Greetings

[reFORMer]

   It's like we're only sort of here.  The best fellowship I get from God; but, I'm not very advanced in that either.  Many experiences, spiritual and otherwise; knowledge, even of things celestial; but, HIM!!! how little we know.  We wait.  We seek and beg.  We search His word and obey.   We listen to others.  Sometimes I feel an exile, an orphan...certainly "a stranger in a strange land."  Where have all the REAL Christians gone?
   Almost 18 years growing up always in church as a Pentecostal Pastor's kid.  Then out on the streets with no means of supporting myself,  nowhere to go and nobody to care in a brief stint as a radical pagan in Haight-Ashbury and Berkeley in the late 60's.  Jesus came in to stay one day when I was alone.  Reading the Bible quickly made me realize I was into something quite different than whatever I'd heard.  By going to many different churches I saw Jesus in people that were obviously wrong about various doctrinal matters.  By holding to the unity of the body of Christ, refusing to sectarianize by getting a denominational brand, I got rejected a lot.  (Just yesterday again, in fact!)  By keeping on in independent Bible study I've repeatedly seen the rotten Inquisitors of modern evangelicalism think they serve God while using all their power to destroy this disciple.  No adherence to the letter of the law there!
   Almost 40 years in this God thing.  (Still almost nowhere to go and nobody to care.  Just a malcontent or two in the cave of Addulam here.  A MIGHTY RIVER BEGINS WITH A LITTLE TRICKLE.)  So long to get free, a bit at a time, from carnal destructions and religious deceptions!  Whoopee!!!  I'm experiencing new manifestations of God in revelation knowledge and power.  I'm expecting great things.
   I went to church but the Church wasn't on the program!  Jesus, the only mediator between God and man, suffered and died to bring us into direct intimacy with God.  Now men are inserted between us and God, expecting us to pay them for it!  I don't care how knowledgeable or gifted the man on stage is, He's not the body of Christ, and JESUS WANTS HIS BODY BACK!!!  Meet without human Headship.
     ---James Rohde, Bartow, Georgia, USA

[SeekerSA]

Hi Reformer

:welcome: on board.

Well here at TM many consider our fellowship here church. Many here have had similar revelation and experiences as you have.

The main thing is, to let it go. Forgive them that offended/misused you and pray for them.

There are many scholars here but we are all still humans and from time to time we also can have our differences.  The main thing you will learn here is tolerance (I hope).

We all have different shades of sunglasses on hence we may see things slightly differently.  This is allowed here as it is by the Holy Spirit alone that reveals in His time what we are to see at any particular time.

But the word says, "Seek and ye shall find, knock and the door shall be opened"  In all things, we are required to test that which we read and learn by the word of god and by the Holy Spirit.

Be blessed here and like for all of us, may the Lord truly open our eyes that we may come to know Him fully.

Blessings in Christ

[Redlettervoice]

The HOPE of Israel; Christ in YOU, the HOPE of GLORY!

Welcome.

[hopeful]

Welcome, reFORMer!   :icon_flower:

May the depths of His riches be made real to you as you expect great things!

:HeartThrob:

Hopeful