There is a way of following Jesus that Jesus himself commands; it is a way of life that he models for us. This way involves focusing on the one thing necessary. Ony one thing. In this brief exhortation, we examine how to adopt this way of life.

In this brief exhortation, we encourage you to rejoice and take comfort that you have found your way out of the institutional church system and discovered the body of Christ in your small gatherings in homes or other spaces. Rejoice! You are Christ's little flock.

Many Christians struggle with issues related to their mental and relational health, and while there can be many causes, the one they seldom consider is their church affiliation. In this talk, we address the institutional church system as being the underlying cause for much of the suffering and burnout for today's believer, and what to do about it.

This is an introduction to a new YouTube channel that will soon be active. On this channel, we will work to help you recover a biblical understanding of the Body of Christ and your vital role in it, and thus escape the clutches of the institutional church system.

In this introductory episode, we turn to First John to guide us out of any religious system that is destructive even though it calls itself a Christian Church. And American airwaves and buildings are filled with such false churches. In this new series, we will discover that John sets the standards for what it means to be in fellowship with the apostilc proclamation and to know the complete joy that fellowship brings to those who embrace it. You need not suffer in silence in these church systems any longer.

Do you realize the nature and purpose of the body of Christ and your vital role in it? The apostle John tells us the apostlic proclamation is that the Word of Life was manifested within humanity, and that this incarnate love of the Father in the Son remains with us in our fellowship even today!

God has designed the body of Christ so as to be the continued presence of the ascended Christ on earth; by the ministry of the Spirit to one another and then to the world. We must avoid the pastor centered, sermon focused, sing-along "worship services" which fail to afford the time and format to engage one another for mutual edification and equipping to proclaim the gospel to the world.

Do you know the purpose of the Christian life? The Christian can become a very busy person with church life, church friends, church duties, etc, etc, and lose touch with the central purpose for the Christian life; the purpose that brings true peace.

What do we do when church attendance becomes toxic? What happens when years of attendance has failed to produce spiritual maturity and meaning in your life? It takes a lot of courage to ask these questions, and that courage is necessary if we are going to recover the truth that the church is the people and not the business or institution.

This is a brief but important reminder of the riches of the glory that are your inheritance in Christ. Tragically, most professing Christians possess a very impoverished view of what it means to be in Christ. They have little or no grounding in who they are in him, and they are therefore unequipped to fulfill that which God has called them to contribute to the body of Christ. This can end, beginning now . . .