Creative Life Ministries

How do you talk about Christ, how do you share about Him with others? How do you talk about the needs that we each have and where can we get the answers?? There are so many wonderful Churches and Ministries already out there where people can go and learn about God. Why do we need any more?

With so many diversity of doctrines around, some question why even confuse the issue in folks minds any further by adding yet another round of ?the truth? proclamations? Because God has designed us each to be unique and wonderfully made with such different outlooks on life from one another that there is always room for yet another believer's perspective to perhaps help bring about even more understanding to add to the foundations laid down by these other powerful ministries gone before us.

We are living in such times as these as require that each of us to explore all that there is available in the whole spectrum range of the Gifts of the Holy Spirit and Knowledge and Wisdom from the Word of God and put each of these weapons to their fullest use in reaching our fellowman with the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Many are indeed reaching millions for Christ. And that is wonderful and beautiful and heartily applauded. Yet there are still those who are as yet unreached even within our own ranks, who are turned off by for any numbers of reasons, who are not understood merely because they are so different in some manner from us.

Too often we have tried to force them into the mold of our own set ways of following Christ thinking and too many make out those who refuse to confirm to our perfect solutions to be fools or rebellious children when in our naivety we have truly believed that only what we have been taught is of course the ONLY perfect way to grow into Christian Maturity. Sadly that doesn?t work for all people and we lose far too many good and precious souls to such hard and rigid thinking. Not all folks are going to fit into the square holes that we have ordained for them. So we really need to go back to square one sometimes and look for other means and methods in Christ to reach out to them, even with some that may appear to be the opposite of all that we tried with so far. After all it IS the salvation of their souls that we are truly compassionately after is it not, not just another notch on our gospel belts?

The only real set of standards and doctrines that ideally we all actually truly desire to emulate aren?t supposed to be one particular church?s set of rules and regulations, but the principles laid down by Christ Himself through His own actions and deeds upon this earth. Again here you run into just whose version of these principles that one is supposed to listen and to follow as their heart?s desire in this life. That is the one thing we cannot, we dare not tell you to do. We can present the soul-freeing message, as we each know it best, but then must really should be left up to the individuals to contemplate their own path in walking with the Lord, Jesus Christ! The Word of the Living God is anointed enough all by Himself to bring about the changes that God wants to happen in each of us.

Granted, learned and wise Biblical teachers are most certainly an ordained part of God?s plans for us to grow thereby. Granted the five-fold ministry is the main God called forth method of equipping the saints for the work of the ministry. We are full believers and supporters of all whom God has truly set forth in leadership under Him in this world today. But some folks are still turning their backs on what we so generously have to offer and it behooves some of us to take the time to go back and find out why.

?Just why are genuine and real Christians flat out turning their backs on such seemingly good and excellent Churches and Ministries? Could it be that some places can get too set in their ways and not realize that there are indeed other just as valuable God-ordained methods besides their own pet belief systems that will reach out and grab the hearts of men and women for God just as well? Apparently not! Or there wouldn?t be so many angry and wounded former church ?escapees? out there.

We all have unique and God-ordained talents that need to be nourished and treasured. People need to know they are loved and that God is whom they really need; not just by shoving a set of rules out of the Bible down their throats and assuming that somehow by osmosis or something or other they will turn out in the perfect image of Christ we have for them. We ourselves make no guarantees or promises that what we have to share is any better or worse than what the other very much God-called ministries have to teach you.

We just offer what we do know in the hopes that between the two or in spite of the two your own walk with Christ will grow stronger and you will become more courageous and knowledgeable in the ways of the Lord, well able to stand against the wiles of the wicked one in all his shapes and forms on this earth. People need to know their worth and value to our Father God, and to ourselves as their loving brethren in Christ. But too many are definitely NOT getting that impression one little bit from many, many places out there.

What they ARE getting the message about loud and clear is that if you don?t conform to our peculiar way of thinking and acting in this life you must be crazy, incompetent and going straight to hell if you continue on being so ?different? from the rest of us perfect creatures here. Aren?t these critics ?followers? of that said Christ they and look how they are behaving! Who wants to follow a god like that? Tsk! Tsk! Tsk! Christ is indeed all things to all peoples. Ideally that?s the goal of these same said Church folk, to present the best of Christ regardless of their human natures. But it just isn?t turning out that way at all. People are leaving the mainstay churches in droves, hungry and hurting, offended and angry, and still finding no answers or resolutions to the problems they are facing in life.

So here?s yet another ?voice in the wilderness? sharing on what we?ve learned about being one of those ?different? ones ourselves. Here?s one of those different approaches with perhaps some viewpoints worth considering in our struggles to overcome all that would seek to oppress and smother who we really are in Christ be it man or devil. Sometimes when you consider other variations on the theme of what God has for us to learn, the possibility exists that the answers already here from God become so more clear to understand and easy to grasp hold of when looked at from another perspective entirely.

Creative Life Ministries is for sharing the possibilities of God in you and of your unique worth and value in and to the whole Body of Christ. Creative Life Ministries is for encouraging you to develop and actually putting into use your own marvelous God-ordained Talents and Gifts. Creative Life Ministries is for You, to let you know there is someone who loves you and cares for you and that it?s perfectly all right to be ?different? in Christ in this life.

Our own core principles in Christ are based on the Apostle's and Nicene Creeds: We Believe in the Trinity, the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, who is One God and whose name is Jesus. We believe in God Almighty, the Father and Creator of the whole universe, the heavens and earth, in the inherent total goodness of God in whom there is NO evil and who does not traffic with evil in any form or fashion whatsoever nor can He be touched, moved or influenced by evil for any reason.

We believe in Jesus Christ, the Son of God, the only begotten of the Father, who was conceived of the Holy Spirit and born of the Virgin Mary and who suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, died, He descended into hell and on the third day He arose again from the dead. Who is the express image of the living Word of God that in the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word is God, the same was in the beginning with God. All things were made by Him and without Him was not anything made that was made. In Him is all life and that Life is the life of all men.? John 1:1-4 He ascended into and Heaven sits at the right hand of God, the Father Almighty, where He daily intercedes for us and from where HE shall judge the living and the dead. We believe in the fellowship of the Body of Christ, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, and the resurrection of the body and of life everlasting

We believe that Jesus walked upon this earth as a real flesh and blood man not only to show us the way to salvation in the Father but also to show us how to regain all that Adam lost for us in the fall, the God-ordained abilities to confidently stride through life free once more of cares and burdens, and anxieties and terrors that would beset us, and in the fullness of His strength and power within us today. And in whom we live and breathe and have our being, and through whom we are well able do exceedingly and abundantly above all that we can ask or thing and to overcome over all the wiles of the wicked one and completely fulfill our destinies in Him in this present lifetime in the here and now.

We also believe in the Present Day Healing Ministry of Jesus Christ who bore our sickness and diseases on the cross and by whose stripes we are healed. Isaiah 53:5 ~ In the powerful Goodness of an awesome ?Abba? DADDY! Father God, and in the very real Presence of the Third?? Person of the Trinity alive and real and present manifestation of Himself upon the face of the earth today, and in the daily use of these Gifts of this same Holy Spirit as described in Romans 12 and 1st Corinthians 12; and elsewhere in the scriptures, and in the Baptism of the Holy Ghost. We believe in the Five-Fold Ministry of Apostles, Prophets, Evangelists, Pastors and Teachers in whom all the Sons and Daughters of God who are called forth to operate for the? uplifting and encouragement of the Body of Christ. We believe in the inherent inerrancy of the Holy Scriptures as the Living Word of God Almighty Himself given to mankind in the form of the many wonderful and valid translations of the Word available for us today and in the duty of each of to partake of the richness of His Word that enables us to each work out our own salvation according to that which He has called us forth to be in Him

We believe that Faith is the core principle of God, Himself being the chief cornerstone upon whom the whole foundation is laid, and that without faith it is impossible to please God, because he that comes to God must believe that He is and that He is a rewarded of those that diligently seek Him. For faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen ? Hebrews 11:6,1-3 and Ephesians 2:20. ?We believe in the precious worth of each and every soul on the face of this earth. That we are each fully part of one another, beautifully and wonderfully made and jointly fit together because of as well as in spite of all our separate abilities, talents and gifts in Him. It is these unique differences from God that make us who we are and that empower us to go forth in His Name to reach the lost and the dying of the world today.

We are part and parcel of the fullness of Christ in God who is yet Three distinctive personalities but One being still. So we too are purposely designed to be a very valuable and needed part of the whole Body of Christ worldwide and yet we are also distinct and separate personalities in our own individual relationship with Him. Conflicts have arisen when people have tried to box us into their own patterns of uniqueness and denied that we too have any validity at all in predestined outcome of God?s Plans as well.

We want to share with you what those possibilities of us all being different in Him can be and how to have God?s confidence in who we are within ourselves in Him. We are each created and designed with many and wondrous inherent talents and gifts from God. Far too often circumstances and the cares of life and even well meaning folk may combine to keep us from discovering our full potential in Christ. The more learned men and women of God one can be exposed too, with all the rich variety of teachings and experiences the whole range Christian philosophies the different Churches and denominations and ministries has to offer, the more opportunity there is to learn about and explore to their fullest depths, one?s Gifts and talents from God. We hope to share with you and learn from you out of our mutual knowledge gained from all these wonderful sources so that it may provide you with even more insightful revelations into the Word of God. We offer you the opportunity to step out in the use of your own Gifts and talents in an encouraging and friendly atmosphere.

You have a destiny in God; you have a higher calling and a specific purpose in this life far above all that you may perceive at this point in time. You are not just an insignificant nobody in God?s scheme of things. You are a highly valued and very much needed individual. You matter to a whole lot more to people than you may realize. Let?s go on a treasure hunt together to discover within ourselves all that is beautiful and maah-velous and of a good report. It?s there! Inside you! Just waiting to be brought forth into full bloom. That fantastic man or woman of God full of His Glory and honor, a true vessel of virtue and grace right there within the soul of your very being.

If this layperson could rise above that all satan has tried to throw their way over the years, through thick and thin, without the benefit of a doctrinal degree or ordination papers and without the titled letters after one?s name and with none of man?s tinkering in faith-enomics, then there is surely hope for the multitudes of us other laypersons and congregational members not yet been given the opportunity to stir up the gifts within them beyond the privacy of their own walls. And there is hope also for those of you who have left places for whatever reasons, but especially because you felt you were considered a non-entity and that specialty of God that is within you, that is within each of us was not recognized as the rare and beautiful Sons and Daughters of the Most High God that you are.<

Wisdom: ?Any enterprise is built by wise planning, becomes strong through common sense, and profits wonderfully by keeping abreast of the facts.?? Proverbs 24: 3 and 4, the Living Bible. There are many ?facts? of truth about the Word of God and the wonderful Christian life available to us the believer, through all the ministries and churches of God that there are out there for you. Don?t let the experiences you may have had with one place turn you off to possibility that - that which you search for may be found at the very next place you visit. All are there to help and guide you into a rich and meaningful life in Christ.

Creative Life Ministries is just one more oddity among the multitudes of these Godly outreaches that He has set forth before you. We all speak from one heart and one voice and one desire that you learn of and bask in the Love of the Father God for you and yours. We just say these same principles in many ?different? ways. If you are one of those who has not yet found a place of acceptance among any group that you have encountered so far, why not give us a try? We are here for you

We invite you to write or email us with your comments or suggestions at [email protected]. We do not offer counseling services of any kind nor do we require that any assistance be given us in any form whatsoever. We rely wholly upon the Word as the sole means of our support. We place no guarantees on anything we say or do in and of ourselves, and you are free to accept or disregard all the information that we share with you in the light of your own unique perspective in Christ.?

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