The Lamb will be your Shepherd. Many people do not understand what I am doing. I am trying to create a culture of artists. We are creating a virtual artist colony with shared values and commitments. And so we come back to some core ideas again and again. Listen to the Lord and do what he tells you. Fear not God can be trusted. Your inner life determines your creative output. Jesus Christ came not to start a religion but rather to establish his Kingdom. Kingdoms have culture, and the culture of the Kingdom of Jesus begins with the Shepherd and his voice. A lot of the components of our Belonging House culture run counter to cultural trends in the church. There is an old adage that says the leaders of the last revival kill the leaders of the next one. And it is not surprising that more and more often I have tensions with folks from the independent charismatic stream who came out of the movements around the Toronto Blessing. We are doing a new thing. The Kingdom is always advancing, never retreating. Throughout the fifty days of Easter, the readings first look back to the Resurrection of Jesus from the dead. And then we transition from looking back to the Passover of the Lord to the Ascension of Jesus, and the day of Pentecost. We are now halfway between Easter and the Ascension. And this transition from the earliest time has been marked by readings from John 10. And so, this is called Good Shepherd Sunday. And if you do a simple search online, you will discover that the earliest depictions of Jesus are all
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The Lamb will be your Shepherd. Many people do not understand what I am doing. I am trying to create a culture of artists. We are creating a virtual artist colony with shared values and commitments. And so we come back to some core ideas again and again. Listen to the Lord and do what he tells you. Fear not God can be trusted. Your inner life determines your creative output. Jesus Christ came not to start a religion but rather to establish his Kingdom. Kingdoms have culture, and the culture of the Kingdom of Jesus begins with the Shepherd and his voice. A lot of the components of our Belonging House culture run counter to cultural trends in the church. There is an old adage that says the leaders of the last revival kill the leaders of the next one. And it is not surprising that more and more often I have tensions with folks from the independent charismatic stream who came out of the movements around the Toronto Blessing. We are doing a new thing. The Kingdom is always advancing, never retreating. Throughout the fifty days of Easter, the readings first look back to the Resurrection of Jesus from the dead. And then we transition from looking back to the Passover of the Lord to the Ascension of Jesus, and the day of Pentecost. We are now halfway between Easter and the Ascension. And this transition from the earliest time has been marked by readings from John 10. And so, this is called Good Shepherd Sunday. And if you do a simple search online, you will discover that the earliest depictions of Jesus are all