crowds to whom he sought to proclaim the good news of the Kingdom of God in the same way as a sower.
Only a small portion of the crowd would actually be transformed by the good news of the Kingdom of God. The rest would let other things choke it out of their lives and die unchanged. Thus I feel Jesus was not impressed with numbers but with changes in the lives of people who heard him. {Is “Bigger Better” in Churches?} {Please do read also Mark 4: 1-9}
Too often people think it our the numbers that make it to be good. Perhaps the numbers show the popularity, but for sure they do not always show the integrity or the good value of a product or group.
The pastor thinks the answer to his and our question “Is Bigger Better?” as it pertains to churches is this:
it is not size alone that leads to success of any church, large or small, but it is its ability to follow Jesus and in doing so transform the lives of those who are a part of that church and those who that church reaches out to. The measure of a church’s success is the number of lives that have been changed and transformed due to its proclamation both in word and in deed of the Kingdom of God. The successful church is the “good soil” in the Parable of the Sower” that brings forth transformation of people’s lives and nurtures their growth in relationship to God and God’s Kingdom.
A successful church, regardless of the names on the roster, changes people into devoted followers of Jesus and his teachings as they live their lives each day. Small churches can be just as successful as large churches in changing people’s lives as they live the great commandment to love God and neighbor as yourself.” Sometimes because small churches are more personal, they are able to live this better than those with thousands on their membership roster. {Is “Bigger Better” in Churches?}
The Christadelphians are a very tiny community. We only can hope that all people in this small community bear their hearts on the right place. God knows the heart and it is for him that we should work and go out in the world getting people to know the Master works of God.
We may not forget that by being such a small community we have the advantage that we can get together in small cosy groups and feel much more the unity of the small group than in such mega churches were everybody can sit next to each other without knowing the other. When sitting in a stadium, arena or in such a huge church were there are hundreds or thousands of people it can well be that the individual may be drowning in the numbers.
We should be ready to throw out the lifeline and to pull those people who are looking for the Truth, to get to our meetings and let them feel that we are real followers of Jesus, keeping to his teachings and not adoring human doctrines, but keeping to Biblical doctrines, studying the infallible Word of God daily.
+
Preceding:
Personal thoughts, communication, establishing ecclesia and guest writings
The Big Conversation follow up
Evangelisation, local preaching opposite overseas evangelism
The Right One to follow and to worship
Wanting to live in Christ’s city
A participation in the body of Christ
Ecclesia to exist, grow and communities to have people communicating with each other
++
Additional reading:
- Who are the Christadelphians
- What are Brothers in Christ
- Christadelphian people
- Small churches of the few Christadelphians
- Strange Fire conference 2013
- Bloggers for Christ and Bloggers for Peace
- Being Missional
- Atonement And Fellowship 4/8
- Atonement And Fellowship 5/8
- Good or bad preacher
- Quibbling siblings united or allied children of an organisation or a church
- Reflection for today: hating your brother
+++
Further reading:
- Lessons Learned at Strange Fire
- A Vision of Holiness
- Praying in Circles
- In this Moment
- Wanting to be Heard
- truth nugget #66
- Unite against their corruption, not our church’s
- Prosperity Gospel – The Bane of The True Gospel
- The Conference Every Mega-Church Pastor Should Attend
- Millennials And Christianity!
- In Delight of the Deca-Church
- [TL;DR] In Defense of the Mega-Church
- Agree to Disagree
- Kingdom Building: The Large Church and the Small Church Working Together
- Mega Churches: What’s the big deal?
- 3 Reasons Why You Should Go To A Small Church
- Missed Opportunities
- Pastoral Environment and the Fight for Holiness
- Welcome to the Club
- 365 Day Photo Challenge 167/365 “Church on the Hill”
- Extravaganza City
- Instructed In God’s Ways
- Why Black Mega Church Pastors Catch Such Heat
- Book Review: The Blessed Church
- My Two Cents… conderning a famous mega-church preacher
- I don’t believe in mega churches
- American Christian Idol
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- The Truth About The Roman Catholic Church (nowtheendbegins.com)
- 1 Corinthians 11:27-34 Taking a Spiritual Self-Exam (jimerwin.com)
- Lessons From The Road (beyondthemiryclay.wordpress.com)
- The Daily Gospel and Readings 21 September 2015 (prayersandmeditations.com)
- Such A Time As This (mylordmyfriend.com)
- A Perfect Inheritance (birdchirp.wordpress.com)
- How Long Will You Waver? (juicyecumenism.com)
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Engaging the culture without losing the gospel
As the culture changes all around us, it is no longer possible to pretend that Christians are a Moral Majority. For the Christadelphian community it was already very clear that Christendom had gone astray and that not many people knew the essence of the Divine Creator and His Plan.
Guestspeaker’s 1° article 2014 March 26 on “From Guestwriters”In certain parts of the world we may find mega churches, like in the United states of America. But what we also see in those countries is that there is a very strange discrepancy between the way of life and the way presented in the Holy Scriptures. In the talks about pro-life issues and arguments at our website From Guestwriters this is made clear in the different reactions where some readers point out at the huge amount of abortions been done every day. Such points of discussion as the abortion debate show how values and attitudes have changed over the years.
Those people who call themselves Christian either are not so much interested in having an active faith or going to worship services or when they want to go to worship services they expect them to be relaxing and entertaining. For many the entertaining factor receives priority. This makes it understandable why certain churches in the States get full house whilst the churches really interested in and giving eye and ear for the Word of God do not have so many people coming to their service.
In general people are very much influenced by the media and television and show business are not the instruments who, today, bring the people to God. the television church services are full of show elements and short quoting form a few words taken from Scripture but also taken out of context. No time is given to sincerely listen and to sincerely study a full paragraph of a Bible chapter.
Our very fast changing world can do with a sort of new reformation. What’s needed now, in shifting times, is neither a doubling-down on the status quo nor a pullback into isolation. Instead, we need a church that speaks to social and political issues with a bigger vision in mind: that of the gospel of Jesus Christ. As Christianity seems increasingly strange, and even subversive, to our culture, we have the opportunity to reclaim the freakishness of the gospel, which is what gives it its power in the first place.
We should seek the kingdom of God, before everything else and we should love to bring others to the entrance gate of that Kingdom. We connect that kingdom agenda to the culture around us, both by speaking it to the world and by showing it in our churches. As we do so, we remember our mission to oppose demons, not to demonise opponents. As we advocate for human dignity, for religious liberty, for family stability, let’s do so as those with a prophetic word that turns everything upside down.
Today more than ever those who feel the connection with the Nazarene master teacher Jeshua should connect with each other as brothers and sisters in Christ and show their love for each other. Not staying in their small local cocoon, but also connecting to other brethren and sisters from all over. They should be welcoming any visiting brother or sister and when they receive mail from some brother or sister form somewhere in the world they should take time to answer that mail and to show their love to that correspondent by not ignoring him or her but letting those writers be feeling recognised as brothers and sisters of the body of Christ.
Though that Body of Christ may be composed of different nationalities, different cultured races, they should all show that they have union in that body of Christ by the unity of spirit in Christ. Unity should be shown by their willingness to communicate with each other and to be respectful for the different characters and different opinions. Unity does not have to mean that all have to say exactly the same or have to use the same bible translation, read the same books, may not have different ways of civilian life, may not have different tastes. Those differences make the world coloured and not boring. We should be happy with such diversity and the differences between ecclesiae may provide different pastures for bible believers to find themselves at ease in one or the other ecclesia.
Jubilant Joel Osteen Juice MegachurchIn Jesus time the apostles were also of different character and different opinion or used not always the same words. We should neither. In our way of reaching people we should recognise that they should not know Christadelphianisms and may have a religious vocabulary closer to the denomination to which they belonged originally or still belong. By preaching to them we do have to be able to use different words and different Bible translations so that they can come to understand what the Word of God is saying. We are just some intermediaries who want to show them that Jesus is our mediator and the Way to God.
The Lord’s Hall a Christian megachurch in the Philippines that is managed by the Day by Day Christian Ministries DBD since 2005 situated and leased from the CCP, due to numerous concerns at the time though the church is known as DBD’s flagship church, and is known for being a venue for massive Christian gatherings by Rev Gamaliel Alba and Sun Cruises, CCP Complex, Roxas Blvd.Those we want to attract to the Word of God we have to convince that it are not the megachurches or the churches with the most members that are really following the Word of God and would not have false teachings or wrong doctrines. Lots of people may also put their hope in such megachurches because they expect megachurch pastors to have all the answers and that those churches could grow so much because those pastors are personally successful as well as leaders of successful churches because they can offer the best for man.
At conferences such preachers also may attract a lot of attention because many think they have the solution for today’s problem, a diminishing church.
and so we come to see what crumbs of wisdom they might cast our way that will help us and our small churches be”successful” like they are.
writes pastor Jim in his article “Is “Bigger Better” in Churches?“. Like many of us in the Christadelphian community is has seen Abraham and should have gathered enough experience to have some sound opinion. He believes that such leaders of mega churches may deliver good sermons. For sure they probably are good administrators, very good players with words or good speakers having a good deal of charisma. He correctly points out
Their churches offer tons of programs for children and adults—from support groups for people with various problems to children’s ministry and everything in between. But are a variety of programs offered to attract large numbers of people to their church a measure of success as Jesus defined success? I’m not so sure of this… {Is “Bigger Better” in Churches?}
He is leading a Home Fellowship Group in a Bible Study of the Gospel of Mark. At their last session they discussed this question of “supersize” as Jesus seemed to see it.
He accepted the large crowds he attracted—some so large along the Sea of Galilee that he acquired a boat to get in so he would not be crushed by the crowds seeking to touch him and be healed. But Jesus tends to see those crowds as no reason for gratification. He feels that many of them are there for the wrong reason, to be healed of their infirmities and to see the miraculous. Jesus heals them and has compassion for them, but proclaiming the good news of the Kingdom of God is his main mission. That proclamation is his main mission because it has the power to transform people’s lives, and sometimes people who are only seeking physical healing and entertainment can get in the way of that proclamation. {Is “Bigger Better” in Churches?}
In those days Jesus also had to get listening ears. In that age people were much more willing to listen and to go into discussion about religious and spiritual matters. There was much more interest in God than today. But Jesus knew that from the many that came around to hear him speak, there were also many who came out of curiosity or wanted to see miracles or hear controversial talks.
Jesus saw the crowds to whom he sought to proclaim the good news of the Kingdom of God in the same way as a sower.
Only a small portion of the crowd would actually be transformed by the good news of the Kingdom of God. The rest would let other things choke it out of their lives and die unchanged. Thus I feel Jesus was not impressed with numbers but with changes in the lives of people who heard him. {Is “Bigger Better” in Churches?} {Please do read also Mark 4: 1-9}
Too often people think it our the numbers that make it to be good. Perhaps the numbers show the popularity, but for sure they do not always show the integrity or the good value of a product or group.
The pastor thinks the answer to his and our question “Is Bigger Better?” as it pertains to churches is this:
it is not size alone that leads to success of any church, large or small, but it is its ability to follow Jesus and in doing so transform the lives of those who are a part of that church and those who that church reaches out to. The measure of a church’s success is the number of lives that have been changed and transformed due to its proclamation both in word and in deed of the Kingdom of God. The successful church is the “good soil” in the Parable of the Sower” that brings forth transformation of people’s lives and nurtures their growth in relationship to God and God’s Kingdom.
A successful church, regardless of the names on the roster, changes people into devoted followers of Jesus and his teachings as they live their lives each day. Small churches can be just as successful as large churches in changing people’s lives as they live the great commandment to love God and neighbor as yourself.” Sometimes because small churches are more personal, they are able to live this better than those with thousands on their membership roster. {Is “Bigger Better” in Churches?}
The Christadelphians are a very tiny community. We only can hope that all people in this small community bear their hearts on the right place. God knows the heart and it is for him that we should work and go out in the world getting people to know the Master works of God.
We may not forget that by being such a small community we have the advantage that we can get together in small cosy groups and feel much more the unity of the small group than in such mega churches were everybody can sit next to each other without knowing the other. When sitting in a stadium, arena or in such a huge church were there are hundreds or thousands of people it can well be that the individual may be drowning in the numbers.
We should be ready to throw out the lifeline and to pull those people who are looking for the Truth, to get to our meetings and let them feel that we are real followers of Jesus, keeping to his teachings and not adoring human doctrines, but keeping to Biblical doctrines, studying the infallible Word of God daily.
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Preceding:
Personal thoughts, communication, establishing ecclesia and guest writings
The Big Conversation follow up
Evangelisation, local preaching opposite overseas evangelism
The Right One to follow and to worship
Wanting to live in Christ’s city
A participation in the body of Christ
Ecclesia to exist, grow and communities to have people communicating with each other
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Additional reading:
- Who are the Christadelphians
- What are Brothers in Christ
- Christadelphian people
- Small churches of the few Christadelphians
- Strange Fire conference 2013
- Bloggers for Christ and Bloggers for Peace
- Being Missional
- Atonement And Fellowship 4/8
- Atonement And Fellowship 5/8
- Good or bad preacher
- Quibbling siblings united or allied children of an organisation or a church
- Reflection for today: hating your brother
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Further reading:
- Lessons Learned at Strange Fire
- A Vision of Holiness
- Praying in Circles
- In this Moment
- Wanting to be Heard
- truth nugget #66
- Unite against their corruption, not our church’s
- Prosperity Gospel – The Bane of The True Gospel
- The Conference Every Mega-Church Pastor Should Attend
- Millennials And Christianity!
- In Delight of the Deca-Church
- [TL;DR] In Defense of the Mega-Church
- Agree to Disagree
- Kingdom Building: The Large Church and the Small Church Working Together
- Mega Churches: What’s the big deal?
- 3 Reasons Why You Should Go To A Small Church
- Missed Opportunities
- Pastoral Environment and the Fight for Holiness
- Welcome to the Club
- 365 Day Photo Challenge 167/365 “Church on the Hill”
- Extravaganza City
- Instructed In God’s Ways
- Why Black Mega Church Pastors Catch Such Heat
- Book Review: The Blessed Church
- My Two Cents… conderning a famous mega-church preacher
- I don’t believe in mega churches
- American Christian Idol
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Related articles
- LISTEN: The Body of Believers, Part 2 (Onward Christian Soldiers #98 with Daniel Whyte III) (blackchristiannews.com)
- The Truth About The Roman Catholic Church (nowtheendbegins.com)
- 1 Corinthians 11:27-34 Taking a Spiritual Self-Exam (jimerwin.com)
- Lessons From The Road (beyondthemiryclay.wordpress.com)
- The Daily Gospel and Readings 21 September 2015 (prayersandmeditations.com)
- Such A Time As This (mylordmyfriend.com)
- A Perfect Inheritance (birdchirp.wordpress.com)
- How Long Will You Waver? (juicyecumenism.com)
- Pastors & Patriots Dinner – for such a time as this! (christian-reporter-news.ticketleap.com)
- No More Youth Pastors? (Part I) (joshuaziefle.net)
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CW: nudity
💞 The Order of True Friendship 🕯 The Ritual of Trust
Watch the Main Film HD 4:27: https://youtu.be/MIXhhU-cJDQ
#GayHistory #Illuminati #Brotherhood #LGBT #TrueFriendship #GayArt #18thCentury #Enlightenment #aianimation #musicvideo
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CW: nudity
💞 The Order of True Friendship 🕯 The Ritual of Trust
Watch the Main Film HD 4:27: https://youtu.be/MIXhhU-cJDQ
#GayHistory #Illuminati #Brotherhood #LGBT #TrueFriendship #GayArt #18thCentury #Enlightenment #aianimation #musicvideo
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