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.)

Following The Way…

I am starting (again) today to ask God to give me [maybe it's HIS eyes to see] a chance each "today", to grow in these "Big Ways", in following Jesus' lead to: 

q   listen like he did (actively, using questions if nec.; as my first, initial, default stance, "alive to listen") 

q   be slow to speak, not "not to speak", but considered-ly speaking. I think, after considering this for quite a while, God's agenda is that as his herald (I think that's what he has made me, though at times I am not sure), I should let other people know the (really good) news that Yeshua has been made the "Leader of Humanity" by God, - & I happen to think he's the best choice. Then I am assuming that God will make a chance, & I am praying for a time each day (in a way that really connects properly, & is not "forced"), to tell one of the Yeshua stories he has given me [either one of the hundreds of "Gospel" story-lets which we have in "Mat, Mark, Luke, & John, or one from my life (or another Xian's life) in this time since THE VISIT (I s'pose Acts is recording some of these for us Xians' sake)]. I think these have been told, & passed on to us in order for us to tell to others. I am leaving it up to God, at the moment as to who it is that he wants me to tell that little "pericope/storylet" to. I'm looking forward to seeing what he does today with me in this way. 

q   be slow to anger (or even frustrate, or vex; myself, or others). The apostle Paul's way of explaining something like this character-trait, which I think he saw in Jesus [seen in his interactions with all different kinds of people: demanding (or mouse-y), insincere (or sincere), faithless (or faithful), inteligent (or dim-witted)] was to "be very patient with all men". 

God, what sort of way have you given us to walk?  

A new & living way. 

This new way, springs from the new or second Adam who established & (since he did not remain dead after his death, but took life to a new level, he remains to share the enormous inheritance with us & can continue to be &) is our new human culture & new way of life. 

This living way is both our path to tread on[1], & the means by, & style in, which we walk [2]. 

Oh, this way is . . ."Too right"!!!

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[1] a "flying carpet" under our feet- though not above our life in the sense of aloof & beyond suffering, sometimes it's more like a "dying" carpet (he did say "Take up your own cross & follow me”), but the path he led the way on was going to come out the other side with a new kind of (resurrection) life.

[2] is somehow through his spirit in his people, the one who walks it in (co-operation with) us. Though we know that really it's him letting us be "co-operators with God".