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Has anyone ever told you: יהוה (Yahweh) God loves you and has a great plan for your life?
Has anyone ever told you: יהוה (Yahweh) God loves you and has a great plan for your life?
The three-fold mission:
Now a clear mandated passion I have is to heal divisions in the Church assemblies, especially between Catholic, Protestant and Jewish peoples. My dream is a passionately unified assembly where the first question we ask when meeting a believer is, “Tell me why you love Jesus? instead of, “What church denomination are you a part of?”
The enemy of our glorious zoe-life for almost 2 millenia now has got us to focus on the minutiae of our faith in Jesus, instead of the Golden Rule, which all The Torah-Law and The Prophetic writings are built upon, just as Jesus said;
“Love יהוה YAHWEH, your God with all your heart, soul and mind and love your neighbour as yourself.”
While it’s true that we will have disagreements on certain aspects of our worship, it’s important to act from love and patience first and foremost. When meeting someone new and you clearly see that they love Jesus, then you can know confidently you are talking to a true believer. Your spirit connected to His Spirit may detect something off (part of us all having to renew our minds) but that is simply an opportunity to pray and store up rewards for the coming New Age of Jesus and the Kingdom of יהוה YAHWEH.
This believer you meet may not dress like you, talk like you or even act the exact same way you do, yet this is all part of the mystery of our God. How the All Powerful One who personally relates to each of His own is faithful to complete the work He started in them and even reward you for joining Him in completing it through your prayers. This divine work will make us and them with each passing day, more and more like His Son, Jesus! Amen.
However, all this to say that we must still have firm foundations to build upon, which are the words of The Word Himself which have been summarised in a unifying belief statement.
This work of a single unifying belief statement has already been compiled by holy ones (saints) before us. The Nicene Creed forms our own theological foundations here at Paul’s Handkerchief Ministries and I’m convinced that you reading all the way down this page, as a lover of Jesus, will wholeheartedly agree.
We believe in one God,
the Father almighty,
maker of heaven and earth,
of all things visible and invisible.
And in one Lord Jesus Christ,
the only Son of God,
begotten from the Father before all ages,
God from God,
Light from Light,
true God from true God,
begotten, not made;
of the same essence as the Father.
Through him all things were made.
For us and for our salvation
he came down from heaven;
he became incarnate by the Holy Spirit and the virgin Mary,
and was made human.
He was crucified for us under Pontius Pilate;
he suffered and was buried.
The third day he rose again, according to the Scriptures.
He ascended to heaven
and is seated at the right hand of the Father.
He will come again with glory
to judge the living and the dead.
His kingdom will never end.
And we believe in the Holy Spirit,
the Lord, the giver of life.
He proceeds from the Father and the Son,
and with the Father and the Son is worshiped and glorified.
He spoke through the prophets.
We believe in one holy catholic and apostolic church.
We affirm one baptism for the forgiveness of sins.
We look forward to the resurrection of the dead,