I'm Not Moses

There is a sharp division between my ministry and teaching versus that of mainstream Western Christianity, but I’m not at war with it.
I’ve abandoned the practice of hanging around their organizations and meeting places. Naturally, quite a few are simply not comfortable for me in the first place. I am a mere human. Others have made it clear I can’t speak my beliefs on their property. By no means would I actively encourage anyone to follow my example. Rather, I warn those who have an affinity for my teaching that they are likely to experience something similar if they dare to open their mouths. A basic principle I follow is that no one should have to put up with me if I make them uncomfortable. There are times and places where physical proximity is unavoidable, but I’m unwilling to interfere with the ministries of others.
I can’t confine God to my experience. Still, I can’t offer more than that; but you aren’t me, and my God is too big for any sort of confinement. I openly teach no human capacity can encompass merely what He has chosen to reveal to all mankind. I also teach the crux of our dealings with God, the higher objective to which His revelation points, takes place far above the ability of the human mind in the first place. How can we pretend to define the limits of those things we can’t even discuss? Nothing in my work should confine your thinking and your expectations about your personal dealings with God.
Paradoxically, this is precisely what chokes those who most stoutly defend Western Christianity in all its forms and flavors. There are so many formalized sectarian structures simply because they insist it all has to fall to some degree within parameters of human management. I’m less concerned about rituals and organizational management than I am about the theology management. Almost all efforts at Systematic Theology are inherently wrong for the simple reason they try to build a manageable system. It becomes a means of confining people, keeping them from serving God.
When I make pronouncements about things, I never pretend what I offer constrains you. I’m only sharing what I experience. If it fits, if it calls to you, then use it. Ask questions; explore it in your own way. If it does not fit, you can safely ignore me and I won’t hound you about it. But if you do come to me, you will only get what I have. Yes, I am utterly convinced that what I say applies universally, but I also freely admit you don’t have to buy it. Further, the only way I’ll push you away is if you actively interfere with the driving imperatives of my soul.
Jehovah offered a single example of a nation under a specific covenant. It didn’t work, not because God failed, but because mankind cannot find redemption in that path. You can imagine all sorts of criticisms you might offer God for His design and implementation, but that’s not your place. As Creator and Master of all things, we have to deal with Him as He is. So the idea of all working together in the flesh is always a pipe dream. Yes, we could share a community of common faith in sufficient measure to form a congregation, but there are distinct limits because we remain fallen at our best. We aren’t supposed to take things so seriously as to imagine God will refuse to deal with someone who is different from us. We don’t have to let them hang around if it causes too much trouble, but we don’t restrain the hands of God. Everything is fluid here because of the vast mismatch between flesh and Spirit.
One thing which burns in my heart right now is the utter certainty God is very unhappy with Western Christianity in certain areas. But every time someone tries to tell the churches, they always stir up their emotions and intellect, and insist that’s how God works. They engage in reforms, rather like rearranging deck chairs on the sinking ship. Will there ever be a way to break that spell? Well, in human terms, we see Jesus didn’t succeed too well against the same spell gripping the religious leaders of His people. No, Jesus didn’t say much about Hellenism or Aristotle because those weren’t common terms of discussion in His day. However, it doesn’t take a genius to see those things were a big problem for Him. Unfortunately, the best scholarship regarding the debate between Western and ANE epistemology are folks outside the churches, for the most part. You just about have to step outside Christian scholarship to see it clearly, and that’s very sad. It’s sad because it gives the theologians an excuse to dismiss the whole question. How often can you bump into hierarchical authority or “propositional truth” before you get tired and sore?
In the end, I have to take up my own cross and let my Father handle the rest. All I can do is tell the folks who might be willing to lend an ear. It’s not up to me to convince people. Humans can reason and even manipulate each other, but a genuine transformation on the spiritual level where things really matter is far beyond me. That’s the whole point. For me, it seems the churches have driven off some of ripest spiritual harvest because they aren’t working on that level in the first place. I’m praying that the Lord can find workers acquainted with the Spirit Realm so we can get to the real harvest. I’m trying to open the doors of awareness to things our civilization would rather exclude, which is where God happens to operate.
I’m not the enemy of the churches, but they seem too willing to be mine.