In America there is a spiritual movement and awakening. Individuals are seeking a relationship with deeper personal meaning. They are looking for truth and understanding that adds value to their life. They are looking for a divine presence that is active, interactive and intervening daily in our lives. These Easter Christians (see definition below) desire a spiritual experience that can be related to in the present tense, including their social, family life and job environment. These spiritual seekers are also seeking community. As a Easter Christian we are not seeking just miracles and signs, instead we are seeking the interactive presence of God in our lives! The following articles are by Rev. Johnny Shepherd of Easter Christian Fellowship in Cortez, Colorado. This site was created to share in the search. This is only one web site of many that represents this spiritual movement. Enjoy!
Some of our articles Include:
The Church in 2,005 AD- Practicing His Presence
The Church 2,005 A.D. - Become an
Easter Christian
The Anticipation- How to Recognize God and Practice His Presence
Yes - I desire to believe in God's active presence
Christ Centered Counseling
The Ramblings of Johnny
definition -- An Easter Christian is one who believes in the value of the cross historically and spiritually and then looks beyond the cross to a living, responding Lord who is interactive and intervening second by second in our lives daily. The word Apperceive Means to Encounter and Experience.
A Easter Christian is one who has accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and savior and now believes in a risen, active and interactive Lord who cares about our current life. and often uses other people, situations and circumstances to assist and direct us.
A Few of the Things We Believe:
1. God promises to pour out His Spirit upon all flesh
2. We will eat in plenty, be satisfied, and praise the name of the LORD our God, that has dealt wondrously with us: and as God's people we will never be ashamed.
3. Our sons and our daughters will report (be interested in) the things of God
4. Our matured men shall dream dreams (the plans God has for us as Christians)
5. Our young men shall see visions (discernment & understanding of God's role in our life)
6. We will have the results of God's work in us, which is holiness, and the end of God's work as everlasting life
7. The Spirit of God will guide us into all truth
8. The Spirit of God will help our infirmities
9. As Easter Christians we become the temple (meeting place) of God
10. The Spirit of God resides in us
11. We are washed, sanctified, justified in the name of Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
11. He that is joined unto the Lord is one spirit (we share a fellowship together)
12. The manifestation of God's Spirit is given to every man to profit by (profit in the sense of Attaining God's will in our life)
13. We are able to incorporate the fruit of God's Spirit into our life experiences, both internally and externally. The fruits are - love, joy, peace, long-suffering, gentleness, goodness, faith, Meekness, temperance
14. We can be strengthened with might (power & ability) by His Spirit in the inner man.
15. When we believe on the Son (Jesus) we have everlasting life
16. We dwell (are made safe) in God, and God dwells in us (to make us safe), because God has given us of his Spirit
17. We believe that we have already been judged by God and found "not guilty" through Christ who has redeemed us. Therefore, we do not focus on judgments and condemnations in the Bible but rather on the positive promises of God towards His children and the World
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