God is alive but His Church is dead!
The Church is like a wave. Indubitably the “church” — the “kirk”
means a swelling, not a building. The spiritual “Church” (capitalized)
is the growth of the Body of Christ, what the Bible calls “in Christ.”
In Christ is entangled with the Spirit, or “The Dynamic,”
of the Godhead. It is moving the Way as if Jesus Himself.
Thus, the Church is the growth in the number of
believers. The Church is the “quanta” that when broken down can be seen as
individual Christians as one spiritual wave.
“The Great Commission” is to distribute the truth of the
mystery of God over the face of the Earth, Mark wrote about that, “The gospel
must first be published among all nations” (Mark 13:10).
“Published” in that passage is literally “heralded” — to foreshadow
the object… to precede the Holy Spirit. It is a spiritual dynamic.
Christians are to precede the “gospel” (Greek; euangelion) — the “declaration”
The “Church” is not an object but a Dynamic. Buildings are stationary, but the Church is spiritually dynamic and as such invisible. The Bible likens it to a building, but the “building” is made of rigorous movements: “Said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles” (Luke 11:49). What for? Paul explained that:
(Christians are) “fellow
citizens with the saints, and of the household of God; and are built upon the
foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief
corner stone; in whom all the building fitly framed together grows unto an holy
temple in the Lord.” (Ephes 2:19-21)
Unfortunately, Christians have built a false church in the image
of the Phantom Church — the one true Church.
Each person who are in Christ are as “as lively
stones, are built up a spiritual house” (1 Pet 2:5). You are the ‘Church” and
so are the prophets, the apostles, and Jesus Christ. The Church was built on Peter,
as an apostle, but the Cornerstone of it is Christ.
Each Christian is a lively stone (zao lithos)… living
pebbles, or particles in the quanta of the rock. Likewise Peter is not a “rock”
but a mere “pebble” as the name means. The “rock” is the quanta of particles
within it, and the “pebbles” are individual quantum, and indeed are to
be packets of energy that together are the whole quanta of energy.
Now for some explanation: Jesus said to Peter, “That you are
Peter, and upon this rock I will build My church” (Mat 16:18). Peter was
a “lithos;” he was one of the many particles of the church (quantum
because it was not small stones but dynamics — spreading the truth). The
Church is the “Quanta” of the quantum particles.
The “Church” is not a building with people inside, but a “Garden”
with living souls outside as in the beginning.
The building is a “kirk,” but the structure of the
real Church is ekklesia — the whole of the spiritual bodies (the souls
of Christians) throughout the Earth. The Church is a dynamic wave of Christians
that influence others to join the wave.
Have you been to a home basketball game and did the “wave”? That
wave are individuals standing and sitting that mimics a wave of living bodies,
all with one purpose — to show support for the home team. They are the “Church,”
but their object of respect is just the team, centered often around one
glory-seeking individual.
The Invisible Church is much the same; it is individual
Christians in motion (dynamics) that when together form a wave. So long as they
are orchestrating as one, they are just a movement — a dynamic. When time is stopped,
the Church is no longer a movement but a stopped wave. Stop it again and the
movement can be seen as individual Christians whose souls are “shadows” of real
particles.
With the Church explained as a quantum movement, consider the
reality of the Church.
“What is truth?” Plato explained it with the “Allegory of the Cave:”
Plato describes people
that have spent their lives chained in a cave facing a blank wall. They watch
shadows projected onto the wall by objects passing in front of a fire behind
them, and they give names to these shadows. The shadows are the prisoners' reality
but not accurate representations of the real world. The shadows represent the
fragment of reality that we can normally perceive through our senses, while the
objects under the sun represent the true forms of objects that we can only
perceive through reason… Socrates explains how the philosopher is like a
prisoner who is freed from the cave and comes to understand that the shadows on
the wall are actually not the direct source of the images seen. A philosopher
aims to understand and perceive the higher levels of reality. However, the
other inmates of the cave do not even desire to leave their prison, for they
know no better life.
The Church is of the same structure: The Souls of the
believers are as real as the bodies of the believers, but they are not a Church
unless they are a movement. In a sense, the Church is just a movement
like a cloud over the face of the Earth but when stopped at two different
times, the observer should see a wave at one time and individual
living souls at another. You are one “quantum” in the movement of the quanta,
or it should be.
The modern “church” is an “Antichurch;” like the Church in
all respects, but it is not dynamic. The Church of this age is very unlike the era
of the true “Church of Christ;” the Antichurch has the numbers and the building,
but not the dynamic. Now, rather than “The Great Commission,” the church
is static, and the people must come to it, in opposition to the direction that
Jesus proposed.
It is arrogant for us to think that we are the “Church” when
we sit one day a week and even very silently and still on a church pew.
The true “Church” is a movement. Buildings and
ecclesia come and go in time, but the true Church is eternal, “and the gates of
hell shall not prevail against it,” thus finishing the quotation of Jesus.
The portal to the unseen realm of Hell shall not overcome
the Church. The Church is the “Ark” that carries Christians across the waters
to heaven, but not to Hell in the invisible realm.
The Church is made up of those who think like God and perform as Jesus would perform. The Church is like the movement of the Genome of God, like individual moving souls together in a wave. It is not an assembly of separate individuals going their ways but a number of quantum “in one accord” (Acts 2:1), making up a quanta that we call a “Church.”
The song lyrics say, “I shall not be moved,” but that is in belief. You must be moved to be saved! The Church must be a “Movement,” or it is dead, and by now most churches are just objects in a world going to Hell.
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