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Knowing Him Together ministry is dedicated to "Knowing Him," and representing, as best we know how, what He thinks about His Church, truth, and the right ways of approaching God.

It's not a formal or professional ministry any longer...just a place to share the things we're learning in our own spiritual journey.  Somehow a professional clergy doesn't strike me as being Jesus' goal for His Church leaders, and certainly in my life it was not a healthy thing.  For me it seemed to generate religious excesses, hypocrisy, and addictions...thankfully it doesn't seem to so negatively affect all Church leadership. 

Let's talk a little about what He thinks about "His Church."  When you think about it, Church history is a story of what man has done with Jesus' Church.  In many cases it represents significant departures from what appears to be His original intent.  

It has always seemed to me such a strange thing that Jesus gave His life to provide the opportunity for mankind to know God and the vehicle of expressing God (The Church) for that to take place, and instead of followers of Christ honoring the fact that the Church is "His Church," all too often we have made it more about us, religion, and marketing schemes than about Him. 

When we carefully study what Jesus taught and lived regarding the Church and what He inspired His apostles to teach and live regarding the Church, there seems to be a huge disconnect from His original intent and what we see today.  

When one carefully studies the New Testament there is no mention that the Church would be patterned off of any earthly business model, yet the Church has become big business.  There is no reference to a Pope, or Senior Pastor, or a salaried staff, or church memberships, church buildings, pews, stained glass, pulpits, being a vehicle of marketing the kingdom, or most of what we have come to know Church as, yet the morphing process from then to now is nothing short of amazing.  There is nearly no real connection between the Church Jesus and His apostles envisioned and what Church has become.  How can this be?

Let's be clear about something here...  I'm not suggesting Jesus is completely detached from the modern Church.  Certainly not!  He is far too gracious and practical for that.  You will find Him in just about every flavor of Church expression on earth.  It seems that wherever His name is mentioned He is there to reveal Himself to the seeking heart.  Praise God this is true, or we'd all be in big trouble.  BUT, to say that He reveals Himself in just about every Church expression and compare that to His desire for His Church, and there we have a huge disconnect.  Just because He graciously tolerates where His Church is does not necessarily means He approves of it.

I'm not saying we are on some grand performance oriented relationship with God either.  In other words, our acceptance with Him is clearly not based on whether we do Church right or not.  He stands at the side of His bride no matter how out of touch she becomes with His original intent for Church, but having said that, it is time we rethink what He desires for His Church, rather than continue developing a religious system that He merely tolerates.

This website is dedicated to revealing His original intents and to calling "His Church" back to His revealed approach to being His Church.  Sure we can continue in the current approaches, and He'll work with us in them, but what would happen to the world if the Church said "Enough!!!" it is time we returned to gathering according to what He revealed.  It is time we cast off religious systems, patterns, and ways, and let the Church be about Jesus again.  It is time for Senior pastors to transition their Churches away from being "their" Churches and back to being "His Church," away from titles, traditional salaries, positions, hierarchical authority, control, and manmade systems of religion, and back to a place of simplicity where we turn Jesus' Church back to Him and wait on Him to lead us.

I'm not sayig there is no place for human leadership, but careful reading of the New Testament will reveal that the leadership He envisioned is radically different that what has developed over the last 2000+ years.  We have much to rethink regarding how leadership should look in the body of Christ.  

Most of the world turns a blind eye and deaf ear to Church, less  because of true rejection of God, and more because of the hypocrisy, arrogance, and foolishness they see represented in the Church.  Ultimately our re-aligning the Church with Jesus' pattern doesn't have as much to do with drawing the world towards the Church, but far more towards honoring the Lord again, but certainly one of the byproducts will be that the world will be brought directly before the living God, without excuse for rejecting Him, when the Church ceases to give them an excuse to reject Him.

Your heart knows that the modern expressions of His Church have departed from His original intent.  Each Sunday you gather in state approved buildings, under the direct headship of a Senior Pastor, and compressed into some artificial program, you know there are places within you that sit there in your pew and wrestle with how "this just cannot be God..."

So, what do you do?  You wait on God for clear direction.  If He calls you to remain where you are then you will have no peace about leaving.  If He calls you to leave your current Church environment then you will have no peace about remaining.  Your life is not your own.  You and I have been bought by the precious blood of Christ.  The result needs to be that we wait on God for His guidance in all things.  Don't be afraid of making a mistake if you honestly seek Him about these things.  He has untold numbers of ways to reach and convince you of His will for your life.  He doesn't require of you that you act rashly or impetuously.  He will lead you!

We are praying for awakenings to take place across the earth.  We are seeing and hearing of it happening.  May God grant us the grace to boldly go where we have seen few others go...

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