WELCOME! LET'S GIVE CHRIST A PLACE TO REST HIS HEAD! Luke 9:58

You are invited to join us if ever in Crescent City, California. "Little Portion" meets "simply" on Sunday's at 4:00 PM. Send me a heads-up and I'll give you instructions as to place.

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GOD HAS PLACED EVERYTHING UNDER THE POWER OF CHRIST AND HAS SET HIM UP AS HEAD OF EVERYTHING FOR THE CHURCH. FOR THE CHURCH IS HIS BODY, AND IN THAT BODY LIVES FULLY THE ONE WHO FILLS THE WHOLE WIDE UNIVERSE. EPHESIANS 1:22-23

BUT WE ARE MEANT TO HOLD FIRMLY TO THE TRUTH IN LOVE AND TO GROW UP IN EVERY WAY INTO CHRIST, THE HEAD. FOR IT IS FROM THE HEAD THAT THE WHOLE BODY, AS A HARMONIOUS STRUCTURE, KNIT TOGETHER BY THE JOINTS WITH WHICH IT IS PROVIDED, GROWS BY THE PROPER FUNCTIONING OF INDIVIDUAL PARTS TO ITS FULL MATURITY IN LOVE. EPHESIANS 4:15-16

AND NOT HOLDING FAST THE HEAD, FROM WHOM ALL THE BODY, BEING SUPPLIED AND KNIT TOGETHER THROUGH THE JOINTS AND BANDS, INCREASETH WITH THE INCREASE OF GOD. COLOSSIANS 2:19

“IF WE WISH TO LIVE OUT THE LIFE OF THE BODY OF CHRIST, WE MUST COVER OUR OWN HEAD; THAT IS TO SAY, WE MUST NOT HAVE OUR PERSONAL OPINION, EGOISTIC WILL, OR SELFISH THOUGHT. WE CAN ONLY OBEY THE LORD AND LET HIM BE THE HEAD. THE LORD ALONE IS IN THAT POSITION; NOBODY ELSE CAN BE. I CANNOT BE HEAD, NEITHER CAN ANYONE ELSE IN THE CHURCH BE, FOR THE BODY HAS ONLY ONE HEAD AND IS IN SUBJECTION TO THAT HEAD, WHICH IS CHRIST. WE ALL MUST THEREFORE OBEY HIM.

“UNFORTUNATELY, THERE APPEARS TO BE IN THE CHURCH TOO MANY HEADS, TOO MANY HUMAN LEADERS, TOO MANY MEN’S WAYS AND REGULATIONS. TOO OFTEN MAN ASPIRES TO BE THE AUTHORITY. WHILE CHRIST IS HEAD IN HEAVEN, MAN WANTS TO BE HEAD ON EARTH. WHEN THE THOUGHT OF THE EARTHLY HEAD HAPPENS TO AGREE WITH THAT OF THE HEAVENLY ONE, WE OBEY CHRIST. BUT WHEN THE EARTHLY HEAD DISAGREES WITH THE HEAVENLY ONE, WE DISOBEY CHRIST. HOW WRONG IS THIS ENTIRE SYSTEM!” Watchman Nee, “The Body of Christ: A Reality”

1 Corinthians 12
Spiritual Gifts
Now about spiritual gifts, brothers, I do not want you to be ignorant. You know that when you were pagans, somehow or other you were influenced and led astray to mute idols. Therefore I tell you that no one who is speaking by the Spirit of God says, "Jesus be cursed," and no one can say, "Jesus is Lord," except by the Holy Spirit.

There are different kinds of gifts, but the same Spirit. There are different kinds of service, but the same Lord. There are different kinds of working, but the same God works all of them in all men.

Now to each one the manifestation of the Spirit is given for the common good. To one there is given through the Spirit the message of wisdom, to another the message of knowledge by means of the same Spirit, to another faith by the same Spirit, to another gifts of healing by that one Spirit, to another miraculous powers, to another prophecy, to another distinguishing between spirits, to another speaking in different kinds of tongues, and to still another the interpretation of tongues. All these are the work of one and the same Spirit, and he gives them to each one, just as he determines.

The body is a unit, though it is made up of many parts; and though all its parts are many, they form one body. So it is with Christ. 13For we were all baptized by[c] one Spirit into one body—whether Jews or Greeks, slave or free—and we were all given the one Spirit to drink.

Now the body is not made up of one part but of many. If the foot should say, "Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body," it would not for that reason cease to be part of the body. And if the ear should say, "Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body," it would not for that reason cease to be part of the body.

If the whole body were an eye, where would the sense of hearing be? If the whole body were an ear, where would the sense of smell be? But in fact God has arranged the parts in the body, every one of them, just as he wanted them to be. If they were all one part, where would the body be? As it is, there are many parts, but one body.

The eye cannot say to the hand, "I don't need you!" And the head cannot say to the feet, "I don't need you!" On the contrary, those parts of the body that seem to be weaker are indispensable, and the parts that we think are less honorable we treat with special honor. And the parts that are unpresentable are treated with special modesty, while our presentable parts need no special treatment. But God has combined the members of the body and has given greater honor to the parts that lacked it, so that there should be no division in the body, but that its parts should have equal concern for each other. If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.

PRAYER FOR HIS CHURCH

GOD HAS PLACED EVERYTHING UNDER THE POWER OF CHRIST AND HAS SET HIM UP AS HEAD OF EVERYTHING FOR THE CHURCH. FOR THE CHURCH IS HIS BODY, AND IN THAT BODY LIVES FULLY THE ONE WHO FILLS THE WHOLE WIDE UNIVERSE. Ephesians 1:22-23.

O MY LORD JESUS CHRIST! When I gaze into the eyes of your suffering, I know the cross wasn't meant only for salvation, but for the birth of Your Church. For Your Church came out of Your innermost, pierced by a Roman lance, freeing the blood and water of new birth.

Lord! It is Your intention that Your Church be under Your power and Headship. For the Church is Your body where You desire to live fully and express Yourself in all Your multi-splendored ways as Chief Magistrate, CEO, and Ruler of all.

O my Lord! This is not what I see! This is not what the world sees! This is not what devils see!

Lord. Your wineskin has become the habitation of willful men and their programs. It is encrusted by institutional structures and traditions that have little to do with Your will or or Headship.

You see Lord, the music, the songs, the sermons, are so tightly scripted, there's just no room for You.

Most of Your body just sits Lord. But they sit well. And they sing well and on que. Throw money in the plate. And listen to the sermon. But Your body is expressionless. It comes expressionless and leaves expressonless. And thus You are expressionless. Without mutual participaton of all Your members, be it hand, foot, eye, mouth, stomach, joints and sinew, we just see a portion of You through a glass darkly.

My Lord! What have we done? Forgive us. Release the prisoners of our religous convention. Set the captives Free! Heal the brokenhearted! Come and live once more in Your Church. Be Head over Your Church! Demolish all human headship and take Your rightful place. Live fully in Your Church and fill the universe with Who You Are! Come Lord Jesus!

IF ONE PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS, WHAT ARE TWO PICTURES WORTH?

A SPECTATOR CHURCH GATHERING "AC" AFTER CONSTANTINE

A SIMPLE CHURCH GATHERING "BC" BEFORE CONSTANTINE

SO WHICH IS MEETING ACCORDING TO I CORINTHIANS 14:26?
"What then brothers? Whenever you come together, each one has a psalm, has a teaching, has a revelation, has a tongue, has an interpretaton. Let all things be done for building up one another."