This is the plan? It always was.

Internal reformation leading to external movement. Fuelled from Heaven. Earthed in us.

“I’s” blown wide open. New natures re-created as Adam’s bloodline is terminated and the tracks change to Christ’s federal Headship and family line.

Remember the BAD NEWS from earlier? If you have been born in thisb world, you will surely die from the deadly ‘I’ virus . But The Gospel of The Kingdom passports us across time and space into a new world as being ‘born again’ is more literally translated as ‘born from above’.

We’re under a nrw order, and the old virus loses it’s grip, but not always immediately or fully. Many of us here have found that a deeper and more penettative “Gospel shot” has severely weakened the old enemy, and so (frpm earlier)YES,  Christians need core surgery too?

That word is critical to us in THE NET. We desire to see The Kingdom come to a greater degree than we have ever seen, and we know that idols in our hearts must be exposed and torn down, willingly.

We are sensing that the ‘Together’ anti-dote to the “I” condition. Is working it’s way through the local bloodstrean in the remnant required, and it’sd more than a quick-fix salve.

The Gospel has begun to take on a whole new transformative edge at the core of peoples’ lives here, many of whom have been ‘Christians’ for decades.

Saved, but not to the uttermost!
They had left Egypt, but the bus to Canaan had left them behind

We don’t position ourselves by pleasing, climbing, competing or anything else self-driven.

This kind of self-propelled energy is at the core of the “splitting heirs” syndrome that has divorced us from our true inheritance!

It really does keep us apart as Divine Siblings.

We ‘get positioned’ by The Head in this Body. This temple is not made by human hands. He is the only authorized Builder.

There’s nothing new under the sun, as someone once said, and whilst we’re searching ‘out there’ for some new fangled solution, we will miss something, everything really, as the target is a little closer to home.

The problem is ME!

We see the root of our fatal ‘I’ problem in Isaiah 27. Bible scholars tell us that this passage refers to Satan, our Family’s arch-enemy.

He tricked our family with a tree!

He was the universe’s first ego-centric creature who’s desire to ascend caused a deadly virus to enter his own soul, and he successfully passed this onto Adam in Eden, and subsequently to all those born under his fallen federal headship (Romans 5).

Not great news really for those of us born on the earth! Very bad news indeed! (More on this later)

The broken-ness is as evident at the edges as it is at the core, if you dare take a look.

The fault-line runs through all of the “me’s” in the age-old story. It’s a heart condition that needs radical treatment, even for the saved souls still comong home, receiving the outpouring and communing with Jesus.

So, Christians need ongoing core surgery too? (More on this later)

The disease is both personal and corporate, but the healing has to start in me…why?

Because the big picture is made up of millions of little pixels. Every headline story has a sub-plot.

The New Testament Temple is made from  Living Stones, and He needs each of us to take our place with healed hearts.

The heart is the core. The word for ‘heart’ in a number of languages (including Latin and French) is ‘cuer’ from whence we get CORE.

All the creative power that was so wonderfully crafted by the Creator into the DNA construction of the universe, and everything else besides, was then released to destroy all forms of organic life by the created, on the created.

We tend to split pretty much everything He gives us. Atoms, apples, anything goes.

And now, if we’re not deliberately dividing The Body with our actions, we’re perfectly content to stand by and see Her separation illegitimately perpetuated by our inaction.

“That they may be One, as We are One”, declares Jesus as He speaks with His Father, the epitomy of ‘we and us’. But we have no real idea what He means, even though we preach sermons and sing sermons on this verse when unity is in vogue propositionally.

Yet, we deny the very essence of these truths every day in our ‘Christendom culture’, separating the pepple of God, the living stones, in our congregations and denominations with a daily generated  atomic energy and power that if turned in on itself would facilitate the reformation of all reformations.

We need less falling out and more fall-out! Less heated debate and more radiation. Let’s put the atomic CHURCH back together again.

What God has joined, let no man put asunder! He has called us to be One, arranged the parts, combined the members and distributed His gifts (1 Cor 12)….it’s His Wedding feast!

Let’s ask Him the million dollar question. “How are you One?” And be open to hear something come back that requires translation outside of the filters and paradigms that have has us bound, gagged and powerless for way too long.

Come on guys, let’s admit it? We’re painfully under-weight in the unity stakes. Having a ‘Churches together group’ in town is not really going to raise the area to the ground is it?

It demands more ‘us’…..all of us, not just  a few clergy-folk having a monthly chat over a green tea!

The Father’s unity is pictured beautifully as the Prodigal comes home, every time. The Holy Spirit’s unity is gloriously dispensed at Pentecost, and every day since.

And Jesus’ unity is perfectly delivered at the cross, both daily and eternally.

Let us ask them to reveal these things deep in our own hearts.

May we open our arms, pour out our hearts and take up our cross today and reflect His true ntaure so that the world around us may catch a glimpse of someONE very special indeed, the only One who can hear their cry,  reach inside their emptiness and heal their broken hearts.

“That they may be One”. This is the atomic energy that will save our planet, and the souls of men that fill it with God’s image.

Simply put, this is a movement to re-program our consumerist, ‘self-obsessed’ desire and need to prove something in that I occasionally have the misguided thought that maybe I can change the world, and think it is rooted in something genuinely altruistic.

Imagine, if we could just allow Him to transform something deep down inside of each one of us to view the world from a ‘we and us’ starting point, as opposed to to the traditional, deeply embedded and horribly debilitating paradigm of ‘me and you’ that has strangulated His Body in the Western world for more centuries than Heaven would probably have envisaged.