One by One!
"ONE by ONE we are making Christ Jesus Love,Unity and Equality A Reality In The Body Of Our Lord Jesus Christ!!"
"One of the most loving blessings of being in fellowship and partnership with Apostle James Winfree & Team Ministries is that the results of the choices we make together now will echo and make changes now and throughout time and eternity!!"
" Stop Hating Me Because We are Family"
By Apostle James R Winfree Sr,
So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, neither male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus (Galatians 3:26-28 This is in your Bible.
We all like people who are like us.
I guess that's a pretty obvious statement, and I doubt that I'm all that unusual in liking people who are like me. There's something in us, I guess, that draws us to people who share our experiences, perspectives, and priorities. We have an affinity with people who look like us, talk like us, dress like us, and live like us. Say what you like about appreciating diversity; my guess is that your default reaction upon walking into a room filled with people of various ethnicity's, races, and socioeconomic standing would be to find the people who are most like you. They wouldn't be hard to find, either, since they'd probably be standing together in a group.
It struck me recently that when Paul wants to speak of the Unity of the Church, he doesn't speak of it in terms of surrender. He doesn't say that the Church should surrender the things that make us different. He doesn't say the church should be a melting pot where differences of culture, language, race, gender, and economic reality are lost or forgotten or ignored. He says, instead, that we are to take a new reality into account as well: as different as we may be, we are alike in One fundamental way.
This Ministry of Christ Love, Unity, Equality Is A Celebration Of All God's Blessed Children In Christ Jesus!God has called us to be His children in Jesus Christ, and the things that make us different are to be understood and interpreted now in terms of the One Thing that makes us alike. As different as we are, we are "all One in Christ Jesus." We share in God's promises, and in receiving His grace and mercy, love, unity and God given equality and in trying to live our lives to His Glory. So we begin to treat each other in a new way, befitting the new relationship of brothers and sisters that we have with anyone who calls God their Father, follows Jesus as Lord, and lives in communion with the Holy Spirit.
More often, what we do is to retreat into relatively homogenized Churches where we can make all the right noises about the wonderful Diversity of the Kingdom of God without ever having to get our hands dirty in all that messy diversity. It lets us sound enlightened, as we talk about our "brothers and sisters" in that black church across town or white church down the street or Latino church that meets right in our own buildings, but has the virtue of not demanding that we actually get to know any of those brothers and sisters — much less actually share in their lives.
Yes We are as, God's children from all over the World are meeting together online, by phone, by email, post mail, the word of mouth all or any means, We are net-working in bringing all of God's loving dear children together in Celebration of Christ amazing, awesome love, unity, equality a chance for us to get out of those homogenized dead very cold so- called church buildings and be with all of Christ people, Believers, Christians, Saints sisters and brothers in Christ — who are different from us. We weren't able to ignore the differences, because they were there on display. Different languages. Differently pigmented skin, and the different assumptions and experiences that those different pigments almost always carry with them. Different worship styles and musical tastes. Different politics. Differences in theology, and living culture, and practice.
But it wasn't just about the differences. It was more about what we share, what we have in common — or better, it was about Who has us common. It was about Jesus, and I promise you that when you recognize in people who are different from you in some seemingly significant way the same experience of the gospel that you had, you'll be amazed at the breadth, color, and vitality of God's kingdom.
This Apostle James & Betty Winfree & Team Ministry and others like it the beginning and not an end a jumping-off place. Hopefully it will be a catalyst for healing past wrongs and creating new realities. It is a start in helping us to live out what we claim to believe, but it is a start.
So find a way to start bringing God's people together in every area here in America and around the World Celebration! Discover how much you love people who aren't like you. And discover how much they really are like you.
After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and in front of the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands. And they cried out in a loud voice: "Salvation belongs to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb" (Revelation 7:9-10).
If you would like to talk more about finding God's Love, Unity and Equality in Christ Jesus or would like me to pray for you, please contact me at ApostleJWinfree1@aol.com Or jawin05@sbcglobal.net Or call me @ this number 832-618-3700 It is our prayer that Christ Jesus Love, Unity, Equality will rise in your heart and with confidence you will posses the purpose and destiny that Daddy has ordained for you and to all Believers, Christians, Saints.Remember that life is only in Christ Jesus our Savior and Lord, So Feel free to study The Lords Website at http://www.freewebs.com/winfreeministries or Write us at ApostleJWinfree1@aol.com/ jawin05@sbcglobal.net Our staff numbers are Mother Bullington at 804-318-6831/ / Ms. Melanie Wade at 612-824-0002/ Apostle James R Winfree Sr, at 832-618-3700 Or you can Write us by Post Mail @ P.O.BOX 5293 HOUSTON, TEXAS 77262-5293We remain True and Faithful to this Vision to all of God's People, Believers. Christians, SaintsYours in Christ Jesus Blessed Kingdom, The Lord's Team
"One of the most loving blessings of being in fellowship and partnership with Apostle James Winfree & Team Ministries is that the results of the choices we make together now will echo and make changes now and throughout time and eternity!!"
" Stop Hating Me Because We are Family"
By Apostle James R Winfree Sr,
So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Gentile, neither slave nor free, neither male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus (Galatians 3:26-28 This is in your Bible.
We all like people who are like us.
I guess that's a pretty obvious statement, and I doubt that I'm all that unusual in liking people who are like me. There's something in us, I guess, that draws us to people who share our experiences, perspectives, and priorities. We have an affinity with people who look like us, talk like us, dress like us, and live like us. Say what you like about appreciating diversity; my guess is that your default reaction upon walking into a room filled with people of various ethnicity's, races, and socioeconomic standing would be to find the people who are most like you. They wouldn't be hard to find, either, since they'd probably be standing together in a group.
It struck me recently that when Paul wants to speak of the Unity of the Church, he doesn't speak of it in terms of surrender. He doesn't say that the Church should surrender the things that make us different. He doesn't say the church should be a melting pot where differences of culture, language, race, gender, and economic reality are lost or forgotten or ignored. He says, instead, that we are to take a new reality into account as well: as different as we may be, we are alike in One fundamental way.
This Ministry of Christ Love, Unity, Equality Is A Celebration Of All God's Blessed Children In Christ Jesus!God has called us to be His children in Jesus Christ, and the things that make us different are to be understood and interpreted now in terms of the One Thing that makes us alike. As different as we are, we are "all One in Christ Jesus." We share in God's promises, and in receiving His grace and mercy, love, unity and God given equality and in trying to live our lives to His Glory. So we begin to treat each other in a new way, befitting the new relationship of brothers and sisters that we have with anyone who calls God their Father, follows Jesus as Lord, and lives in communion with the Holy Spirit.
More often, what we do is to retreat into relatively homogenized Churches where we can make all the right noises about the wonderful Diversity of the Kingdom of God without ever having to get our hands dirty in all that messy diversity. It lets us sound enlightened, as we talk about our "brothers and sisters" in that black church across town or white church down the street or Latino church that meets right in our own buildings, but has the virtue of not demanding that we actually get to know any of those brothers and sisters — much less actually share in their lives.
Yes We are as, God's children from all over the World are meeting together online, by phone, by email, post mail, the word of mouth all or any means, We are net-working in bringing all of God's loving dear children together in Celebration of Christ amazing, awesome love, unity, equality a chance for us to get out of those homogenized dead very cold so- called church buildings and be with all of Christ people, Believers, Christians, Saints sisters and brothers in Christ — who are different from us. We weren't able to ignore the differences, because they were there on display. Different languages. Differently pigmented skin, and the different assumptions and experiences that those different pigments almost always carry with them. Different worship styles and musical tastes. Different politics. Differences in theology, and living culture, and practice.
But it wasn't just about the differences. It was more about what we share, what we have in common — or better, it was about Who has us common. It was about Jesus, and I promise you that when you recognize in people who are different from you in some seemingly significant way the same experience of the gospel that you had, you'll be amazed at the breadth, color, and vitality of God's kingdom.
This Apostle James & Betty Winfree & Team Ministry and others like it the beginning and not an end a jumping-off place. Hopefully it will be a catalyst for healing past wrongs and creating new realities. It is a start in helping us to live out what we claim to believe, but it is a start.
So find a way to start bringing God's people together in every area here in America and around the World Celebration! Discover how much you love people who aren't like you. And discover how much they really are like you.
After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and in front of the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands. And they cried out in a loud voice: "Salvation belongs to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb" (Revelation 7:9-10).
If you would like to talk more about finding God's Love, Unity and Equality in Christ Jesus or would like me to pray for you, please contact me at ApostleJWinfree1@aol.com Or jawin05@sbcglobal.net Or call me @ this number 832-618-3700 It is our prayer that Christ Jesus Love, Unity, Equality will rise in your heart and with confidence you will posses the purpose and destiny that Daddy has ordained for you and to all Believers, Christians, Saints.Remember that life is only in Christ Jesus our Savior and Lord, So Feel free to study The Lords Website at http://www.freewebs.com/winfreeministries or Write us at ApostleJWinfree1@aol.com/ jawin05@sbcglobal.net Our staff numbers are Mother Bullington at 804-318-6831/ / Ms. Melanie Wade at 612-824-0002/ Apostle James R Winfree Sr, at 832-618-3700 Or you can Write us by Post Mail @ P.O.BOX 5293 HOUSTON, TEXAS 77262-5293We remain True and Faithful to this Vision to all of God's People, Believers. Christians, SaintsYours in Christ Jesus Blessed Kingdom, The Lord's Team
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