I have sought to do this for a long time, ever since I heard the term BLOG and what those who were doing it, were doing with it.  Hi, I am Brother William and I am a minister of the Lord Jesus Christ.  I am anti-everything that has been established by religion and/or denominationalism (the way a disciple of the Christ ought to be in my understanding).  I believe Jesus taught that religion and the religious reps of his time were the precise cause of the people not being closer to God.  Now, having been a part of organized religion as far back as I could remember, and having been a student and practitioner of bible teaching for more than a quarter century, I find the study of religion interesting in as far as how thwarted our understanding of God and his concepts really are.  Now by no means do I think I am the sole possessor of biblical truth or that I am the discoverer of luke-warm water (Old Colombian saying), but I have found myself on this journey of discovering God’s true nature and to be totally honest sometimes it becomes a bit lonely, not because I don’t think there are others who hold truth or live it, nor do I believe that any other who calls him or her self by the name of Christ is not my sibling in the spirit realm, no matter how different or irrelevant their position concerning God may be.  I use the term lonely because in this multi-membered, multifaceted body I (and the Bilble) call the Church, there’s a great lack of understanding and therefore vision, which according to God “My people perish (DIE) from lack of VISION.”   You’re probably wondering why I relate lack of understanding with lack of vision.  Well, Paul the apostle in his letter to the Ephesian believers said that he was praying for the eyes of their understanding to be opened and that that they would receive a spirit of revelation (=SPIRITUAL UNDERSTANDING).  So Paul, the called, appointed and anointed sent one (apostle) to those who didn’t have God (gentiles), relates understanding with eyes (-vs- hearing) and this received through a spirit of spiritual understanding.  I know, I know it gets a little Topsy-turvy with so much defining in parenthesis but it’s important if we’re going to understand it.  Sorry I digressed (really can’t help it), let me get back to the very beginning… After several traumatizing events, which I don’t find necessary to share at this juncture I found myself surrendering before whom I believed to be God in an emotional upheaval, during a mother’s day celebration at my little sister’s Church. After an incredibly pinpointed evangelistic sermon, I found myself in tears, on my face gripping the ankles of the man who would for the next three years pour himself into me and impart a passion for the work of the ministry .  I express myself in this manner because the experience which pushed me away from organized religion and into my incredible journey with the Lord didn’t come until almost three years later, when by God’s grace I began to receive from sevants of God delivering a message which drew back on personal opinions and predilectabilities and focused on what God had to say concerning so many of the issues the Church had dogmatic positions on.  O.K. I think we’ll stop there for today.  I shared with you a little on my beginnings and a little on “the other”, I’ll be praying that what we share in this new experience only expands the path of my journey and your desire to know Him better or join me in this walk to separate the wheat from the tare.

Thoughts or comments?