Welcome to Church Simplified
A simplified approach to being the church discovering a close personal relationship with the godhead
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The closer you get to the godhead, the more attuned you become to his direction for your life. God has a plan and a purpose for your life. The plan includes both the temporal as well as the eternal.
I have decided
At first, I thought I needed to completely rewrite the manuscript to reflect those views. I have since come to understand that my journey might be the discovery—perhaps even rediscovery—that someone else might need in order to begin his or her own journey.
I have decided
The point is, Peter’s relationship with the Lord was becoming stronger. This is what enabled Peter to keep making decisions to follow the Lord. This lack of strength of a relationship is what caused the other disciples to decide to walk away.
Follow Me
A close personal relationship with the godhead is centered on the plowed soil of your heart. It starts with the willingness to respond. The process may be slow, but the willingness never changes; in fact, it gets easier.
Follow me
A Christian song in the 1990s spoke about time to make a change. As I recall, a line in the song said, and we are the people who can do it. The life of a Christ-follower is about change. The Apostle Peter encountered change that day at the lakeside when Jesus said,...
Follow me
Three things that must be in place in order to listen to instruction. To begin with, your heart must be open to hearing something that your mind disagrees with. If you do not have an open heart in the matter, you naturally defend your belief or action. The words you hear are passing through the filter of your defense mechanism, and there only be one outcome—to defend your position.