Sunday, 28 September 2025
Friday, 26 September 2025
Is Facebook Church and the internet valid asks Jonathan Brennemann ?
Jonathan Brennemann asks
Are Facebook and the internet valid ways to have "church?" They aren't perfect and may lack a few things, but many people receive more of what church is supposed to be on the internet than in "church services."Churchianity is concerned more with appearances than with the heart. It's concerned with people "finding a pastor," but the Bible is concerned with pastors finding the lost sheep. It's upside down. The Bible is concerned with people actually being pastors, with real fellowship, relationships, life, not just appearances. Churchianity is often concerned with spectator events, hierarchies, and titles.
Churchianity doesn't understand that "walking alone" isn't always a sign of rebellion. Curry Blake said, "If you're going to walk with God, at some point you're going to have to walk alone." The apostle Paul said, "Everyone abandoned me." There was a time he had to walk alone. Jesus said the people were like sheep without a shepherd, not because they didn't have religious programs or leaders, but because those leaders were abusing them, not shepherding them. Paul said, "I have nobody like Timothy who genuinely cares for you."
So it is possible for people to be immersed in churchianity, have their "pastor," their "church" programs, and be lonely and like sheep without a shepherd.
I love face-to-face interaction, and I think it's important to seek it in some way. The early church met around a table, not around a sermon. The communion meal is one of the scriptural essentials and teachings of Jesus, and it's hard to really have what that is supposed to be without face-to-face interaction. Also, the laying on of hands is one of the foundational doctrines of Hebrews 6, and it happens in person.
But how much of what the Bible teaches actually happens in a typical church service, and how much happens on the internet? Communion happens maybe once a month and isn't really a meal in most cases in the church service. You can't have it as a communal meal online, although you can eat a wafer and drink a shotglass of grape juice on zoom just as you can in a church service.
The one-another commands? Teach one another, instruct, confess your sins, exhort, encourage, love...very little of that happens in the typical church service. The church functioning as the body of Christ as described in 1st Corinthians 11-14? Barely at all! I've never been in a church service that embodied all 1st Corinthians 11-14 describes. There's a big difference between Biblical Christianity and churchianity.
Many people experience far more of what is supposed to happen in the body of Christ on Facebook, Zoom, and online venues than in church services. When I moved to Brazil as a missionary, most abandoned me, and I found fellowship online.
I've experienced far more teaching each other, encouraging each other, confessing your sins to each other, exhorting one another, fellowship, seeing godly examples, godly counsel, and functioning as the body of Christ over Facebook than in any religious institution. Many have the same experience.
Really, ALL of the people who inspire and challenge my faith, I am connected with over the internet or in some other way, not in a local institution. Even when there are people whose life is a godly example in the local institution, the constant programs and busyness aren't a good context to allow people to see that example.
I see far more testimonies in one day on Facebook than I would hear in a year in most institutions. I have probably a few hundred friends who heal the sick and preach the gospel. Some of raised the dead. Every day, I see friends posting testimonies of deafness healed, the blind seeing, the lame walking, cancer gone, paralysis healed, sometimes the dead raised. I share more of God's word and testimonies and do more to encourage others on Facebook than I could in a local religious institution. If I want godly advice, the people who I feel I would like to talk to are are not in a local church. Many are on Facebook or WhatsApp. And our relationship is mutual, not "You're my pastor."
I have experienced far more miracles, words of knowledge, healing, and most of what is supposed to happen among us as the body of Christ over the internet than I feel would be possible in any local institutional church.
If I want edification, testimonies, good teaching, I go to YouTube and find there what I don't find in any local church. I watch a Jesus Encounter Ministries meeting, or listen to Curry Blake or Dan Mohler...
I believe it's ideal to also have face-to-face fellowship in some way, not necessarily in the way churchianity prescribes. But can we also have church over the internet? Is it valid?
Of course it is! Didn't Paul disciple and teach people through his letters? Were they not valid because he wasn't present face-to-face with them, even though he wanted to be?
I am aware of many people finding Christian fellowship primarily on the internet. Sometimes people immersed in Churchianity are judgemental of those who find fellowship online and not in their programs. But instead, they should be humble and realize that their programs are not edifying people, and what is happening in their programs is mostly not how the Bible says the body of Christ is supposed to function. People are going online to find what is lacking in their religious institutions!
I have both face-to-face fellowship and an extensive connection to the body of Christ worldwide over the internet. We have miracles happening all over the world, salvations, deliverance, godly counsel, repentance, exhorting and encouraging one another, and most of what is supposed to happen in church over the internet. And most of that is NOT happening in the religious programs.
People immersed in Churchianity think something isn't healthy in my life because I don't think in terms of "What church do you go to?" but in terms of relationship and healthy interaction with the body of Christ. I don't think in terms of "so-and-so is my pastor," but in terms of eldership, godly example, mutuality, relationships. They think I need help and correction, but I consider them to be living in spiritual poverty when riches are available, because they are experiencing very little of what church is supposed to be according to the Bible.
They think my relationship to the church isn't healthy, but I think that in most cases, it's far more healthy, involved, and extensive in almost every aspect than theirs is!
My reply
YES but what is church ? Rabbi synagogue or ecclesia ,the word God uses .
Id like to put this up on my blog.....because the questions stir people to see what God says .
You are using the same word church all the time but describing what is all over the world which is one rabbi synagogues then comparing that to the Biblical word and practice of ecclesia .Ecclesia is a very accurate word .
Called out peer group....which as I write this it dawns upon me that the devil has done the same with the word peer ....the Peers in the House of Lords is now the very opposite from what peer group means .
Ecclesia as you know is a called out group in Greek for political administration purposes, but God uses it to get over the idea of
Gathering for His purpose....
Worshipping together and all the activities described by Paul , but with a Divine form of legislating also in the Spirit .
A declaring of the psalm 149 judgments written
A ruling as Paul says in the Spirit " Would that you were kings ." The breadth of ruling in the Spirit is called the Crown of 12 stars in Revelation 12.1.
As yet theres only beginners versions of many things manifest with baptism in the Spirit .
I keep referring to the Bible and how the OT 12 elders came into being , and the NT elder apostles came into being through Jesus .
I keep referring to conferences of 3 to 5 days where we might see some or all of the three 1 Corinthian 12 diverses in action .
Because falling into the ground like grain ....
Because becoming like little children....relearning everything Proverbs 3 .6 but this time inside the whole of life exchange at the Cross Galatians 2.20
Because of the Abide in My Word .....Truth ....freedom sequence
If people go through the New and living way of the Holy Spirit uprooting Genesis 3 independent godhood in my soul we quite literally come into the reign of God ....that is the Kingdom . That is the facing of the three control hooks the devil has in our being in the Lords Prayer ....money /supply /food / needs
Relationships in the form of not being bitter but forgiving
Pulls to do what God isn't doing....not necessarily overt sins either .
The life of God breaking out in a soul starts finding others in this freedom......thats what a bunch of conference speakers are but only for a few days .....that has to find local permanence as an ecclesia in a location. As long as persecution will allow.
The block everywhere is that different people types can't read each other . That's the 1 Corinthians 12.14-26 barrier both Jacobs sons and the apostles had to crash through .
Our human juries only last during a court procedure because people can't really stand each other Cross spectrum .
In the flesh these friction are called party spirit and schisms .
So thats what God is fixing to have all over the Earth like Acts Jerusalem church .
Its been done but its supernaturally accomplished. If we persist in the New and Living Way that's the City on a Hill , Light on a Hill effect of the Word we are believing upon .
The pastor rabbi teaching centre isn't what a local ecclesia is . Its in the meaning of the word ecclesia .
This is what Bible Houses were training us in .....but we didn't have the articulation of Romans 6 to 8 yet until Norman Grubb .
This is the soul transformation process of which the born again baptism in the Spirit process is the exchange of the spirit man in the outer courts entrance to the inner courts at con version ......now in the holy place this is a transforming of soul . We don't exchange our soul ....Its just a vessel .....so it was subject to the devil.....now its being made subject to our new born again spirit which Colossians 3.3 in Greek says is intertwined like rope ( English hidden ) with Christ .
All this plus anointing produces what the 12 apostles were living together in .
Tabernacles the Feast is a series of open plan stable relationships.
In the Spirit its the 1 John 2 father realm where by now the Holy Spirit has brought forth some Christ in their soul and psalm 84....reveals them before God in Zion ....like conference leaders . But this should all be local if we obey the whole gospel.....not the cheapskate one leader version which doesn't PROVE Kingdom.
Jacobs sons
The 12 apostles
Were an early ' proof ' of Kingdom and still are because they are the 24 before The Throne .
Tuesday, 23 September 2025
Monday, 22 September 2025
My reply to Charlie Shamp on Lake and Hicks
Post by Charlie Shamp
There is a price for glory.
Not money. Not talent. Not charisma.
But the raw currency of hunger; the kind that drives men to lock themselves away until heaven responds.
In the dead of night, an angel met a desperate man. John G. Lake, once aflame with the Azusa Street revival’s fire, now wandered streets haunted by the absence of God’s glory. The divine messenger from heaven manifested and spoke to Lake,
“The glory has left. But it will return to ANY man who pays the price of Acts 1-2.”
For nine months, Lake vanished. No sermons. No crowds. Only a bedroom, a Bible, and a broken heart. When he emerged, hell itself recoiled:
- Lepers grew new fingers as he prayed.
- Bubonic plague (then called “Black Death”) withered under his microscope.
- 625 churches erupted across South Africa in five years.
- Spokane, Washington, became America’s healthiest city after 100,000 certified healings.
How?
Nine months. Nine months. Nine months with God!
Tommy Hicks watched peers like A.A. Allen and Oral Roberts move in miracles; while he remained ordinary. Until he snapped.
First 40 days: Fasting. Screaming. “GOD, WHERE ARE YOU?”
Silence.
Second 40 days: Emaciated. Defiant. “SHOW ME YOUR GLORY OR KILL ME.”
Silence.
Third 40 days: A skeletal man bargaining with eternity.
Then:
An angel named Healing Rain crashed into his room and spoke,
“Your prayers stormed heaven’s throne. I’m assigned to you until death.”
Argentina’s dictator, Juan Perón; a skin-cancer-ridden tyrant mocked Hicks:
“Heal ME first.”
Power exploded. Perón’s face healed. Stadiums overflowed. 3 million souls saved. Cabinet members wept as they kneeled
Heaven’s waiting. Hell’s trembling.
Who will pay the price to birth REAL REVIVAL?!
________
This is Insufficient for this reason.
My reply.
________
No no no no no no no
This is why this is all one flask of oil . Matthew25
This is precisely why Masons could prevail against Lake's work so easily.
This is exactly why Elijah could be sent into a dizzy spin by Jezebel after the fire.
If this is your idea of life in God read your Bible again. This isn't Kingdom . This is but human petulance. Give me power or I die .
This has nothing whatsoever to do with the 30 years of Jesus and His 42 months with the disciples.....nothing whatsoever. Its just screaming for power and temporary supernatural moves of God .
God is obliged to answer humans . He gave us the earth . But who will actually do the will of the Lord? The calling of the importunate widow at an unearthly hour is in the storyline somewhere , but so are all the other chapters in the gospel .
John wanted to call down fire upon a village . James and John were called sons of thunder.
The Mark quartile holler and holler for mercy and helps. I know from experience thaf it would have been all Jesus could do to shut John Mark up for 42 months while the real apostolic foundation was being laid .
These guys holler in a different way but when they get their own way " helping other people " we see 150 years of Salvation Army and absolutely nothing changes. .....they go round with an ambulance picking up the fallout of the next of Evils policies but stopping absolutely nothing .
None of this emaciated yelling out for Jesus power does anything other than fill Argentinian stadiums . Jesus honours human will . He has to . He gave the earth to us but nobody is any nearer the Son of Man or ladder vision of a complete Body under One Head with angels ascending and descending with any of the consistency of Jesus life on earth . And this is the zöe we have received from heaven to build City on a Hill, a functioning Light on a Hill with lots of outstanding miracles and in less than 400 years the whole of Pagan Rome has shrivelled to nothing, yet it bestrode the then known world like one impenetrable fortress a bit like the later Iron Curtain .
Pentecost is so Insufficient as a statement. It was only ever the middle Feast. It tries its hardest to be something but Tabernacles is the Feast that has the pouring out of water and I gathering built within it structurally as well as Community and something for believers to come into .
Otherwise we get 5 week or 5 months blips of power then a few years later after Smith Wigglesworth's little tin tabernacle ex boxing hut work shrivels up the last lady hands me the key . Im talking real life here . This happened.
Our gospel is better than this nonsense .
Read the Bible .
Saturday, 20 September 2025
Chequerboard and current events
Sunday, 14 September 2025
The Willow Tree Role
Saturday, 13 September 2025
The Octopus spirit
Friday, 12 September 2025
Benevolent Rulership?
Thursday, 11 September 2025
The Bride Coming Down out of heaven
I saw the Bride coming down out of heaven
Wednesday, 10 September 2025
Complacent?
This post is today's Facebook post , but then I found this illustrative clip from Nathan Reynolds .
Thursday, 4 September 2025
Tuesday, 2 September 2025
Putting Our Hands to the Plough
Here's what's on offer in front of our eyes in the Bible
Noah proved its possible to preach righteousness in a place that's a lot darker than now . He proved that God can be trusted to give plans for the first boat , and it be trustworthy enough to protect and save 8 persons through the mother of all floods .
Im preaching to all of us yellow belly suckers that came out of Jesus Move or later in the most extra ordinary time period.
God instructed a people in God warfare which is different from fallen principality warfare .
It involves speaking to walls after circling them .
It involves standing on hillsides with your arms raised.
I involves a leading tribe called praise or Judah .
It involves things like striking the earth with arrows very ferociously or you end up in a very lacklustre outcome
It involves taking over the Boss City from below in the waterducts
Then it involves holding a plot of earth in righteousness actively believing for the portion on which our feet are stood . Instead we have got diverted by Maritime Law under Leviathan .
However for a time neither Balak nor Balaam could pull a thing off against Jews .
Jerusalem had the first archetypal church that Jesus theme Son of God built .
Graham Pulkingham , GH Warnock , Sam Fife took this half seriously but still our generation didn't perceive what Uncle Sid then later Jack Fortenberry saw . Namely what Presbyterians Brethren and Quakers had already observed.
Church is community and there is no king pastor
Jews were wrong about kings . Christians are wrong about kings . Israel already had the first vestige of the Government of God which is always on shoulders ....now Jesus heavenly and earthly Body shoulders.
12 elders .
Priests with poles .
In Jerusalem 12 apostle elders who like the rest of the born again baptised in the Spirit congregation are all functioning priests of this off the creation Melchizedek Order priesthood .
And we are kings . Royal priesthood . Kings and priests.
The Church or the congregation or ecclesia is our local Noahs Boat ....but only if we obey instructions given by Jesus , Paul and a phrase or two by the other apostles.
Im addressing Tom Stewart, me , Sylvia Pearce , Brian Coatney , somewhat John Stevens ,the people in South Chard , my exFacebook friend Ilona Smith .
God has laid a trail of victories.
Noahs Boat
The survival in the wilderness, the world's first non human king Melchizedek run people and the taking of land from giants.
God has laid a trail of Feasts which have been inaugurated in the natural and are being finished in the Spirit .
They are more like steady state heavenly Wells of living water that once opened , never shut .
Passover is not stopping .
Pentecost is not stopping .
Tabernacles once opened properly will never ever close.
Jews managed to close the first church among them and were judged severely because of that and the crucifixion before it .
So the theology of the whole world rests in the theology of Sylvia Pearce , Brian J Coatney and numerous others of us .
Does Tabernacles happen before Jesus Comes back or after a rapture.
Well everybody is too late.
Jerusalem Church already modelled every aspect of what Tabernacles is in the Spirit
12 third stage of growth, very free , very victorious apostles with outstanding miracles
Walking 1 John 1 style through Jerusalem house to house .....that's a Tabernacles gesture mixed in the Spirit with Joel 2.
People sold their goods and nobody said their possessions were their own.
Mercy and helps ministry. Evangelising and discipling ministries. Even Philips two prophetess daughters .....
All this was so good we must receive the backhanded complement of Karl Marx and Communism trying to pull off an atheist version .
So we are too late. Our theology needs to return to fact.
Thirdlevel is real. Third stage of growth is real in 1 John 2 and its 1John 1 protocols of ministry.
Its already happened. Period .
All that remains is to repoduce this conference level Christanity not for 5 days but permanent open heaven held open by the new Jesus priesthood since the Cross......but now in every location on earth .
Not pastor king synagogues no .
Psalm 123 people who only do what they see the Father doing .
We are even living at a time where Timothy Lahaye Spirit controlled temperament and now Surrounded by Idiots by thomas erikson have been written to help us through the great 1 Corinthans 12: 14- 26 hurdle preventing the dynamic function of God's Body under One living Head , Jesus .
We are living at the time of the second Ezekiel 37 prophesying that animates the Body on its two feet .
And we are living at a time when God is reviving the THREE DIVERSES to the Body described in 1 Corinthians 12,so Kathie Walters and David Walters don't have to be the only kids on the block any more.
We are living at the precise time when the unspectacular teaching of Jessie Czebotar is actually the teaching required together with Prophesy to the Breath.....come from the 4 winds .
Which is pretty spectacular as is speaking to the Ancient Doors.
I made a decision after the morgue of modern Methodism . I decided to only follow scripture and with tenacity to learn what's written there.
I don't pay attention to 2000 year-old Cathedrals
To evangelical huts
To charismatic warehouses with mega synagogue rabbis in the cheap skate half built towers of American young man stage Christanity....
I look to what Jesus built and Paul describes .
Jerusalem and Paul's churches worked .
Armenia was the last remaining unbroken church history from Paul in Asia Minor , no wonder Satan wanted a genocide there.
The true gospel foundations of Ephesians Colossians and Romans are built to last
Kingdom is first and foremost manifest ...that's what proves we are overturning Genesis 3.
Whimpering for a rapture when we haven't done anything yet.....is plainly ridiculous .
Unlike Lots wife , we must now put our hands to the plough and get moving at all levels .
Called by His Name
Context: Bible Hub announcement of the Prayer 24/7 Global Prayer Week
The 2nd Prophesying in the Valley of Dry Bones
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