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GREETINGS..please make note..
WE’RE GOING BACK…. INTO THE FUTURE…
We originally intended that this blog remain about FIRST CHURCH ORIGINAL CHIEF APOSTLES, 5 fold OFFICES and similar. But then we began to encounter TV MEDIA “POPULAR WORSHIP CULTURE ” senior ministry…in such giant deep southwest droves…that it was as horrific SHOCk to the pioneering apostolic leader writer’s (anti) BIG RELIGIOUS SYSTEM.**
**Meaning: Wasn’t CHRIST FOLLOWING primarily designed to be about ongoing EPH 1:16 “ACCEPTING” RELATIONSHIPS…not “Building MY OWN Sr Ministry?”
HENCE we began examining FIRST CHURCH APOSTOLIC DOCTRINE as well as the NEW MIXTURE of PC “popular grass roots worship culture” vastly held pastoral, senior ministry (mixed in with TRUE GOOD) Doctrine. Among some of these LEGALISTIC/controlling, accuser enabling (but again intended as SPIRITUAL AUTHORITY/COVERING) second tier /’pet” held leader choice doctrines…we examined OLD TESTAMENT LEVITICAL LAW intermingled with NEW TESTAMENT JESUS CHRIST “FREEDOM,” Western European/Ancient Roman PATRICIANISM, Doctrine of the NICOLAITANS and human flesh, other accuser of both brethren and sistren unholy MIXTURE..
BUT THEN I had a MISSION MIX on what IDENTITY was for THIS LEADER BLOG as compared to IFFM ORGANIC LEADER and DFW LEADER FELLOWSHIP..
So shortly we plan to take JULY to pray, examine and rectify each of those to have a SEPARATE stronger leader identity. (Pray if you please!)
BUT as this is similar to the THREAD that ties in to IDENTIFYING wholly Bible “ORGANIC” First Apostolic Church, I request the liberty for printing THIS article PART ONE and then upcoming PART TWO discussion CORPORATE 5 FOLD OFFICE UNITY as described by APOSTLE PAUL in BOOK OF EPHESIANS.
Blessings!
Dr. T
Submitting Food for Thought
We post this article from June 27,2014 www.dfwleaderfellowship.org and the second half (forthcoming) due it it’s importance.
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BOOK OF EPHESIANS OVERVIEW EXAMINATION PART ONE
How to Assume Positive Leader Realistic Role Modeling.
“Then the man said, “The woman whom You gave to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I ate.” Genesis 3:12
JOB 41 “LEVI”athan (sneaky snake of superior self righteous, self serving PRIDE); “BOA”nerge immature self seeking ministry;
BLESSINGS!
I had just finished working on the NEWLY DESIGNED “APOSTOLIC MALL” and had finished the SIDE POSTINGS (ongoing PURPOSE, many recurring APOSTOLIC MINISTRY (needing to be addressed) THEMES
SEE: www.apostolicblogmall.org
PART ONE: SETTING THE STAGE WITH BIBLE FOUNDATIONS
SUDDENLY this popped into my head:
1. IF Apostle Paul taught the 5 fold office, diverse, very multicultural, NEWLY SAVED, Jew-Gentile EPHESIANS CHURCH the ONE CORPORATE TRULY UNIFIED MUTUALLY RESPECTING, MUTUALLY SUBMITTED ENTIRE CROSS BODY UNITY…
2.READ the entire BOOK OF EPHESIANS while noting specifically the following:
EPHESIANS 1 :17 (revelation comes via truly KNOWING HIM…rather than just ABOUT the works performing, risen CHRIST)
EPHESIANS 2: 14 (Jesus Christ, the Messiah, has already broken down EVERY waLL OF PARTITION THAT SEPARATES..IF WE will take Him up on submitting to do that)
EPHESIANS 2:19-20 (where the IFFM gets its NAME: The International Fellowship of Foundational Ministries “revelation given first to the (office of) the prophets, apostles, with JESUS CHRIST being the CORNRSTONE)
EPHESIANS 4 clearly describes ONGOING, CROSS TRUE CORPORATE LEADER BODY 1) in cross male, female, leader, lay, family, RELATIONSHIP 2) which (imply) will be fully PRESERVED as EACH UNIQUE MEMBER “walks in meekness, lowliness in enduring(unconditional) required, accepting, uncondItional, real LOVE.
NOTE: EPHESIANS 4:11 Apostle Paul names each ministry OFFICE using SMALL LETTERS rather than CAPITALS. (AND Paul does this in all his other church letters, even when using “bishop” and when applying the use of the term “apostle” to HIMSELF. So why should not each one us do LIKEWISE…as this fully compares to Paul’s other ministry (nonlegalistic) commands to avoid DIVISION, no Big I’s, Little You’s implying SERVANT LEADER LAMPSTANDS rather that “Famous Celebrity” which would produce fan clubs, allow “God’s pastor /minister, other (HU)MAN PLEASING” ” I am for Apollos/I am for Paul” division and rather than mass produce many God reliant, God first pleasing true DISCIPLES.
THE DOCTRINES OF THE NICOLAITANS
The doctrine of the Nicolaitans (which God hated according to Revelation 2-3) would eventually infiltrate the First, newly saved CHURCh via GNOSTICISM.
Nike= to control
Laos= the (God’s) people
The Nicolaitan false wisdom, with it’s fleshly roots in human needs to have human POWER, to remain in CONTROL and thereby attain HUMAN SECURITY(even demand respect) infiltrated the ORGANIC FIRST APOSTOLIC CHURCH to (historical hindsight).
WHERE AS ORIGINALLY, the OF 5 fold SHEPHERDS had the “scent of the sheep”( with a CHIEF APOSTOLIC “NON TABLE WAITER” delegation of daily duties), yet later the MIXTURE DOCTRINES OF THE NICOLAITANS served to DIVIDE, later entitle, accuse and create SHEPHERD DEPENDENT complacent, many frustrated, LOWER APATHETIC LAY.
AND WHAT Holy Spirit had ORIGINALLY designed to be ongoing, apostolic, functioning, interactive, EPHESIANS 5:21 “mutually submitted in the fear of the Lord” abiding, long suffering ,enduring, OVERCOMING RELATIONSHIPS, now felt prey to natural human ongoing, flesh based MIXTURE form of spiritual government.
ASIDE: Later, the doctrines of the Nicolaitans also removed the HOLY BIBLE out of the hands of the common people, so that only the OFFICE SR MINISTER, PRIEST had it. (This time period is well known as the DARK AGES)
DUE TO THE FACT that when the First Young Early CHRIST FOLLOWING CHURCH began, there was NO NEW TESTAMENT, NO prior 5 fold office generation to learn from, be mentored by, ALL OFFICES, ministry leadership was (ongoing) CHIEF APOSTOLICALLY REVEALED (akin to PAUL in “his abundance of revelations) simply via TIMES OF DEEP PRAYER< FASTING, JESUS MENTORING FIRST HAND TEACHING and GIVEN GRACE through trial and error,but DURING the ongoing APOSTOlIC FIRST LOVE RELATIONSHIP.
(In the writer’s opinion, a WHOLE LOT was DISCERNED and PERCEIVED,personally ongoing REVEALED with much ongoing FASTING, PRAYER and “IRON SHARPENS IRON” (also ” word from the Lord being confirmed in the mouth of 2 or more witnessed, very possibly).
READER, ALWAYS REMEMBER that this writer is /has presented SELAH FOOD FOR APOSTOLIC REALISTIC THOUGHT but not hard dogma.
EPHESIANS 5:21 God’s WHOLE, CROSS BODY “Mutual submission in the fear of the Lord” Apostolic 5 fold ministry offices, leader peers, leader to lay, lay to lay, lay to leader, husband -wife (with Godly marriages including Ephesians 2:22 and following…meaning that the HEAD OF THE MARRIED, GODLY man/woman home serves as the family TIEBREAKER)
A lot more later on this.
EPHESIANS 4 Apostle Paul teaches the FIVE FOLD SERVANT, OFFICES/ LEADERSHIP (across the WHOLE TRUE BODY OF CHRIST)
** to find “commonly agreed upon doctrines” such as ONE LORD, ONE FAITH, ONE BAPTISM,etc (Read all of Chapter 4)
THIS MEANS that anything any pastor, minister, group, church, apostolic flow, CHOOSES TO VIEW as it’s OWN GOD GIVEN (even mature) BIBLE REVELATION must submit to the EPHESIANS 4 “Find commonly/mutually agreed upon doctrine” BUT THEN SELAH SUBMIT respectfully all OTHER (SECONDARY, PET) DOCTRINES to all others for the sake of the whole, common GOOD.**
** SO THIS is what IFFM /TAVEAU LEADERSHIP really does.
IMPORTANT: Book of Ephesians, significantly CHAPTER 4, then relegates NON COMMONLY HELD, NON MUTUALLY AGREED UPON APOSTOLIC, EVEN GOOD/GREAT DOCTRINE as SECONDARY…meaning the Respected Individual (senior minister, lay, junior rising future senior minister) has a GOD GIVEN CHOICE TO PRAY, TO SEEK GOD, TO NOBLE BEREAN BIBLE STUDY and the to DECIDE whether or NOT the Lord is telling THEM PERSONALLY to incorporate that and to YIELD TO IT..
RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED as Selah.
HENCE, IFFM purports that PET LEADER,EVEN MATURE DOCTRINES, may be along the following lines
DRESS CODE: hair, jewlery, makeup, slacks, etc
DAY OF SERVICES, Sabbath Day off
BOOK OF ACTS EXPERIENCE: praying in tongues, moving in the gifts of the Holy Spirit, including length of music/worship in a service
TRIBULATION: Pre/Post/Midst
END TIMES, Israel, About the Rapture
POLITICS
TO HAVE MUSIC IN SERVICES OR NOT
WHETHER TO FOCUS ON SEEKING DARK DEMONS ON FEMALES OR INSTEAD TO RESPECT THE MOTHERS
WHETHER OR NOT TO MIX OLD TESTAMENT LAW WITH NEW TESTAMENT JESUS FREEDOM
BIBLE MINISTRY/FAMILY ROLES MEN AND WOMEN
WHO IS UNDER SPIRITUAL AUTHORITY? Views of “Spiritual Authority” “Ministry, Female Covering”
AND SURELY MANY MANY MORE…
Yet, IFFM draws the line at ministry accusation, law, even ABUSE based on CRITICAL JUDGING (Law, legalism) based on SECONDARY PET, CHURCH, MINISTRY NON “one Lord, one faith, one baptism” types of LEADER DOCTRINE.
IN PERSONAL MINISTRY GRASS ROOTS HINDSIGHT: the ONLY (few) times when this nonsuspecting, fully adhering to all Bible authority boundaries writer as “accuser suspiciously watched, had rumors spread, tales told was ONLY by “ministers” who viewed the FREE SPIRIT NON LEVITICAL NOT UNDER COVERING (but always in all ways NT Bible family, peer, mature leader Submitted) was ALL, ONLY, when critqued, judged through the lense of “PET SUSPICIOUS MINISTRY SUB GROUPS” only grass roots legalistic doctrines.
IN CLOSING: this makes the “HER” WRITER even more HONORED by her own senior pastor FATHER (Sr. Pastor M. Kimball Johnson, Jr..now up with the LORD) who raised her and her sister LIBERATED and NOT UNDER OLD TESTAMENT LEVITICAL DOMINATING LEGALISM.
YET, the writer is so sorry that so MANY of God’s amazing MINISTERS evidently were NOT raised amidst such joy and FREEDOM!
TO SUMMARIZE PART ONE The writer lays a big New Testament 5 fold office SELAH THEORY..on how to “perform” TRUE CROSS LEADER BODY UNITY.
IN THE MOUTH OF TWO OR MORE WITNESSES?
PSALM 133 echoes EPHESIANS 4 …as it fully teaches that GOD COMMANDS HIS BLESSING in HIS BODY TRUE UNITY.
SECOND PART: COMING...
This second half will show how AVOIDING God’s WHOLE BIBLE COUNSEL can create a five fold office grass roots senior ministry which picks and chooses ONLY what Bible verses happen to suit them. (Most of them being MAKING BIG MINISTRY PROGRESS, SELF PROTECTIONISM, OFTEN ACCUSATIVE while AVOIDING APOSTOLIC RELATIONSHIPS, including upfront MATTHEW 18:15 MINISTRY HUMBLE, ACCESSIBLE, MORAL CONFRONTATION.)
WILL included how an avoiding super achievement oriented 5 fold office lampstand can rationalize personal leader purposeful AVOIDANCE of 2 Timothy 3:16-17 Bible reproof, deflecting correction, and willfully choosing to AVOID being held accountable.
( May also include the sorry for itself compassion fatigued I Samuel Eli High Priesthood ?)
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