Archives 2018

Questions March 25, 2018

2018 March 25th Streaming

This week in Sunday Fellowship we will be doing something different.  A panel of several fellowship members, including me, will answer and discuss questions you have concerning the teachings and messages we’ve shared with you.  So, please send your burning questions to this email ASAP, hopefully, by this Friday.  No names will be use to identify your questions, unless you want your name mentioned.  This is not to find out who is “right” or “wrong” about those things some might not understand.  I am looking forward to this time of fellowship.  It should be fun and different!

Thank you in advance for sending us your interesting and important (or even silly) questions!   Let’s talk about it…

 

Questions March 18, 2018

2018 March 18th Streaming

This week in Sunday Fellowship we will be doing something different.  A panel of several fellowship members, including me, will answer and discuss questions you have concerning the teachings and messages we’ve shared with you.  So, please send your burning questions to this email ASAP, hopefully, by this Friday.  No names will be use to identify your questions, unless you want your name mentioned.  This is not to find out who is “right” or “wrong” about those things some might not understand.  I am looking forward to this time of fellowship.  It should be fun and different!

Thank you in advance for sending us your interesting and important (or even silly) questions!   Let’s talk about it…

 

The Greatest Exchange Ever Made Known! Part 2

2018 March 11th Streaming

Sonship is not a place or destination. It is Personhood. It is the end of our illusions and the beginning of our reality as the Son of God! This week in fellowship we will conclude the message from last Sunday on “The Greatest Exchange ever made known”. As I said last week this was the source of our “Great Exchange.” The Greatest made the Great possible. I will continue with the diagrams to explore this God idea. There is a depth in the Spirit to learn concerning this subject. I am trusting the Father to reveal something in Himself many of us might not have seen or known before. Let’s talk about it!

 

 

The Greatest Exchange Ever Made Known! Part 1

2018 March 4th Streaming

This week in fellowship one more message on “Exchange”.  I received a text this week from our dear sister Rhonda about last week’s message. It very encouraging and inspiring.  What came to me was the source of our “Great Exchange.”  It was the Greatest Exchange Ever made Known!  The Greatest made the Great possible. My intent is to use a diagram one more time to explore this God idea.  There is a lot to learn concerning this subject.  I am trusting the Father to reveal something of Himself many of us might not have seen or known.  Let’s talk about it…

 

 

The “Great Exchange” and the power of Our Identity!

2018 February 25th Streaming

Identity reveals and tells us who we are to ourselves and to others.  It is our “True” self-expression which flows out of a fixed and complete and absolute foundation.  For us to know and understand who we are in Christ we must know and understand the “Great Exchange”!  There are many cases of an “illusion of explanatory depth” when it comes to our identity in Christ.  Why is that?  Because many believers today are caught in the illusion of mistaken identity by receiving and placing their identity in husbands, wives, children, churches, (such as denominations, institutions, organizations, and buildings with many deep rooted on-going belief systems) having right-wing or left-wing earth-bound ideology. These are all outer identities according to flesh and blood logical thinking. By living in this type of thinking, we are deceived and held captive, and will never leave our mistaken or false identities.  Sadly, desensitization to the person of Christ and the sensitization to our flesh and blood outer identities leave far too many never knowing and understanding the power of the “Great Exchange”!

 

 

What is being or becoming FREE of Religion?

2018 February 18th Streaming

We continue this week with who the Father is to each of of us who has ears to hear what the Spirit is saying! I often hear believers and avid church goers use the phrase, “I’m so glad I am free of religion”. Maybe you’ve uttered these sincere and meaningful words. It seems religion is something to be avoided! But what is religion? Can anyone be really “FREE” of it? If you listen closely to what many declare about religion, it is something others have and not them. Several years ago I was listening to a preacher of a large denominational church talk about another denomination as being religious. I smiled, because it sounded like the pot and kettle analogy. Why does it appear almost everyone wants nothing to do with religion? Yet they are no further from religion than when they first started. That being said, many who are declaring they are “FREE” of religion are held captive in the “illusion of explanatory depth”. I know that’s a pretty strong and bold statement. Let me ask you a question, as I conclude this email. Do you think, feel or believe everyone who calls themselves “Christian,” really is? Jesus answered this question in the Gospel of Mathew chapter 7. The answer to the question is “no” they are not. If the answer were “yes” then salvation would be subjective. Does everyone declaring to be “FREE” of religion mean they are? No! Their problem is simple – It’s Spiritual! Four factors many have failed to see with their eyes, hear with their ears, or comprehended with their minds. Let’s talk about it…..

 

The Box – A Tale of Two Identities Part 2

2018 February 11th Streaming

This week we will continue in our series The Box – A Tale of Two Identities Part 2: “Your Second Identity – The New Creation – Your Identity As The Son of God”. We live within our box identities, believing that we have accepted Jesus into our hearts to make us better people, and that He has given us His Spirit to ‘help us’ become ‘like’ Him. We might even wear a bracelet to remind ourselves to ‘do what Jesus would do’. Some will agree that Jesus ‘lives’ inside of their ‘heart’ while others will acknowledge that they have become a different person. However, very few understand or can explain the width, the height or the depth of what it means to have become this new creation. I know a few listening today understand the new birth and the resultant union with Christ, but you have never known or understood God’s full intent and purpose for that union. Last week we discussed the box identity – our conforming identity when our soul relates to our flesh. This week I want to discuss the new creation identity – a transforming, spirit/soul identity that is ours the moment that we receive and believe on the person of Christ.

The Box – A Tale of Two Identities

2018 February 4th Streaming

Greetings Everyone,
For the past several weeks David has taught on identity.  It is a subject I truly sense the Church does not comprehend because of desensitization to the person of Christ, and it’s attachment to the two person gospel.  Today I will continue with more on identity.
The Advanced English Dictionary defines ‘identity’ as who you are. Simply, “your identity is who you are”. I have no problem with that definition. The problem lies in that too many born-again believers do not know who they are. Every person immediately has three identities the day they are born into this world. You have an identifying name, a gender and a race identity. From the moment we take our first breath, we begin a quest searching for meaning and identity. How can we not? That desire was birthed in us by the creator. For the next two weeks, I want to talk to you about The Box – A Tale of Two Identities. Let’s walk down that road of life that defines who we think we are and who we were truly created to become. You do not want to miss this series. I’m trusting our Father will change your perception of who you are.
Love in Christ,
Kurtis

 

Christ Identity: Union, Oneness and Image God Provides

2018 January 28th Streaming

We have discussed Identity: It’s  weakness, Illusion and Strength, followed by Identity Crisis: Fears, Illusions, Captivity and Absolutes.  This week in fellowship we’ll talk about Christ Identity: Union, Oneness, and Image God Provides.  We will talk about the meaning and purpose of identification, identify, identity and image of true self expression. The struggle many are having today with identity (that would include Christ identity), is they receive and learn identity from the outside inward.  When this is the source of your identity and person-hood, then everything you are is passing away.
        
        1Co 7:31 and those who use this world as not misusing [it]. For the form of this world is passing away.
        
        1Co 2:6 Yet we do speak wisdom among those who are mature; a wisdom, however, not of this age nor of the rulers of this age, who are passing away;
 
What then makes identity so important or even critical? It is in identity where true personhood is expressed.  It is true self-expression! Weather in the Spirit or in the flesh. Biology identity or Spiritual (Christ) identity is a result of union and oneness. God has provided an two images for humankind.  One that’s created by Him and one birthed by Him.  Let’s talk about it…