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The most dangerous Christian

Posted on July 29, 2021 by Mel Wild

The most dangerous Christian in the world is not the one who knows the Bible frontwards and backwards, the firebrand preacher, or even the most uncompromising believer. The most dangerous Christian is the one who has entered into the cooperative … Continue reading →

Posted in Heaven on earth, Identity, Sonship | Tagged Christianity, Jesus, transformation | 13 Comments

The gateway to authentic living

Posted on June 16, 2021 by Mel Wild

What the world needs now is other-centered, self-giving love, not political activism. Every inhumanity to man and social injustice is automatically taken care of when we treat others the same way we want to be treated. This is the essence … Continue reading →

Posted in Freedom, Love, Sonship | Tagged Christianity, Cooperative process, Intimacy with God, Sermon on the Mount, Spiritual growth, transformation | 9 Comments

The best spiritual vaccine against deception

Posted on October 18, 2020 by Mel Wild

Since Coronavirus has been sweeping through our nation and the world in 2020, I thought it would be good for us to look at a deadly virus of another kind—deception—and the best spiritual vaccine we have against it. This “virus” … Continue reading →

Posted in Freedom, Sonship | Tagged antichrist, Christianity, False teaching, Gospel, Hearing God's voice, Holy Spirit, Intimacy with God, Jesus, Trinity | 6 Comments

Heart and head matters

Posted on June 28, 2020 by Mel Wild

If the goal is that we grow up into Christ (Eph.4:15), which it is, then we’re going to need to re-form our hearts as well as our heads. These are both critical components for training our soul to live from … Continue reading →

Posted in Faith, Love, Reformation, Rest of God, Sonship | Tagged Abiding in Christ, Bible, Christianity, transformation | 7 Comments

Knowing His works and knowing His ways

Posted on May 17, 2020 by Mel Wild

What’s most significant to me about the current move of God is that He’s transitioning us from knowing His works to knowing His ways. I’ve talked a lot in the past about how we’re leaving the transactional gospel for a … Continue reading →

Posted in Heaven on earth, Rest of God, Sonship | Tagged Abiding in Christ, Christianity, Intimacy with God, Transactional Christianity, transactional gospel, transformation | 6 Comments

Not what you know but WHO you know

Posted on December 6, 2019 by Mel Wild

Eternal life is not about a place, it’s about a Person. It’s not about what you know but Who you know. It’s not based on believing the right things, although believing them is important, it’s about experientially knowing God as … Continue reading →

Posted in Doctrine, Heaven on earth, Identity | Tagged Christianity, Eternal life, Jesus, Relationship, transformation, Truth, unity of the faith | 8 Comments

Leaving narcissistic Christianity to follow Christ

Posted on September 29, 2019 by Mel Wild

Before I begin, I’m not using “narcissistic” here to refer to the personality disorder, but to living according to an image instead of authentically. In Greek mythology, Narcissus was cursed by Echo, making him so obsessed with his own image … Continue reading →

Posted in Freedom, Identity | Tagged Authentic Christianity, Christianity, Discipleship, Following Christ, Intimacy with God, Narcissism, transformation | 18 Comments

What if we returned to the ancient faith?

Posted on September 15, 2019 by Mel Wild

There’s a quiet revolution going on within the body of Christ; one that’s recovering ancient Christological truths that are setting us free from the powerless, humanistic, and deistic philosophies that have dominated Western theology since the Enlightenment. We’re recovering the … Continue reading →

Posted in Heaven on earth, Identity, Reformation, Sonship, Theology | Tagged atonement, C. Baxter Kruger, Christology, Intimacy with God, John Crowder, Nicene Creed, transformation, Trinity | 4 Comments

Taste and See!

Posted on August 21, 2019 by Mel Wild

We’re currently living in a time when the ubiquitous influence of Christianity that under-girded Western culture for a millennia has become a thing of history. But I would be quick to add, this is not necessarily a bad thing, because … Continue reading →

Posted in Faith, Identity, Reformation, The Shift, Theology | Tagged Christianity, Intimacy with God, Relationships, Religion and Spirituality, Taste and See, Transactional Christianity | 13 Comments

To know Christ and to make Him known

Posted on July 31, 2019 by Mel Wild

At the very center of Christianity is a Person: Jesus Christ. We know this in our theology but sometimes I wonder if we know it in our mission and value statements, especially in our experience. What moves me and motivates … Continue reading →