Mainstream Christianity - Who God is to me.

This was from a friends blog located at http://whollyholy.blogspot.com/
I decided to comment and share more of my story in my search for our crater. To back up that God does work his miracles today and that he loves us and is there for us.

James my dear, dear friend sounds to me you have quite a fan base. I wish you good luck with this debate but something tells me it is going to go nowhere fast. Some people love there comfort zones and believing God works wonders is unimaginable. I believe Mainstream Christianity is boring that goes nowhere fast. I once was part of the Salvos and i can tell you my family goes way back to the good old days of William Booth himself as i have told you already. For many years i fell away because it was too mainstream as we are putting it aka boring and formal no going after God learning who he is and establishing a real lasting relationship with our father in heaven. It seems if we do love god and dare show it and go after him and do as he has commanded us to do that we must be possessed by demons or something just for believing in God and his son who died for us. I think there is something about that in Matthew and the other Gospels lol.

I can tell you at a young age i was keen to know god, to be his friend and to love the father but there was no opportunity only readings of what he was in the bible nothing more no substance, who was he errrr a carpenter, what dose he say hmmmm he loves you and everyone else be a good little boy, what did he do tricky one healed people. Ok i knew this stuff Who was he really, to me in this day of age. I wanted to know him personally. They preached he was alive cool so how do we talk, commune with him. So Jesus in this sense was just a story book character who did a bunch of stuff died and rose again and lived happily ever after The End. Not good enough Boring. Jesus now i am afraid was dead to me and i to him which is a sad fact. He's real but does not act even today??? Get real. I never knew who he was so i carried on in life beleaving something is out there but not knowing what just that his name was Jesus who was a great man. I wanted to know him experience him but never could all attempts wasn't good enough, so it was hopeless. It wasn't till he made himself known to me one day that i had any realization of who he was. I thank him for doing that if he hadn't i would have thought you were an idiot James and never stayed in touch. It was you who showed me and from there the passion for him grew and then he came and said hey Greg yea I'm real and i hear ya, what did you want to know? If only someone back in the day showed me a God who really does care and loves us and listen, one who is real and is still around even to this day. I would never have left the family of the Salvation Army and at times only recently i wish i hadn't. Today me and the Salvos there is a huge rift i don't know them anymore. But i am grateful i know Jesus, thank The Lord. I could have been another William Booth the way i am going these days lol. But i suppose even he is to out there for WJE. Reinhard Bonke now he's good sort of fellow in this day in age Sort of what WB was i guess. But i am glad i know God now i have learned so much FORM JESUS HIMSELF then i did from anyone else. It is because he is real to me now that i am finally on the path he intended. I have given an example God still dose miracles in what i have written that he came to me, spoke to my heart and i heard / received his message but no that would be too far fetched or out there for WJE. Jesus though his Holy Spirit actually does things today no can't be not Jesus doesn't happen. I have seen many miracles i like to call them the Lord does to this day and i am grateful to him and i want to see more to BRING ALL THE GLORY TO GOD HIMSELF ! ! ! Praise Jesus our Lord and Saviour.

This all reminds me of something Isaiah said once to his people,

“‘Be ever hearing, but never understanding; be ever seeing, but never perceiving.’ Make the heart of this people calloused;make their ears dull and close their eyes.Otherwise they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears,understand with their hearts, and turn and be healed.”

I just pray God opens himself up to everyone as he has for me. God loves you WJE just pray and listen to what God has to say not what we have to say. God Bless you anyway, i don't mean to attack anyone just thought i would share my story.