What Does God Want His Church to Look Like?

Friday night after small group, before going to bed, I asked God what do you want your church to look like?  His answer was simple, "My Son".  

I found myself in a lucid dream, I saw myself on a hill looking down on a large city, it had no walls but only one path bringing you to it, leading to a gateway. The city shined, illuminated in a golden hue.  Inside the city there where thousands of people going about their busy day, smiling, filled with joy.  They wore white robes accented with crimson red trim, and a purple sash.  Each was doing their own thing, but each chore, each labor was being done as an act of worship.  They all had a place in this community, all chose their work, they didn’t labor for necessity, they didn’t labor for need, they didn’t labor for obligation. They labored because they wanted too.  They labored for friendship, they labored for common good, they labored for love. I noticed that they lacked nothing.

I walked around and made my way to the center of the city where their gathering place was.  Outside the building was a sign that read “A House of Prayer for All People”, inside was the prayer room were those who worshiped without ceasing stayed, blessing the name of God and praising the Lamb.  The actual meeting took place outside, in the court yard where they all joined.  They began to gather one by one singing, dancing and worshiping the Father in the Spirit, as their numbers began to grow so did their strength, each one adding spirit to spirit, till they became a light that Illuminated the darkness of the world.  They worshiped the Majesty of the Father Blessing his Holy Name.  They worship the sacrifice of the Lamb. In turn heaven rejoiced and Joined the worship.  the Father honored the Son, and the Son Honored the father, then the Spirit grew in strength which honored the people,  Heaven honored earth, and earth shook its foundations to honor heaven and the King of Heaven. 

After worship the words spoken where of encouragement, edifying filling each soul with hope, filling them with the promises that God spoke to them.  They had their first love, they had the spirit of the Father’s promise alive in them.  They knew who they were in God, they knew what they had in God and they knew what they worked for, all belonged to the Father.  Their Identity in the Son gave them Joy and hope.

They didn’t go to church, they were the church.  Church wasn’t a chore or something they did on Sunday, they lived it. Faith and Love was their Bond reinforced by the Spirit of God.  Everything they did was worship, everything that they did was a living sacrifice of love. 

They Lived with their first love.  

THE LAST CRUSADE

Geopolitical events have been shaping our world to a showdown not seen since the second world war.  While most world leaders are horrified and unsure of what to call it and How to handle it?  It is clear that this enemy is decisively trying not just to dominate a region, it is trying to dominate the world, trying to enslave humanity and rule by total fear, all to usher in islamic utopia.  Yes, if it walks like a duck. Quacks like a duck and looks like a duck, ITS A DUCK!  

Prior to that solemn morning of September 11th 2001.  Acts of terror where political and regional in nature.  It was mainly a struggle seen for liberation both political and regional, whether it was the Palestinian/ Israeli conflict, Northern Ireland, Philippines, etc..   America was drawn into these conflicts because one of the parties involved saw her supporting their oppressors. while terror sponsoring nations like Iran, Libya, Sudan, Russia, and yes, even the US darling Saudi Arabia, stood in the backgrounds, supplying men, weapons, and finances.   

The few years prior to 9/11/01 gave birth to a new wave of ideology fueled by strict interpretation of religious writings.  We seen the oppression of the Taliban, Al Qaeda and their offshoots.  They are Supremacist in all sense of the word, they see the world in black and white, their way or No way.  Leaders (I use this term as a descriptive only) like Kadafi and Sadam Hussain only understood this threat too clearly and kept them in the shadows by the shear brutality of their regimes.  “Islam loves a strong horse”.  This new threat makes the prior groups look like girl scouts out fundraising.  They are well funded by the sales of cheap Blackmarket oil stolen from occupied lands to the sum of $6 Million per day. They have sophisticated Audio/video productions, as well as a propaganda machines. Killing is not hard for they are Justified by their God.  It’s more of an Honor to kill, so they kill freely without second thought, and the more brutal the better.  It’s membership are not just made of Arabs, it has attracted Global converts to Islam, Americans, Europeans, Asians and Africans with false promises of adventure, power, sex and paradise both here and hereafter.  They have declared war on Christians, Jews, Buddhist and everyone else including Muslims who won’t accept their ideology.

While weak back boned leaders decide how to deal with them, while they draw up letters of condemnation, while the UN sits in silence inept or afraid to speak out. They march across lands murdering innocents, looting, destroying history, committing every thinkable and unthinkable acts of savagery known to man.  While leaders think of what “terms” to call them, they gain in power.  Some will argue that it’s radical Islam, some will argue that not all Muslims believe in them.  Some will argue that they are just a Minority of the religion, a meek 10-30% of the Islam believing world.  I say with Islam having 1 Billion followers thats 300 Million radicals that want to Kill ME and YOU!  The population of the United States!  Really?  

Lets US make no mistake about this,  this will be the LAST CRUSADE, Because how The US and the world handles this will mean the difference between freedom or………