The process of Attachment

Hey Admin, first let me say, thank you for the wonderful journey of preparation these past few weeks via the Blog.  I really believe that we (Admin) experienced DJ's first "secret" this past weekend.  "ATTACHMENT TO THE LARGER NARRATIVE!!"  As I debriefed the Barnabas training weekend, I can honestly say that it looked, felt, and sounded different than those of the past.  I believe that my (our) attachment to the Land Called Gospel has changed my (our) world view in such a way that material that is second nature for me (training weekends), took on a whole new life!  Material that has been "attached" to Sonshine Ministries and the Land Called Houseboats, leaped of the page with new life in light of it's attachment to the greater narrative.

In the land Called Gospel, the weekend began with, "There is a Lion outside; I shall be slain in the streets!"

In the Land Called Gospel, the weekend was held together with, "If it doesn't break your heart it isn't Love, if it doesn't break your heart it's not enough, It's when your breaking down, when your insides are coming out, that's when you find out what your heart is made of!"

In the Land Called Gospel, the weekend ended with attachment to the greater narrative, "LOYALTY / COMMITMENT TO CHRIST - When you admit that faith in God through Jesus Christ is the most precious valuable gift you’ve been given, you embrace the erosion of external attributes for you understand that erosion exposes the source of your faith (Or what Land you citizenize).  When what is seen is wasted away, only what is unseen remains (The true land of the Gospel).  How and when God will expose the source of your faith is life’s most suspenseful and necessary mystery?  When the testing moments come, His shaking reveals the unshakable.  His fire exposes the unquenchable.  His cross beckons us at our core to shatter all trust in what is seen and to confess, “To live is Christ and to die is gain.”  Walking through Calvary with Jesus anchors your identity and strength in Him.  Through Calvary, your credibility and confidence expresses Christ’s divine royalty.  Frustrations, condescension, body aches, broken hearts, and disappointment become light and momentary as they are consumed by His eternal glory.  Christ is eager to build into you His eternal rewards.  Your life’s journey is a constant work on Christ’s part to help you identify the source of your faith and direct it to Him (And to stamp your passport (cross) into the Land called Gospel). 

I look forward to this weekend to see, feel, and hear afresh the Lands national anthem played out through the lives of it's citizens.  If you have forgotten the words, let me remind you....

PHILIPPIANS 2:1-11
Is there any encouragement from belonging to Christ? Any comfort from his love? Any fellowship together in the Spirit? Are your hearts tender and sympathetic? Then make me truly happy by agreeing wholeheartedly with each other, loving one another, and working together with one heart and purpose. Don't be selfish; don't live to make a good impression on others. Be humble, thinking of others as better than yourself. Don't think only about your own affairs, but be interested in others, too, and what they are doing. Your attitude should be the same that Christ Jesus had. Though he was God, he did not demand and cling to his rights as God. He made himself nothing; he took the humble position of a slave and appeared in human form. And in human form he obediently humbled himself even further by dying a criminal's death on a cross. Because of this, God raised him up to the heights of heaven and gave him a name that is above every other name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.