Hearing God

"We'll be learning about hearing the Voice of God. And I know a lot of people get all freaked out about that, that they go,
"Well how do I know it's not my imagination?"
You know what? There's only one way you're gonna find out. By obeying what you're hearing, and watching what God does.
Because we are disciples of the Kingdom of God, and the essence of discipleship is training, and the essence of training is making mistakes.
The problem with you and I and the Spirit of Religion, in the Abberant Religion of Christianity, is that nobody is allowed to make mistakes! We have to have 'perfect services'!
(I'm gonna step on some sacred cows now. Moo! Pull that tail!) Listen, we have all been infected with certain Spirits that have just run rife in the Church. And what has happened in the Abberant Religion of Christianity is that it's all about Sunday Morning, and having services that we go to.
That is not what the Bible teaches us. The Bible teaches us about having a relationship with God.
So what happened historically is that instead of being in a community that gives everyone permission to make mistakes so that we can learn and grow in the gifts and callings on our lives, we're moved away from that and had everyone come to a building on a certain hour where a certain service is preformed by selected elected people who, depending on the kind of cohersion that's going on wears certain costumes....
So we have services that are well defined and well scripted, so that the Church becomes a Theater. It's not a place where discipleship is made, it's a place where people are entertained! Because "We've got to keep the people happy!"
So they'll keep coming and keep putting their money in.
Authentic Biblical Religion is not about entertaining you and I.
It's not about keeping you and I happy.
It's not about taking our money.
What it is about is this:
What is the word of the Lord to you,
what are you doing about it,
and how can we help each other grow in that word?"

~Howard Morgan~

"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."

~Rumi~