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If you had to change your name, what would your new name be?

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The Son of God has come to give us His understanding. (1 John 5:20) Now He wants to live within in us and to daily lead us by His Spirit.

Continually surrendering your heart and your desires to the life and leadership of the Holy Spirit within you is the essence of discipleship. Without the direct, personal leading of the Holy Spirit, discipleship will always shipwreck. The Bible calls us to hear and obey Spirit-taught word instead of human wisdom. (1 Corinthians 2:6-7)

Words that come directly from the mouth of God are more important than physical food. (Matthew 4:4) People need Spirit-taught words. Human taught words are insufficient. (1 Corinthians 2:13) God the Holy Spirit is speaking. Train yourself to hear and obey what He is saying directly to you. (Revelation 2:7)

The best sermon is when God the Holy Spirit personally preaches in your heart. God the Holy Spirit wants to reveal things to you that your physical eyes and ears can’t hear and see and that your mind can’t conceive. (1 Corinthians 2:9-10)

If you want to know what God thinks, you have to listen to the Holy Spirit and not put your trust in human wisdom. “No one knows the thoughts of God except the Spirit of God.” (1 Corinthians 2:11)

Without the Holy Spirit, the things that come from God cannot be understood. They even sound foolish unless and until they are directly revealed to you by the Spirit. (1 Corinthians 2:14)

Until we learn to “live by the Spirit,” we will stay “mere infants in Christ.” (1 Corinthians 3:1) God the Holy Spirit wants to give you the mind of Christ. Then you will begin to daily see and live from Jesus’ thoughts and perspective instead of from your own. (1 Corinthians 14:16)

People are the temple of the Holy Spirit. Bricks and mortar aren’t. (1 Corinthians 6:19-20) Spiritual maturity isn’t determined by where you sit on Sunday mornings but by how much you surrender your heart and will to God throughout each day.

The belief that only meetings conducted or authorized by an institutional church are true meetings of the body of Christ is false. (Matthew 18:20) Let the Spirit prompt you when and where to gather with other believers.

The true Christian expert who all Christ-followers need is God the Holy Spirit. Listen to and obey Him. He speaks directly to human hearts and also through the Bible. The Bible was written to be absorbed and obeyed, not to be analyzed and dissected.

Instead of being worshipped in a specific location or in a particular type of religious meeting, God wants to be worshiped “in spirit and in truth,” (John 4:24)

Christians need to
Follow Christ’s call,
Not just Sunday
Protocol.

22 things that are more important for a Christian to do than to go to church:

1) Tell the truth, (Ephesians 4:15)
2) Be humble, (James 4:10)
3) Don’t compare yourself with others, (2 Corinthians 10:12)
4) Refuse to steal, (Exodus 20:15)
5) Let Jesus be your literal Lord and King, (Matthew 6:33)
6) Make your every thought obey Jesus, (2 Corinthians 10:5)
7) Honor your father and mother, (Ephesians 6:2)
8) Be led by the Holy Spirit, (Romans 8:14)
9) Deny yourself, (Luke 9:23)
10 Avoid drunkenness, (Ephesians 5:18)
11) Put away all sin, (Mark 1:15)
12) Be sexually pure, (Exodus 24:14)
13) Love your enemies, (Matthew 5:44)
14) Bless those who curse you, (Luke 6:28)
15) Pray for those who despitefully use you, (Luke 6:28)
16) Rejoice in the Lord always, (Philippians 4:4)
17) Read and obey the Bible, (Joshua 1:8)
18) Pray without stopping, (1 Thessalonians 5:17)
19) Love one another, (John 13:34)
20) Assemble together to obey the 50+ New Testament one another commands, (Hebrews 10:25)
21) Worship in spirit and in truth, (John 4:24)
22) Keep your heart close to God. (Matthew 15:8-9)

Let the Spirit lead you beyond church as usual. Then you’ll never be the same.