tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13792024.post7776774634258109179..comments2024-03-15T07:24:22.608+00:00Comments on Life on Wings - A Tribute to Dr Ern Baxter: A NEW Look at Ephesians 4 MinistriesDan Bowenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15661120561123767936noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13792024.post-65326581814495746842010-11-30T13:47:12.852+00:002010-11-30T13:47:12.852+00:00Think about when Ephesians was written. Everything...Think about when Ephesians was written. Everything was in flux. Church life was largely too precarious to be anything else. The first church at Jerusalem looks like a complete disaster...but think about it, if it was such a disaster, why is Dan Bowen a Christian then? Clearly wasn't so much of a disaster then.<br /><br />Ministry posts on here are like a hot button. Probably to prove to myself that I am not a failure!<br /><br />If the Spirit transfer of the Word of Christ is 1. alot more fleeting than we think and 2. The Spirit transfer of Christ is more powerful than we think<br /><br />we can begin to understand how Jerusalem church can exist for so short a time and like blowing dandelion seed into the air, be so effective.<br /><br />Human "office" structures can exist for very human reasons. Rob Rufus is a good example of someone operating on 2 levels. The man I met up at Hope Latimer Conference did not get on well in Rob's church. His son did. This tells us that at least one level of what rob does is provide a "wineskin" for 20 -35 years olds in particular who not only need Spirit input, but some kind of security hub for themselves as developing young adults. Older adults may not fit in too well to some of what is going on.<br /><br />On another level, both in his church then via podcasts and conferences Rob is delivering a Grace Word that is setting countless free, and helping people transition out of the now traditional "charismatic" scene into......<br />you have to fill in the gaps. I have written at length on this, but only those who receive what some of us are coming up with on the net and Facebook will actually make any of it live in practice.<br /><br />So we see already that we may have a local function. An international function. A function for a particu;ar subsection. A function for a limited Spirit operation over a period. Take Rees Howells Intercession ministry in the 2 nd World War, after which he died.<br /><br />As I've said many times, if our goal is reproducing Christ<br /><br />who bloomin well cares about proliferating particular network structures. If that recognition of Christ in you as you leads to writing a book late into the night when the children are in bed, like Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and this sets alight an important transition in history,<br /><br />are we worried that she was never high profile in some church network?<br /><br />If the local church is a nest, it's the birdies that fly!!!!Chris Welch - 07000INTUNEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17932291173536070080noreply@blogger.com