One Billion Wanderers - Without True Daily Ekklesia

12/18/2012

One billion wanderers in christendom, without true daily Ekklesia (Biblical Church) -- 1 billion who are essentially Orphans and Street People, never reaching a fraction of their potential. Why?

From a documentary: “A grandma took in her 15-16-year old grandson, rescuing him from a bad home life. After some time, the boy ran away and began sleeping on the streets, literally. We find out what's happening here from Grandma. ‘I cook his meals, I wash his clothes, and i give him a place to live, and I thought asking him to do a few chores and to take out the trash was only fair. But he didn't want anything to do with that.’ This young teenager was willing to run away from his home and grandmother because she was ‘forcing him’ to do too much. Take out the trash. Rinse off your dishes. Make your bed. He wanted to live completely free of charge that when she asked him to take on a role in the house, he viewed it as unfair and controlling -- and ran away to live and sleep in the streets. He would rather be a victim of crime and disease and incredible discomfort sleeping on the streets and park benches, rather than be responsive in any way to anyone other than his own desires and standards. He threw his life away on a foolish whim and self-love.”

Some “spiritual” street people are victims of circumstances. Many of those with no daily Life in Jesus (with others who are passionately in love with Jesus and who “hate the world and the things of the world”) are victims—due to those around them expressing little or no true daily expressions of love and leadership and protection, and they, in turn, do not know to be doing this for others. These “spiritual street people” LONG for meaning and relationship in Christ, “bearing one another's burdens, thus fulfilling the Law of Christ” and “serving one another” “bearing with one another” “loving one another” “confessing sins one to another” “being called alongside one another daily so that none are hardened and deceived by sin” “encouraging one another” “always hoping, always trusting” and truly, visibly, “MEMBERS OF ONE ANOTHER.” They have no contentment in sitting in a pew or chair for a couple hours a week, a choir, and a home meeting—and then going back to a life devoid of intimate daily relationships with those who “love not their lives, even to the point of death.” These LONG for 1Cor. 12-14 daily LIFE, but are victims of a culture of a “famine in Hearing of the Word” no matter how many “bible studies” they've “attended.”

Some street people, like the foolish boy in the documentary, are victims of their OWN evil (and totally illogical) desire to rebel or react. They will stomp their foot and draw the line around themselves and their “feelings”—regardless of the consequences that are a million times worse than the simple responsible behavior asked of them. Some minimal amount of guidance that escaped them as being reasonable and legitimate is “too much to bear.” Truthfully, there are some who just don’t want to be “crossed” and think it justifiable to react instead of love and respond, even if it results in becoming a “spiritual street person.”

So, if a BILLION excellent folks are “spiritual street people” with no daily Biblical relationships (Acts 2:42-47, 1Cor.12) and without what Jesus said SHOULD be the Church (a Hundred Mothers and daily deep relationships)—perhaps we should be willing to consider a different direction in life than what has resulted in a Billion street people, and leaven-filled organizations? Maybe so. It comes “natural” to us all, obviously, or doing the things that make us street people wouldn't be so ubiquitous. But it is still, as Einstein famously said, “insanity to keep doing the same things, and expect different results.”

Can we reconsider? :)

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