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GenX - GenY -
Environmentalists - Anarchists
READ THIS!!
by Doug Perry
First off, we're REALLY, REALLY
sorry! We're praying daily that we can get the church to be
what it was always supposed to be so you won't see us anymore as the
hypocrites we are. Just as in the fairy tale about the
Emperor's New Clothes, it's youth that is willing to speak truth and
is unconstrained by convention and possessions. That's why
Jesus blessed the little ones and encouraged us to have faith as a
child. As it turns out, faith like a thoughtful, steady,
mature, settled adult who has enmeshed themselves in sinful culture
is disastrous for the church!!
We firmly believe that whatever
this is to become will be depent on the GenX/Y'ers and their energy,
enthusiasm, computer savvy, and willingness to take a stand. We
have always sent young people to fight our wars. So does God
(Daniel, Joseph, David, John the Baptist, Jesus, and on and on
through the ages).
Your generation has a very hard
time going into a giant fancy building and listening to guys in suits
and seeing big musical productions - where people leave unmoved and
unchanged. You don't need that stuff to find God and you think
it's frivolous and wasteful. And you're absolutely right.
Instead of trying to strategically cater to you with a new
"twist" on old church - we're advocating the complete
renewal of the church to its roots. Which just happens to be
exactly what you're calling for.
Your generation has been raised
up by God to throw off the status quo and the old assumptions.
It's not enough to do it this way because that's what we've always
done. You need to go back to the basics, to the very heart and
core of what the message of Jesus is all about. You have been
raised to respect nature, to recycle and reuse, to embrace people of
different colors and languages, to rage against "the
machine." Those in the Big Church establishments think
"the machine" is government and corporations, but it's not
just that. It's not just Big Government, Big Tobacco, Big Oil,
Big Pharmaceuticals - it's Big Church that stands condemned as well.
I absolutely believe that Satan
has built educational systems to get our children focused on all the
wrong things, to worship the creation rather than the Creator (Romans
1:25). To worship Mother Earth instead of He who made the whole
of creation. To worship the stars and constellations instead of
He who hung them. To value human justice and equality, instead
of looking to He who yearns for it more than any of us - and sent the
Word (Jesus) to acheive it and the Holy Spirit to constantly urge us
toward it.
But the joke is on Satan.
Jesus is the ultimate expression of stewardship, recycling, care for
the poor and disadvantaged, love for those different, respect for
nature and the beauty of Creation. You've been perfectly
prepared - by the Enemy - for what's coming! Your very souls
resonate and vibrate at a different pitch from the current Church
structures. Something big is on the horizon. A complete
revolution in our relationship to God and the expression of
Christianity. Many of you could feel it before we did. I
pray that we who have influence and should have known better than to
let it get this bad can change quickly enough that we don't lose all
of you forever.
To the Anarchists among you - God
bless you. You almost get it! Human structures and
heirarchies and organizational charts are blasphemous to the very
nature and spirit of God Almighty. God wants us in constant
communion with His Spirit and under the sole direction of His
will. No layers are needed if we're in harmony with God.
It won't be the disordered chaos that you picture it to be - God's is
the ultimate expression of process and order - He just doesn't need
man-made organizational structures. The day is coming when
Christ will reign on a glorified and perfected Earth for 1,000 years
in exactly that way. No layers, no structures - just us and
God. Please think carefully about the difference between the
Created and the Creator. The beauty and complexity of nature is
not the end, it's the glorious sign along the way that was created to
point to a loving, beautiful, complex God. DON'T let yourself
get sucked into any big, complex human structures - not the Church as
it currently is and especially not a One-World government designed by
sinful, imperfect man!
God sent His very own son Jesus -
a young radical intent on calling the people back to their core and
to restore their pure love for God (John 3:16-17) - even though
speaking against the establishment was to carry the cost of the most
horrible imaginable torture and death. He came to redeem
us of our sinful nature and offer us an opportunity to plug into the
One True Song.
Tell your friends! There
are "grown-ups" that get it! God has a plan and
YOU'RE at the front lines! Change is coming! Be a part of
the solution!
We don't want your money.
We don't want anybody's money. We want you to worship God.
We want the "Big Church" to repent of its sinfulness and
return to a love of God above all. The time of the worship of
money is come to an end.
Praise God for using a helpless
worm like me and offering His Son as a sacrifice to redeem my
sinfulness so that He could adopt us and make us all joint heirs with
Jesus. Change is coming! There are going to be some
people really, REALLY unhappy about having to give up all their stuff.
It's going to be a fun ride!
Copyright Doug
Perry 2004. Use freely
- but without charge and without changes. Link to:
www.FellowshipOfTheMartyrs.com
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