The Dream
The dream of people being free from the confines of religious activity. Free from the obligations they feel, and the time they spend and waste doing things that are not necessary in the relationship they long for with their one and only Father.
As our hearts are renewed our Father will form these groups by joining our souls with other people. They will be like tribes, only they will be closer than tribes, for the very binding that holds them together will be perfect love that lives within each individual within the tribe. There is no need for a “global” leader, for that leader already exists and is closer to each beloved child within His family, than any system of control could ever be.
A place where the older men share stories with the younger, of our Master, His life, and the life He offered to that man, and the life that man choose in following Jesus wherever He went. Of how the master led each man down the road into himself, and the crazy places that each man walked throughout the life and days that he was given. As the children sit and listen to the stories, they will be simply being offered an opportunity to walk with the Father in a way that has no limits. As their hearts are set free not through words or books, through sermons or speeches, they will be set free only through the very lives that we live, and the life that is available with the Father separate from any man made idol of who “God is.”
As the wind blows where it wishes so our Father is free to come and go as He pleases, from where we do not really know, and going where we cannot see, but we know the whole time it is indeed Him.
All are invited, but few are chosen to enter into the life that the Father truly offered. It is not negotiable, it is not up for discussion with us, for it is not our decision but it simply is this way. The road and the gate are narrow and few truly find that way to the Father.
Is it possible for this life to exist within the systems that exist today? No. Any form of system in which everything revolves around men, their doings, and their elevation is not the way that the life in Jesus was ever lived, and can ever be lived. The system is invented to try and contain something that is in fact uncontainable. For no one can contain God, and since He is the preeminence of all things, since He is in all things, since we are follow Him where we do not know, we must always remember that we ourselves were never meant to contain Him as we hold things that we ourselves invent or control. For we did not invent, create or control Him, but He created us.
If it were possible for the life of fullness to exist within the system, it would already be there within the system that has been operating for 1700 years. If it is not there yet, it will not be there by us “making changes” to the system. Life cannot be lived within a system. Because life is not systematic.
In light of this life, in light of the desire that we may have to share it, we must never forget that we ourselves must first BE in this life. Not “living” it as if we had something to do with getting to the point we are at, but simply BEing within the life that Jesus has given to us as a gift.
There is coming a time when men and women will gather together because they are part of a family of God, not because they need to sing songs or take communion. When people will gather with one another because they truly do have “all things in common” and not because they feel forced to. How do I know? Because this is not the wishes of Ryan S Cadwell, this is the desire of my Father who will cause this, and offer this in His timing, through His power and not my own.
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4.14.2005
The first community of Christ was formed by whose hand? Jesus called those who were seeking Him, and He made them a community, they did not do it themselves. Did they actually have a hand in “creating” the community?
No, not really. They were broken individuals and each one had to go through times of healing that came from the Father alone, and were given a community of broken people that He chose and put together on purpose. It was not created by some “contagious” or “charismatic” individual who can “attract” people to himself through gimmicks, crazy activities or great speaking (all man made). Jesus was what brought them together, and Jesus is who did the bringing together, no man did it, Jesus Himself.
In Acts 1-2, did they run out and start “creating” communities with activities and speaking? No, they obeyed the Father and Jesus Himself, waited on Him, and then the communities began springing up all over the Middle East just within the lives of people.
Modern society is so quick to “make a system” of building churches. You know, I have seen and lived within these systems of men, and you can have that bullshit because that caused more damage to me than healing.
Again I return to this one thing. How ACTIVE is God in this world and in the building of His own Kingdom? We cannot skip over this question or we will do the building ourselves. We cannot deal lightly with this question.
Just how ACTIVE is God in building His own Kingdom? From what I have seen in human history of kings and kingdoms, the result of the Kingdom is not so much up to the peasants but to the king himself. Yet, we like the idea that the kingdom we “say” we want to be a part of, yet we will not be what we were created to be within the Kingdom that He is building.
“But God desires to use us in His Kingdom and in building it!” - [common self elevating argument of most self seeking “Christian” leaders and even “Christians” themselves have bought into this partial truth]
I put the word Christian in quotations because they claim a title yet have not died to themselves, they have not picked up a cross and actually desired to die, yet still call themselves this because they went through the motions and demands of modern religion which are motions never even described or issued by our master. They were set up so that those who did not really want to “Die” could still feel “safe” about their life and their eternal salvation. Don’t believe it, why is most of what churches talk about with eternal life a future thing? Because they do not want it to change their desires and building of their own life in the here and now.
I am not their judge, but their lives, or fruit, simply show that life is not about others, or even Jesus but themselves. So how could they be dead if life is actually about them, and them being elevated instead of Jesus our King and Master, whom the early brothers always spoke of and elevated instead of themselves and their “groups” or “programs?”
This is a common argument to the statement and idea of it being His Kingdom and not our own. It is even a common argument within myself, as I have heard it for so long, but we need to seek our hearts and be careful what we are saying here. Are we elevating ourselves, because we are afraid that He will not elevate us?
Will God use us within His Kingdom? Yes. Does He need us in order to have a Kingdom? NO. Does He need us to do anything for His Kingdom to exist and operate? No.
That is the difference. Seeing the Kingdom for what it is, His. If He invites you into a place of leadership, you will have to do nothing but Be yourself. He will not invite you, and not give you what you need in order to follow Him into the unknown.
Do we inherit the kingdom? Yes. But we did not earn it or build it, we inherited it. We are sons, who are given something we did not deserve. Remember the prodigal son? We are given something that is not in fact ours, that we did not earn because we are His son and no other reason.
As all things are with our Father. If we do not accept things as a gift, but seek them as a reward to our working, and doing, then it is all up to us and we will actually lose everything. When Adam and Eve did not accept all things as a gift, but reached for something that was not theirs or given to them, the result was that they lost all that they were given in their striving to take something and make something their own without their Father having anything to do with it. This is what Jesus meant by “he who tries to save his life will lose it.” We can only receive the Kingdom and true community for the gift that the Father will make it in His time, when you are ready for that community to exist. For even the disciples did not have true community with one another until they came to the end of themselves, and the beginning of Christ reigning fully in their lives. Which in itself is nothing earned but a gift.
As our hearts are renewed our Father will form these groups by joining our souls with other people. They will be like tribes, only they will be closer than tribes, for the very binding that holds them together will be perfect love that lives within each individual within the tribe. There is no need for a “global” leader, for that leader already exists and is closer to each beloved child within His family, than any system of control could ever be.
A place where the older men share stories with the younger, of our Master, His life, and the life He offered to that man, and the life that man choose in following Jesus wherever He went. Of how the master led each man down the road into himself, and the crazy places that each man walked throughout the life and days that he was given. As the children sit and listen to the stories, they will be simply being offered an opportunity to walk with the Father in a way that has no limits. As their hearts are set free not through words or books, through sermons or speeches, they will be set free only through the very lives that we live, and the life that is available with the Father separate from any man made idol of who “God is.”
As the wind blows where it wishes so our Father is free to come and go as He pleases, from where we do not really know, and going where we cannot see, but we know the whole time it is indeed Him.
All are invited, but few are chosen to enter into the life that the Father truly offered. It is not negotiable, it is not up for discussion with us, for it is not our decision but it simply is this way. The road and the gate are narrow and few truly find that way to the Father.
Is it possible for this life to exist within the systems that exist today? No. Any form of system in which everything revolves around men, their doings, and their elevation is not the way that the life in Jesus was ever lived, and can ever be lived. The system is invented to try and contain something that is in fact uncontainable. For no one can contain God, and since He is the preeminence of all things, since He is in all things, since we are follow Him where we do not know, we must always remember that we ourselves were never meant to contain Him as we hold things that we ourselves invent or control. For we did not invent, create or control Him, but He created us.
If it were possible for the life of fullness to exist within the system, it would already be there within the system that has been operating for 1700 years. If it is not there yet, it will not be there by us “making changes” to the system. Life cannot be lived within a system. Because life is not systematic.
In light of this life, in light of the desire that we may have to share it, we must never forget that we ourselves must first BE in this life. Not “living” it as if we had something to do with getting to the point we are at, but simply BEing within the life that Jesus has given to us as a gift.
There is coming a time when men and women will gather together because they are part of a family of God, not because they need to sing songs or take communion. When people will gather with one another because they truly do have “all things in common” and not because they feel forced to. How do I know? Because this is not the wishes of Ryan S Cadwell, this is the desire of my Father who will cause this, and offer this in His timing, through His power and not my own.
___________________________________________________________________
4.14.2005
The first community of Christ was formed by whose hand? Jesus called those who were seeking Him, and He made them a community, they did not do it themselves. Did they actually have a hand in “creating” the community?
No, not really. They were broken individuals and each one had to go through times of healing that came from the Father alone, and were given a community of broken people that He chose and put together on purpose. It was not created by some “contagious” or “charismatic” individual who can “attract” people to himself through gimmicks, crazy activities or great speaking (all man made). Jesus was what brought them together, and Jesus is who did the bringing together, no man did it, Jesus Himself.
In Acts 1-2, did they run out and start “creating” communities with activities and speaking? No, they obeyed the Father and Jesus Himself, waited on Him, and then the communities began springing up all over the Middle East just within the lives of people.
Modern society is so quick to “make a system” of building churches. You know, I have seen and lived within these systems of men, and you can have that bullshit because that caused more damage to me than healing.
Again I return to this one thing. How ACTIVE is God in this world and in the building of His own Kingdom? We cannot skip over this question or we will do the building ourselves. We cannot deal lightly with this question.
Just how ACTIVE is God in building His own Kingdom? From what I have seen in human history of kings and kingdoms, the result of the Kingdom is not so much up to the peasants but to the king himself. Yet, we like the idea that the kingdom we “say” we want to be a part of, yet we will not be what we were created to be within the Kingdom that He is building.
“But God desires to use us in His Kingdom and in building it!” - [common self elevating argument of most self seeking “Christian” leaders and even “Christians” themselves have bought into this partial truth]
I put the word Christian in quotations because they claim a title yet have not died to themselves, they have not picked up a cross and actually desired to die, yet still call themselves this because they went through the motions and demands of modern religion which are motions never even described or issued by our master. They were set up so that those who did not really want to “Die” could still feel “safe” about their life and their eternal salvation. Don’t believe it, why is most of what churches talk about with eternal life a future thing? Because they do not want it to change their desires and building of their own life in the here and now.
I am not their judge, but their lives, or fruit, simply show that life is not about others, or even Jesus but themselves. So how could they be dead if life is actually about them, and them being elevated instead of Jesus our King and Master, whom the early brothers always spoke of and elevated instead of themselves and their “groups” or “programs?”
This is a common argument to the statement and idea of it being His Kingdom and not our own. It is even a common argument within myself, as I have heard it for so long, but we need to seek our hearts and be careful what we are saying here. Are we elevating ourselves, because we are afraid that He will not elevate us?
Will God use us within His Kingdom? Yes. Does He need us in order to have a Kingdom? NO. Does He need us to do anything for His Kingdom to exist and operate? No.
That is the difference. Seeing the Kingdom for what it is, His. If He invites you into a place of leadership, you will have to do nothing but Be yourself. He will not invite you, and not give you what you need in order to follow Him into the unknown.
Do we inherit the kingdom? Yes. But we did not earn it or build it, we inherited it. We are sons, who are given something we did not deserve. Remember the prodigal son? We are given something that is not in fact ours, that we did not earn because we are His son and no other reason.
As all things are with our Father. If we do not accept things as a gift, but seek them as a reward to our working, and doing, then it is all up to us and we will actually lose everything. When Adam and Eve did not accept all things as a gift, but reached for something that was not theirs or given to them, the result was that they lost all that they were given in their striving to take something and make something their own without their Father having anything to do with it. This is what Jesus meant by “he who tries to save his life will lose it.” We can only receive the Kingdom and true community for the gift that the Father will make it in His time, when you are ready for that community to exist. For even the disciples did not have true community with one another until they came to the end of themselves, and the beginning of Christ reigning fully in their lives. Which in itself is nothing earned but a gift.
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