All focused on Yeshua, God's christened "Leader of Humanity" ("Leader" in every good way)

(Had a most delicious time with the CS team in Orange over the week-end. A "Ya'sure? week-end" Focused on Yeshua, mostly through the avenue of Mark's Gospel. Now to farther live it out.)

1. PreachingHeralding the Euangelion of the Rule of God (as Caesar's Heralds heralded Caesar's Rule),
2. Teaching what this announced Rule is really like, ("the kingdom of God (living under the Rule of God) is really like..." - this, or that, or the other... (remembering that the WAY he Rules is Love!)
3. Serving\Healing (of people, society's structures, etc) as a sign of the presence of God's Rule of Love through t-his anointed "Loving-Leader of Humanity", & of his coming further intervention (and of his anointing of others for further serving\healing) ..

Father God help us please...Thank you for such a help as you have given us. Just what we needed! The spirit of your son, Yeshua himself. Come on me, on our community, on our Cornerstone Community, on our Dubbo splintered community of Yeshua followers. Wash us clean, wash in (to us) with his tide, new strength & courage.  Stretch out your hand. And at your bidding, (with your spirit's help) we will stretch out ours too.

Oh, God! Your poetry is too vast and good!

Heralding - so people hear, &

Helping people to SEE your way of ruling/wooing- by LOVE;

to see it in their minds (to understand), and

to see it (demonstrated before them, concretely) to experience it, as a foretaste or sign, and lastly with some people

to start to have eyes that work (going from blind, to seeing), as a sort of a sign, of a sign.

Amen.

Here is a link  (goo.gl/UvK5l2) to something i want to weigh up this year, and 2016AD/CE. Anyone else's thoughts/results-of-experimentation would be gratefully accepted too. Use the comments in the google doc (right mouse, & choose "Comment"). PW

Cultural-Gramatico-Historical Introduction to Mark's telling of the Euangelion

This is a link to some piccies & text as a pdf document (2 pages) on the euangellion: Mark Intros ( goo.gl/oACiJZ ). It goes with about a dozen little stories which help understand the nuances behind the  first century use of the terms .. .. .. & that go with these (arti)facts. If you know of any, feel free to throw them in/ post them (with comments on the blog)....

• "euangelion" (Greek for good news / gospel; & from which we have our English terms evangel, evangelize, & evangelical, the term used for Caesar's message sent by his heralds, of the good news that the hearers are saved, given peace, and connected by Caesar who is Lord, the huios theos );
• "huios theos" (Greek; for the Latin: "divi fili/filius", & for the English: "son of god")
• "apostollo" (Greek for "I am sending", related to the noun for "sent one" / "ambassador")
• "angelon" (Greek for "messenger" / "angel", in the first case God's "angel" is John the Baptist, or John the Washer.
• "kyrios" (Greek for Lord, used of God (in the Greek translation of the early Jesus Followers' bible, but also used of any "teacher" [akin to the way some people still address a male teacher nowadays with "Sir"], and Caesar used it as his Real Title: "Caesar is Lord", was the mantra of the Roman Empire)
• "kyregma" ( Greek for the messaged heralded by the Emperor's Heralds)
• "baptisma" (Greek for the Jewish, but also used by other religions too, ritual washing to make one "clean", rather than "unclean", before spiritual realities.)