Dec

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Article by Tabitha | Filed Under Articles, Life

There is a reminder from God that He created me to become a Christian writer and I agree that when I try to incorporate other religious beliefs and experiences I falter.

I keep asking myself and God : “Why then did I have so many varied, deep experiences and encounters with other religions, belief systems and ways of life?” My manuscript “Travelling into unknown places” was an attempt to answer that question for myself and prevent others from straying too far from The Path and faltering.

I have a lot of difficulty remaining loyal to the Christian faith. I love Lord Jesus with all my heart, mind and strength and have grown a great deal in my relationship with him because of the work I do to serve churches and Christian charities. I have a deep reverence for everything Father God created and want to learn to love my neighbour as myself. But I have a problem with The Church as an institution and a movement. I know the hyprocrites, false prophets and people who are out to make money “selling Jesus” have been deceived and are controlled by the devil. I also know that there are dangerous secular forces steering the world towards One World Government and these forces are eroding the gospel message. But I also think a lot of Christians everywhere, from all denominations, have completely missed the point of what Lord Jesus came to earth to teach.

My mentor, a minister of the Lord named Tom Scarella who is based in Florida, once said:

“A lot of what happens in the Body of Christ is the result of sheer stupidity”.

I have seen this for myself in the two years I spent working with different churches and organisations. So my mission is to “set the record straight.” I felt that I could draw on my personal experiences, background and knowledge before coming to Christ to accomplish this mission. A lot of people, especially those who have trouble understanding complicated principles and concepts, relate a lot better to a simple, personal story that illustrates biblical principles than to dry rhetoric. I am above all a story-teller. The book that had the most impact on me in my whole life was ‘Women who run with the wolves”, Clarissa Pinkola-Estes. I needed to confront the “wild” places within me before the stories I need to tell could be re-awakened from deep within my consciousness. A lot of my writing of the Mystic Consciousness type is “running with the wolves”.

Yes, I am a revolutionary but I firmly beleive in a peaceful revolution that begins as a personal re-invention within and then gently inspires others in our midst to reach for true freedom in whatever way serves their mission. When Michael Christ and I became friends, it was because we share Pablo Coehlo’s vision of “assembling the warriors of light”. If you haven’t read “The Warrior of Light” yet, please give yourself a Christmas gift by getting it. You can read sample chapter on Pablo Coehlo’s blog(just google Pablo Coehlo blog- I’ve forgotten the Url). If I can accomplish that kind of peaceful inner revolution in my own life, I’ll have done what Father God sent me to earth to do.

Where my relationship with Jesus Christ, my writing and my sense of self fit into all this, I have yet to discover.Last year when I was praying about it I had a vision of Lord Jesus giving me a huge package wrapped in many layers of paper. I began unwrapping the package but with every layer of paper I had to pause and read the instructions from the Bible written on the back. I see myself as translating biblical principles and teachings into “packaging” that people of other faiths can understand. This is called “seeker-sensitive” Christianity and I know it is very dangerous. But The Church is now at war with every other religion, philosophy, doctrine and spiritual practice and this war is costing it the wealth that should be used for Kingdom-building, church members and credibility.

This picture of The Church is definitely not me! It was taken at my great uncle’s funeral and while I honour him for being a wonderful, godly man, none of these people who showed up to remember his life have ever done anything to impact the lives of others. Whenever I receive critiques of my writing to the effect that I am “faltering” in my Christian faith, I think about “the longest funeral in living memory” and how not a word of what was said was remembered.

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