the Gospel of Jesus Christ

The essentials of the Gospel of Jesus Christ remain the same:
“That Jesus is the Son of God,
That He was born of a virgin,
That He led a sinless life,
That He died an atoning death,
That he was buried and that he rose physically the third day,
And that He is coming back again.”
Derek Prince, “Where are we in Biblical Prophecy”.

primary foundations

primary foundations

I was committed to four Christian principles that took to my heart when I first became a Christian:

The truth shall set you free [John 8:31-38]
Discernment in the Spirit [Romans 12:2, 1 Cor 2:14-15, 12:10]
The fruits of the Spirit [Galatians 5:22-23, Matthew 7:15-20]
The voice (knowing) of the Lord [John10:11-18]

These are principles a number of Christians live as primary and with clarity. We gladly have one Holy Spirit we receive from Christ’s commission, being God’s will that we be born of Spirit. [John 1:10-13, 3:3-8]

Our choice is as per the parable of the good seed. [Matthew 13:3-9]

a christian perspective

a christian perspective

Without recognising primary foundations, imagination and theories replace the Gospel, for example, mythology.

If someone persuades away from these Christian truths, our inner person knows by what we call witness of the Holy Spirit or discernment. This is an inner response rather than ideology, theology, apologetics, psychology, or philosophy. Spiritual focus may conflict even severely with human nature.

The question then is, what is Christian truth? This is a constant activity around us.

As a person behaves and speaks, this comes from somewhere. The source of this is at times critical – was it from wrong teaching, anger, control, hidden agenda, heritage? Why would there be a good outcome? Our difficulty is in accepting ruined outcomes when we look at the object rather than the source. Letting go can be as important as holding on. We should but are not taught to let go of what continually weighs down in bondage or what conflicts with Christ’s peace. If we are learning to discern in the Spirit of our God we shall gain insights into various situations. This is hindered by many factors.

These complexities mean that content and actions occur outside the Gospel from men’s diverse approaches. To seemingly overcome the problem, some take the bible scriptures as a literal interpretation so we do not face conflicts, or engage with God. Two people can say different things on the same bible verses or apart from bible verses, so who is right? One Christian apologist’s discipline led him to say anyone who does not observe the Sabbath goes to hell. One group of people say the Earth was created before the sun. Another says theirs is the only true Church. These are serious conditions. But even so, there are more dire non-Christian teachings such as non-existence. This website will have differences to various singular beliefs about Christianity. We have to do this, because without contrast people believe what they say is the only right.

Reading the bible’s New Testament scriptures, Jesus surprises us. For example, he said to let the crowds eat as much as they wanted. Those who miss what Jesus was doing may demand of people to do as they say because in reality there is no neutral position. This causes faction or even brain washing.

My experience is that people are not aware of what they are doing when they consistently position themselves to become harder and colder. The public may look at other attributes they like, such as authority, education, or position, but authority without service and love is missing the fruits of the Holy Spirit. In fact, there is serious misunderstanding of the ultimate display in Christ as manhood. When we compare to Christ, we begin to see the extent of degradation among men. Christ’s manhood showed service, obedience, humility, facing terrible things before him, and sacrifice. What leader today wants to wash my feet? They cannot do this.

A second problem I see over the years is that we tend to look up to God, to the heavens to interpret what God says, what we tell one another we must be, but the viewpoint is rare to receive revelation on how God looks down on man. Few find that. When they do, all sorts of things change perspective, not just by one degree. We may by default build from base up, but my experience is that some constructs are from higher down. This means a conscious decision to flip a viewpoint based on our value of a higher priority. One of mankind’s greatest failures is the dangerous pursuit of a pure human race, sacrificing others by justification for what they see as that value, and is hence a false value.

Sometimes change is so difficult, challenging life-long beliefs and subsequent investments, one may seek alternatives to believing in God. We do not downplay inner crisis at all, however, some ordinary people have been brave, ending up in a better place. I repeatedly find that people in crisis are offered dead ends, which signals the need to overcome the implanted fears they generate. There are always directions and answers in Christ.

This website is not trying to make decisions for you or insist on content being right for you. A genuine search for God can happen with simple steps, without risk, such as asking God to be in your day, or to read some bible verses during the week – anything that is a decision to turn one degree towards God as the alternative to no change is a huge and “well done” change. Let the Angels see.

more about this website

The content expressed here focuses on people around us and the individual. Experience in global influence is a whole other focus with other complexities. Context is always important.

Health and balance in the Church concern some Church leaders in terms of future direction. Do we have multiple denominations, races, cultures in the Church for better health, or hone in on one culture? How is our thinking determined unknowingly by post modernism, and so on.

We therefore not only benefit but perhaps need the talents of a whole range of people around us.

I don’t think we benefit as well in isolation than in public – a life of video communications as opposed to contact with each other, but how that plays out is what other people are currently learning.

Over the years, my Christian friends, my spiritual family, have encouraged this writing. The presentations here have a history, a past, which the reader should be aware comes from that past, so that the reader may consider their own views and balance.

While the authored content is known to various people, we do not make authorship public due to behaviour on the internet, need for privacy, and considering that the work is not published under a larger organisation. When parts of this content were previously published under an Australian trust entity, the trust still wished privacy to be kept.

Our website domain name and content has changed or developed since 2012. In late 2023 to mid-2024 we noticed our sitemaps were not longer showing on the Internet and we had no visitors. Our configurations were correctly in place. We then found a website domain name almost identical to ours excepting by one letter, which has been without any website content since 2023. We therefore rebuilt our site with a previously held domain name – jesusgloria.com.

the avocado seed

I use the outline of the Avocado seed for my website logo, (with some artistic license). It actually has two halves. I think of the gospel as two halves. One is salvation and redemption, the other is healing. The two must go together. Jesus was very strong on this, as in Luke chapter 10.

How can we separate the two halves and expect things to be normal? Something will be amiss.

If an Avocado seed dries out too many years, it becomes as hard as a rock. The two halves split. The seed is dead, a second time.

If we throw away the wholeness of the Gospel, we are effectively saying we know better, we can manage our salvation. Something in us still wants a form of separation from God. Depending on what that form is, God can see how to work with us, or if the nature of that problem continues to remove our “saltiness”. As Jesus said, how can you restore saltiness? Be gentle with yourself, as in not breaking the reed that bends in the wind.

Can I be blunt? Man has all sorts of ways to screw around with your person. Jesus always comes through with answers that like water, calm the soul. My view is that everything within us goes against forcefully breaking that “avocado seed” in half. God knows how to work with you.

This is why an emphasis on this website is about awareness. For example, you grow up with interference from parents, so you match that with equal force, or even violence in certain situations. I mean, if someone attacks your dwelling and privacy, you respond! Awareness would notice this response and ask, is it okay? Having it does not mean it is. You then have the choice to look at possibly changing. At a deeper level, if violence is in your being, no matter how justified from past circumstances, it is one of the most dangerous things that could be in your life – it is that serious. If you are not aware of this, how can you ever identify it, let alone adddress it before God? And that is the great failure.

People come into personal situations with huge issues, or people move into positions of power with such issues. That is why I say you do not know where someone is coming from. If someone grew up mistreating people, thinking they are superior, they are in the boy’s club, all that stuff, there will be consequence.

The Apostle Paul advises us to work out our own faith. It is not someone else’s. We are the ones learning stewardship. I can guarantee there will be shocking things exposed at various times in our lives and if not now, later. You will know if something grinds against the Holy Spirit. You will know what sin is, what is holy, what is not good and beneficial and what is good. This is real, and part of your personal position and growth in Christ as one who belongs to Him. This does not negate all the issues we face, but it is central.