I found myself standing with the Lord in the evening on a hillside, overlooking a vast conclave of camps. I see one light up like the sun as arms reach out and capture the light, pulling it inside with a shout, “We’ve got Jesus.” Then it all goes dark as the evening stillness breathes out over the land. As we stand, I turn to my God, seeing his gentle gaze and a warm welcoming smile, then I notice the twinkling in his eyes. So I write this.

This Palm Sunday Here In Pensacola

Allen Chapel AME Church is joining with First Methodist Church of Pensacola this Palm Sunday, waving palms, shouting Hosannas, singing, and celebrating our Lord Jesus in downtown Pensacola.

What would it take for our Churches to celebrate the coming of Jesus around the downtown quad in unity on Palm Sunday? Fifteen minutes in a declaration that Christ is King, that Jesus is Lord?

Maybe it’s time to wake-up to who we as a Church really are in Christ, One.

The time for sleep is over as the morning dawns.

The Three Manifestations of The Church

I’m grateful for the various expressions of the Church. As iron sharpens iron, we need each other’s embodied revelation of God to know who we really are as the Body of Christ.

I thank God for the Protestants and the Evangelicals who have given us ways to express the revival of coming to Jesus, and of being born again.

I thank God for the Pentecostals and the Charismatics who have given us ways to express the renewal of being filled with the Holy Spirit, and the gifts and callings of God.

I thank God for the Catholics and the Orthodox who have given us ways to express the restoration co-creating with Our Father through spiritual practices that develop the character and bring the presence of God into our everyday common life.

Manifesting The Eternal Reality of God

Again, as churches, we need each other’s embodied revelation of God to know who we really are as the Body of Christ on earth…not our theologies, not our beliefs, but How God is transforming us day by day, and how that transformation is expressing abundant life in our lives.

All spiritual life in Christ is expressing itself inside out from the core of our beings through revival, renewal, and restoration.

God is calling us to dance together to manifest the whole body of Christ, in bringing heaven on earth as Jesus prayed.

Separately, we are out of balance and dysfunctional, but together, we mirror the Trinity as One. And it’s all grace. and It’s all to God’s Glory made manifest.

Yes, the foolishness of the love of God will always confound the wisdom of men. Such is the radical grace of God that makes us whole, one body, and one Church in Christ alone.

As the day is dawning, may we all wake-up and realize who we really are together in Christ.