Thank you for your patience. My reply was indeed returned to me undeliverable.
Biblical Scribes:
The scribe that you should study out is Ezra. He is the only scribe in the entire bible who is referred to as a "scribe instructed in the Kingdom of God." He is also the scribe that the Jewish people considers to be the greatest of all the scribes in biblical history. In addition, it was Ezra whom Jesus spoke of in Matthew 13:52 when he said, "You must become like a scribe instructed in the Kingdom of Heaven...." Keep in mind that the first ministry of a scribe was that of a teacher. They had to know the word, understand and interpret it before being released into the "scribal" aspect of their ministries.
The anointing that accompanies a person who sings is that of worship and praise. The foundation for this is rooted in David's ministry --- he gave birth to the fullness of "organized" worship and praise in the church. It was from him that the sons of Asaph, Korah and even Chenaniah was birth. The psalmists ministry is very, very close to that of the musician (the one who plays a physical instrument)... as the human body itself becomes an "instrument" for the Lord. Very often, minstrels and musicians do "write" under the scribal anointing. I have met minstrels who do not write; but I believe they are SUPPOSED TO... and just haven't tapped into that area of ministry for whatever reason. The composition of music and the writing of songs are prophetically inspired... so it can't be anything else BUT the Scribal Anointing. What distinguishes them from the scribe though is the fact that their passion is on the actual singing or the composing of music; whereas the scribe's strongest passion is writing. I sing as well and am often invited to lead worship in places... but this is not my passion. My passion is writing and then I'd have to say the minstrel in me comes in further down the list...
Yes, there are prophetic thespians so to speak. I, however, believe that this ministry is rooted specifically in "story telling or the use of orators." In the scriptures, the scribes were instructed to memorize what the Lord had spoken and to retell those stories to His people for generations. In doing so, many of these stories were DEMONSTRATED and expressed with the passion and fire of the Lord. In Jewish culture, bible stories, traditions and such are still retold with this type of passion until this day. But because of the outpouring of the spirit, we are now able to be "inspired" by the Lord to demonstrate and express His word in all of our God-given creativity... thus giving birth to what many refer to as acting or drama. So this anointing is really a divine ability to interpret God's word through creative demonstration.
Because the Lord has endowed you with these gifts, he is fully expecting them to come forth in ministry through you in their fullness. While you will walk in all of these areas and more... there is generally "one" that brings you a greater level of joy than others... and that soothes your soul in times of trouble. For me, that is writing. For my best friend (who also writes, acts and sings with great power), singing is the one gift that brings her into this place.
I do hope this helps you man of God, Prophet of Yahweh....
Tuesday, August 16, 2011
Dream Work's interpretation....(review)
Here are the interpretations to both dreams.
In the case of this old, gruesome, grey, ghostly woman 'poppin' up everywhere I seemed to be. It speaks of Lillith-->Old Hag-->related to Succubus spirit.
Dad's words: Purify FAST!
Gotta start closing the doors that I've opened and have been opened that are entertaining Incubus. Close everything that i'm entertaining sexually.
Purify because 'she's' following me everywhere. The Old Hag sits on me and sucks the life out of me and astral projects-so its actually a living person-attached to sexual desires and lusts. She's following me around to stop my ability to produce!
Here is what Apostle Kimberly Daniels' has to say about Lillith:
Succubus-Genesis 6:2
evil spirit or demon that in medieval times was thought to descend upon sleeping men and have sexual intercourse with them. Some people have testified that this spirit can have both sex organs. These demons open the door to sexual perversions such as masturbation and homosexuality. These demons respond to human desire and will cause body parts to do the things they would do in natural sexual acts. These doors may also be opened to a person if that person associates with someone in his or her house who is entertaining sex demons. Be careful whom you allow to hang around, come into, or sleep at your house.
Lillith-Isaiah 34:14
Lillith means 'night.' She is a female demon that lives in desolate places. Lillith is called the 'night hag.' Lamashtu is the babylonian counterpart. Isaiah refers to her as the demon of the desert. Lillith is assigned to kill the ability to reproduce.
*******************************************************************************
The second dream...
Standing - equates stability, firm and fixed, consistency
Water - Word of Yahweh, a stream or issue of spirutuality, a body or collection of knowledge, teaching, spiritual or religious doctrine.
See - awareness, alertness, watch
Elephant-like god - 'Ganesha' Strong, prosperity, strength based on education etc.
Pale - dying
Yahweh has gotten me stabilized in the Spirit. Getting to a place where i'm able to be a doer. Watch out for Ganesha...He's watching me...be sober...don't allow ME to give place to him. Don't feed my 'hindu god' (human wisdom), don't feed my intellect; be sober.
The way I don't feed my intellect is by being submitted to Ruach HaKodesh. Keeps me from feeding ganesha or giving him life. Stay fixed, don't get to comfortable! Human Wisdom is dying in the water. Just WATCH it! And watch ME; that I don't try to go and revive it because thats the side of me thats dying. But its DYING...not dead...WATCH IT!
Its real interesting how Yahweh chose to deal with me. Wow! Ganesha????? really????? wow!
-Minister O. PreJean
monostich's
the forgetful man thought bearing his sexual appeal :: would cover up his insecurities.
[With each passing moment]
with each passing moment :: the mirror reflected his need to be seen and approved.
[Chocolate perfection]
chocolate perfection, hazel eyes :: contoured musculature :: looming inadequacies hidden in allure.
Sunday, August 14, 2011
...
that was my addicion...
always a body...chocolate and defined in
muscle.
he was etched in sex appeal and I saw not
a man but a release to the
pressureized build up in my loins...
leaking and panting
after him
in heat....
wow....
Wednesday, August 10, 2011
-Directions for the Life NOW-
Enoch - Dedication; speaks of RELATIONSHIP
.He walked with Yah
.In all he lived 365 years
.His years number those of the days in a solar year.
*in a years time: my life can trasform. Walking in obedience to Yah; in a year everything I see can change and I can be postured from a heavenly place.
.Maintain my posture
.Walk in the spirit without backsliding
.Revealing the secret (mysteries, non-comprehended) things.
*Catapillar: all they do is EAT and GROW! That I begin to change and morph and shed OFF insecurities, fears, failures etc.
*As I eat and grow, there are some things I will shed off. I will outgrown my old skin and shed off.
*Welcome rebuke, correction, and chastisement etc.
*Develop relationship where I become one with Him and people can't tell the difference between He and me.
My focus: EAT & GROW!
Nazirite Vow: speaks of CONSECRATION
*maintain my NV. I'm not a levitical priest; i'm a davidic priest (prophet, priest, and king)
Plumbline: speaks of UPRIGHTNESS, ALLIGNMENT w/ YAH
.What does a Plumbline do?
Daniel: speaks of INTEGRITY, ORDER
.He defended his faith etc.
.trail-blazer, statesman, pioneer, politician
.Order, no compromise
.Intelligent
.Used gifts at the appropriate time.
.Studied and applied them at the appropriate time.
Focus on These things along with Psalm 119....and I'm good.
-Prayer-
Maintain Nazirite vow...
When I pray, get to the point! Not with a lot of words.
I'm a divine archer! Use strategic words. When I pray
target and aim those words; not a lot of words
.Use the tools skillfully.
.Reason, brain, intelligence, logic skillfully.
in prayer i want to be as honest as possible. speak from sincerity, open and transparent when talking to Yahweh.
So choose words carefully and humbe myself.
KNOW who i'm approaching.
HOW to approach Him.
Humbleness of spirit; meek, sincere...
Be honest about ME: habits, insecurities, fears...pray the WORD and attack those things with the word. Come for myself!
Empty me out! Mortify me through prayer. Declare in prayer then allign my life with the words of the declaration; thats going before me; going into my tomorrows. In prayer attack me with the word. The word goes into my purpose and destiny! The word can change my mind, perspective, my ability to decide, free my reason, give me the ability to make sound decisions.
.He walked with Yah
.In all he lived 365 years
.His years number those of the days in a solar year.
*in a years time: my life can trasform. Walking in obedience to Yah; in a year everything I see can change and I can be postured from a heavenly place.
.Maintain my posture
.Walk in the spirit without backsliding
.Revealing the secret (mysteries, non-comprehended) things.
*Catapillar: all they do is EAT and GROW! That I begin to change and morph and shed OFF insecurities, fears, failures etc.
*As I eat and grow, there are some things I will shed off. I will outgrown my old skin and shed off.
*Welcome rebuke, correction, and chastisement etc.
*Develop relationship where I become one with Him and people can't tell the difference between He and me.
My focus: EAT & GROW!
Nazirite Vow: speaks of CONSECRATION
*maintain my NV. I'm not a levitical priest; i'm a davidic priest (prophet, priest, and king)
Plumbline: speaks of UPRIGHTNESS, ALLIGNMENT w/ YAH
.What does a Plumbline do?
Daniel: speaks of INTEGRITY, ORDER
.He defended his faith etc.
.trail-blazer, statesman, pioneer, politician
.Order, no compromise
.Intelligent
.Used gifts at the appropriate time.
.Studied and applied them at the appropriate time.
Focus on These things along with Psalm 119....and I'm good.
-Prayer-
Maintain Nazirite vow...
When I pray, get to the point! Not with a lot of words.
I'm a divine archer! Use strategic words. When I pray
target and aim those words; not a lot of words
.Use the tools skillfully.
.Reason, brain, intelligence, logic skillfully.
in prayer i want to be as honest as possible. speak from sincerity, open and transparent when talking to Yahweh.
So choose words carefully and humbe myself.
KNOW who i'm approaching.
HOW to approach Him.
Humbleness of spirit; meek, sincere...
Be honest about ME: habits, insecurities, fears...pray the WORD and attack those things with the word. Come for myself!
Empty me out! Mortify me through prayer. Declare in prayer then allign my life with the words of the declaration; thats going before me; going into my tomorrows. In prayer attack me with the word. The word goes into my purpose and destiny! The word can change my mind, perspective, my ability to decide, free my reason, give me the ability to make sound decisions.
Thursday, August 4, 2011
2 pop
pop
brazen in the face
motivated to just touch
release and go.
pop
my cookie-cutter
fantasies...half
baked.
©2011
brazen in the face
motivated to just touch
release and go.
pop
my cookie-cutter
fantasies...half
baked.
©2011
2 pop
pop
with regret-
the stench of my leaving
fresh tears.
pop
took me long-
whispers of laughter
in stone veins.
©2011
with regret-
the stench of my leaving
fresh tears.
pop
took me long-
whispers of laughter
in stone veins.
©2011
[Addiction]
Addiction
Spokesman
The feel of lust suited his fancy. "Do you like
burning for them?"
She asked, he smiled wider
turning toward the computer screen filled with the
faces of many, lonely women.
Spokesman
The feel of lust suited his fancy. "Do you like
burning for them?"
She asked, he smiled wider
turning toward the computer screen filled with the
faces of many, lonely women.
[Short Story #2]
I couldn't ask for more...in fact what I had was much, much more than I had ever anticipated.
But in the back of my mind I was aware that what I had and everything that came with this; was causing me such grief. The thing was I had managed to fall in love with my best friend. 'A Problem?' some might say and some might ask; many might even go far as to say, 'how could that be a problem?' Yeah, I was well aware of the old saying that 'friends make the best lovers' and in the beginning it was truly a beautiful union.
I had been accquainted with this person for close to ten years and each year I grew closer and closer.
Each year my feelings and emotions went well beyond just friendship and normal appreciation.
Guess what i'm doing? I'm sitting in my room staring out of my large window enjying the beauty of the rain falling. Yeap my day is composed of silence , an overcast sky and rain; that can easily be confused with the black rain falling inside my heart. I press my face against the window pain and instead of seeing the rain drenched streets, umbrellas and the like...I see sunny days and days spent in each other's company.
I remember taking the metro to the Village movie theatre, or Almond's Bar.
I'm nostalgic of walks in the square of Dillon's park; even trips to the more fashionable, artsy part of the city; always together, always enjoying each other more and more. During those golden days, I never allowed myself to worry about any thing. Nothing was more important than being around or with you...I mean, when you breathed , I would truly live; when you would blink your eyes I would truly see. Then, I couldn't even begin to put a lable to what I was feeling...Nah, I couldn't put a name to it. Imagine my surprise when I finally realized what it was. Can you empathize with how I felt when I woke up mad stupidly love-drunk? Love-drunk off of you, my bestfriend and companion. Nah, you probably wouldn't be able to understand if I brought this too you. I'm sitting here now with a big ass smile on my face. Man....Oh! the lightning and crash of thunder brings me back to a reality known as the present. All of this is alright I suppose; falling in love with you and all that jazz, but there is just one catch to this whole situation...
...how does a man explain that he's fallen completely in love with another man?
Gentleman Sings the Blues/2005
[Those thoughts]
So what if he was delicious...so what if THIS was the face of lust...the
look and appeal of lust. How alluring and utterly entrancing and I found
myself panting after it...panting after him; him and every other man that
looked like him. The eyes leaked their own brand of seduction. It wasn't
blatant...just subtle and unintentional. He was my secret...He was the
entity I harbored in the bowels of this earthen house. Those puffy, inviting
lips weaved spells, mocking me...tuggin at my libido for me to act and
kiss him. Kiss him; exchanging pheremones and all the other chemical
make ups that would bind us together. The appearance of lust was...was...
so exquisite...I couldn't see beyond the sex, couldn't see beyond the evil...couldn't
see into those dark eyes to the eyes of greedy death staring back at me...and the main part
of me did not want to see.
I wanted to close my sight and be led solely by my feelings,
solely by my need...my want...to touch him...run my finger across that rippled body
glazed in sweet, addictive caramel. He was beautiful man, I mean...dude was
fly beyond...and it was just another shade of sex...another facet of need...that
tugged at my loins; the kind that I buried in the fertile ground of my imagination and at
night; stroked myself silly to endless fantasies of kisses passing back and forth; my ears
filled with the symphony of lusty need between two souls. the cadence of moans and groans...
the staccato punctuations of profanity because it just felt...so...dang...good!
blatant...just subtle and unintentional. He was my secret...He was the
entity I harbored in the bowels of this earthen house. Those puffy, inviting
lips weaved spells, mocking me...tuggin at my libido for me to act and
kiss him. Kiss him; exchanging pheremones and all the other chemical
make ups that would bind us together. The appearance of lust was...was...
so exquisite...I couldn't see beyond the sex, couldn't see beyond the evil...couldn't
see into those dark eyes to the eyes of greedy death staring back at me...and the main part
of me did not want to see.
I wanted to close my sight and be led solely by my feelings,
solely by my need...my want...to touch him...run my finger across that rippled body
glazed in sweet, addictive caramel. He was beautiful man, I mean...dude was
fly beyond...and it was just another shade of sex...another facet of need...that
tugged at my loins; the kind that I buried in the fertile ground of my imagination and at
night; stroked myself silly to endless fantasies of kisses passing back and forth; my ears
filled with the symphony of lusty need between two souls. the cadence of moans and groans...
the staccato punctuations of profanity because it just felt...so...dang...good!
So what if he was delicious...so what if THIS was the face of lust...the
look and appeal of lust. How alluring and utterly entrancing and I found
myself panting after it...panting after him; him and every other man that
looked like him.
....What a fool I was...and one that was facing the reality of death.
....What a fool I was...and one that was facing the reality of death.
[He was gloriously]
He was gloriously excellent in his build :: breattaking in the way he just :: was...
pop
hazel eyes:
sight walking all thru
my veins and loins.
[Question]
wondered is this how lillith looks? is this the form
she takes...death cloaked in
such finery; leaves me yearning?
[Raw hands dancing]
raw hands dancing primal steps :: easy strokes lids to eyes closed and soon :: release
Dreamworks Interpretation...
Here are the interpretations to both dreams.
In the case of this old, gruesome, grey, ghostly woman 'poppin' up everywhere I seemed to be. It speaks of Lillith-->Old Hag-->related to Succubus spirit.
Dad's words: Purify FAST!
Gotta start closing the doors that I've opened and have been opened that are entertaining Incubus. Close everything that i'm entertaining sexually.
Purify because 'she's' following me everywhere. The Old Hag sits on me and sucks the life out of me and astral projects-so its actually a living person-attached to sexual desires and lusts. She's following me around to stop my ability to produce!
Here is what Apostle Kimberly Daniels' has to say about Lillith:
Succubus-Genesis 6:2
evil spirit or demon that in medieval times was thought to descend upon sleeping men and have sexual intercourse with them. Some people have testified that this spirit can have both sex organs. These demons open the door to sexual perversions such as masturbation and homosexuality. These demons respond to human desire and will cause body parts to do the things they would do in natural sexual acts. These doors may also be opened to a person if that person associates with someone in his or her house who is entertaining sex demons. Be careful whom you allow to hang around, come into, or sleep at your house.
Lillith-Isaiah 34:14
Lillith means 'night.' She is a female demon that lives in desolate places. Lillith is called the 'night hag.' Lamashtu is the babylonian counterpart. Isaiah refers to her as the demon of the desert. Lillith is assigned to kill the ability to reproduce.
*******************************************************************************
The second dream...
Standing - equates stability, firm and fixed, consistency
Water - Word of Yahweh, a stream or issue of spirutuality, a body or collection of knowledge, teaching, spiritual or religious doctrine.
See - awareness, alertness, watch
Elephant-like god - 'Ganesha' Strong, prosperity, strength based on education etc.
Pale - dying
Yahweh has gotten me stabilized in the Spirit. Getting to a place where i'm able to be a doer. Watch out for Ganesha...He's watching me...be sober...don't allow ME to give place to him. Don't feed my 'hindu god' (human wisdom), don't feed my intellect; be sober.
The way I don't feed my intellect is by being submitted to Ruach HaKodesh. Keeps me from feeding ganesha or giving him life. Stay fixed, don't get to comfortable! Human Wisdom is dying in the water. Just WATCH it! And watch ME; that I don't try to go and revive it because thats the side of me thats dying. But its DYING...not dead...WATCH IT!
Its real interesting how Yahweh chose to deal with me. Wow! Ganesha????? really????? wow!
-Minister O. PreJean
Dreamworks...
The following are little sketches to two dreams I had while I slept. Last night my dad and I spoke and he walked me through the process of interpreting the dream according to Ruach HaKodesh.
Had this weird dream about a huge underwater elephant or octopus being half in the earth last night. Can't say I fully remember everything... Hmmm something to ponder. The other evening I seemed to dream about this gross looking female like entity that was always popping up. Not certain about that.Its time for me to fast and really put my eyes and ears into the Law of Yahweh! Its really time to embrace these silent years and let The Upright Mediator...The being was laying down, a fallen state? And seemed to be a pale or ivory type color. I believe I was underwater though you couldn't tell. Increase me in Yahweh's wisdom and stature having favor with God and with man. I want His security and protection. I dont want intellect without him or sense and reason without The Mediator. I dont want deception and error. I want the workings of The mind of Messiah ever operating in and thru me. I will not be a miserable prisoner slave to Ganesha or any other type of self/worldly intellect or wisdom. I dont know the significance of the dreams or even if they are valid But I will ponder and pray and immerse myself in Yahweh's Law. Time to mature. The being was laying down, a fallen state? And seemed to be a pale or ivory type color. I believe I was underwater though you couldn't tell.
-Minister O. PreJean
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Prepared to scribe about my...
coming into the knowledge of who I am, what I'm to do, what is my existence in His design for me.
Going to be an exciting ride getting to see and meet the real me firsthand from the lips and guidance
of the Upright Mediator (Melitz Yashar).
Going to be an exciting ride getting to see and meet the real me firsthand from the lips and guidance
of the Upright Mediator (Melitz Yashar).
-Min. O. PreJean
Insight into what being a REAL minister is.
Minister:
1. Ministers served deity as an agent of the other world.
2. Ministers were seen as agents of both worlds.
2. Ministers functioned as an official intermediary between the two worlds assuring the citizens of the god's territory learned, understood, and obeyed their celestial monarch.
These terms were applied to this responsibility. They establish the work, duties, scope, and influence a minister had before secularism ruled.
1. Dean
2. Agent
3. Aide
4. Ambassador
5. Envoy
6. Diplomat
7. Executive
8. Official
9. Plenipotentiary
10. Premier
11. Prime Minister
12. Chief of State
13. Governmental Head
14. Chancellor
15. Administrator
16. Steward
17. Governor
18. Judge
19. Leader
20. Overseer
21. President
22. Negotiator
23. Operator
24. Operative
25. Subsidy
Twenty-five terms express, what a minister was understood as in earlier eras. The listed terms shed light on the basis of the authority inherent in the offices people enter upon being installed in Yah's service.
Today's ministers feeling themselves more sophisticated than their predecessors have agreed as a collective guild of professionals to forego the use of titles, both with each other and with their beneficiaries. The tactic, quite effective to date, silently (maybe informally) decrees that church leaders, with the possible exception of the pastor depending on the religious camp, were not inclined nor worthy of titular regard. The long term fallout from this action is that Christian clergy need not be accorded or seen as deserving the respect such titles award othr professional fields.
Contending that Yahweh does not and never intended for one position to exercise authority over another irrespective of Paul's deliberate use of them in Ephesians 4:11 and 1 Corinthians 12:28, 29, modern ministers subtly erased the boundaries that distinguished the minister from the body. Consequently, they stripped the use of titles from all ministry positions and leveled them for the sake of minister and congregational equality.
Christian leaders love the idea of blending in with their masses in every possible way, not a problem in itself. Eager to show that their elevation to SERVICE in Yahweh's ministry is no big deal, they go to extremes to remain one of the gang, so to speak. Truly, humility is certainly godly and Yahweh does not expect us to laud one position over the other, but it takes more than a title to constitute abuse or to make people feel abused by one in authority.
Blending ranks with the masses often has the affect of frustrating the leader's accountability to Yahweh and diminishing their influence with the people. Consequently the 'title-less minister' tactic backfires and almost appears deceptive. Surely, its disarming.
A minister's friendship with the flock and concern for its comfort should NOT be allowed to dilute the Official authority Yahweh needs His leaders to exercise in His name. Those to benefit from a leader's position should feel at ease with them but not to the point of them anticipating leniency as a result. Quality steps should be taken to assure that ease does not breed familiarity that fosters and/or promotes casualness and disrespect.
People have to KNOW who their leaders are and what they may expect from them.
People need to recognize and resolve WHY their leaders should be trusted. The best way to do this goes back in time. It has been done historically by assigning various actions, functions, authorities, and titles. THAT is how people immediately recognize their DIRECT and INDIRECT authority figures.
Strangers MUST be ANNOUNCED! And powerful strangers must notify the powers in distant territories of ANY agents they send (dispatch or commission) to them.
Companies, clubs, and organizations, courts, militaries, and civil agencies ALL practice the use of titles and authority and we live with it DAILY. Yet when it comes to the church, somehow the rules and protocals relax in favor of vague, ambivalent spirituality. However, Yahweh, being orderly and lawful--He for the sake of legitimacy follows the protocal He set to avoid His Spiritual and Natural authorities rejection of His dispatched or commissioned agents.
1. Ministers served deity as an agent of the other world.
2. Ministers were seen as agents of both worlds.
2. Ministers functioned as an official intermediary between the two worlds assuring the citizens of the god's territory learned, understood, and obeyed their celestial monarch.
These terms were applied to this responsibility. They establish the work, duties, scope, and influence a minister had before secularism ruled.
1. Dean
2. Agent
3. Aide
4. Ambassador
5. Envoy
6. Diplomat
7. Executive
8. Official
9. Plenipotentiary
10. Premier
11. Prime Minister
12. Chief of State
13. Governmental Head
14. Chancellor
15. Administrator
16. Steward
17. Governor
18. Judge
19. Leader
20. Overseer
21. President
22. Negotiator
23. Operator
24. Operative
25. Subsidy
Twenty-five terms express, what a minister was understood as in earlier eras. The listed terms shed light on the basis of the authority inherent in the offices people enter upon being installed in Yah's service.
Today's ministers feeling themselves more sophisticated than their predecessors have agreed as a collective guild of professionals to forego the use of titles, both with each other and with their beneficiaries. The tactic, quite effective to date, silently (maybe informally) decrees that church leaders, with the possible exception of the pastor depending on the religious camp, were not inclined nor worthy of titular regard. The long term fallout from this action is that Christian clergy need not be accorded or seen as deserving the respect such titles award othr professional fields.
Contending that Yahweh does not and never intended for one position to exercise authority over another irrespective of Paul's deliberate use of them in Ephesians 4:11 and 1 Corinthians 12:28, 29, modern ministers subtly erased the boundaries that distinguished the minister from the body. Consequently, they stripped the use of titles from all ministry positions and leveled them for the sake of minister and congregational equality.
Christian leaders love the idea of blending in with their masses in every possible way, not a problem in itself. Eager to show that their elevation to SERVICE in Yahweh's ministry is no big deal, they go to extremes to remain one of the gang, so to speak. Truly, humility is certainly godly and Yahweh does not expect us to laud one position over the other, but it takes more than a title to constitute abuse or to make people feel abused by one in authority.
Blending ranks with the masses often has the affect of frustrating the leader's accountability to Yahweh and diminishing their influence with the people. Consequently the 'title-less minister' tactic backfires and almost appears deceptive. Surely, its disarming.
A minister's friendship with the flock and concern for its comfort should NOT be allowed to dilute the Official authority Yahweh needs His leaders to exercise in His name. Those to benefit from a leader's position should feel at ease with them but not to the point of them anticipating leniency as a result. Quality steps should be taken to assure that ease does not breed familiarity that fosters and/or promotes casualness and disrespect.
People have to KNOW who their leaders are and what they may expect from them.
People need to recognize and resolve WHY their leaders should be trusted. The best way to do this goes back in time. It has been done historically by assigning various actions, functions, authorities, and titles. THAT is how people immediately recognize their DIRECT and INDIRECT authority figures.
Strangers MUST be ANNOUNCED! And powerful strangers must notify the powers in distant territories of ANY agents they send (dispatch or commission) to them.
Companies, clubs, and organizations, courts, militaries, and civil agencies ALL practice the use of titles and authority and we live with it DAILY. Yet when it comes to the church, somehow the rules and protocals relax in favor of vague, ambivalent spirituality. However, Yahweh, being orderly and lawful--He for the sake of legitimacy follows the protocal He set to avoid His Spiritual and Natural authorities rejection of His dispatched or commissioned agents.
To convey His mind, will and desires, He sent messages, used the established message systems and postal carriers. Yahweh identified and classified His own couriers and empowered them with incomparable signature signs, wonders, and miracles to persuade those they met that indeed He had sent them. The pattern still holds today!
-TBA
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