The danger of hearing Yeshua's voice is becoming overly independent, individualistic, anarchistic. Yeshua doesn't speak to everyone about everything. He leads through leaders that he speaks to and through. His kingdom is not a democracy. Breakdown of the functions of apostles, prophets, and teachers. Apostle from Hebrew shalach to send, all about mission and goal oriented. Prophet from Hebrew navi, spokesperson experiencing messages, dreams, visions, often artistic or musical. Teacher from...

The how of hearing Yeshua's voice, through his Spirit. Unpacking Hebrew term for Spirit of Truth, Ruach ha Emet. Wind or breath. Is truth impersonal facts, or relational faithfulness? Hebrew root of truth emet is aman, meaning doorposts, faithful, lasting, and covenant. Yeshua's attractive offer to people hurting and disillusioned by broken friendships and failed relationships. Suicidal season in Izzy's life because people come and go. The mothering of the Spirit, pictured by nursing and...

How to prep to tell the stories of Scripture word of mouth, how to tell them in a group setting, and how to follow up with questions that get people freely thinking and talking. Telling the stories of the Bible is a mitzvah, a command of God! It doesn't just happen, it takes planning, intentionality, and practice. See Brass Tacks resource for storytellers and facilitators of gatherings at crownofmessiah.com. Story of man practicing telling a story on his unbelieving son and how it transformed...

How to have a relationship with Yeshua where you hear his voice and receive revelation from him, and how to gather as a community to cultivate and celebrate that relationship. Words to leaders, "let my people go" and "get out of the way". Torah-based communities need leaders though. Leaders not always present when groups in a network gather in homes across city. Lesson on transition from organisms including babies, plants, and caterpillars, communities grow and change. Lesson from...

How to prep for and tell a story from Scripture to your child or grandchild, friend, or neighbor. Grow a storytelling culture in your community. Religious world's challenge to get out of the ghetto, secular world's challenge to stop the busyness. Restructuring priorities and schedule to go after lost people, have meaningful conversations. Tips for telling a story to individuals and suggested questions to encourage discussion and enhance the friendship. Picture worth thousand words, story...

The talk where the rubber meets the road and things get dirty, but you get somewhere. Everyone is a storyteller! Start with family, neighbors, coworkers, friends. Why telling stories is an effective way to engage and disciple children. Why a story is something that anyone from any religious background or education can understand. Why even atheists and agnostics are more open to a story than to points and disembodied concepts. Don't defend your sword, use it!

Telling the stories from God's word, word of mouth, to people from other religions. Welcome people from other religious cultures to your city and neighborhood instead of fearing them. Yeshua sent them because you're his body and he wants you to reach out and tell his stories. True account of restaurant owner missionary who told Muslims Bible stories about God's power and saw them and their wives believe in Yeshua. Tell stories to postmoderns, who are more open to hearing something from you if...

How is a return to telling word of mouth stories from God's Word an integral part of Torah, Jewish roots, and the prophetic restoration message? Five reasons for getting back to this. Torah was originally communicated orally.Telling the story of the Exodus, Haggadah, at Passover. Gospels were originally communicated orally, primarily as stories. Yeshua always told stories to mixed crowds and discipleship means imitating him. Reaching the massive niche market of nonliterate people in North...

Three reasons why most people don't preach the Gospel: don't know how, expect professionals to do it, or don't have any nonreligious friends. How telling God's stories, word of mouth, is the solution to this problem. How is someone saved and changed from the inside out? How is a culture transformed? By hearing God's Word, God's stories, and believing it. Breakdown of parallels between God's word and swords, snow, and seeds, and what happens when you tell a story from the Scriptures. Story...

How do you get God's word to stick in people's minds and change their lives? Shocking statistics from the Barna Group: roughly half of people claiming to be Christians believe that Satan doesn't exist, Jesus sinned, and the Holy Spirit isn't real. Third of people say that the Bible is true, and the Quran and book of Mormon. People are bombarded with truth claims, everybody's preaching to them through the media. How do we punch through the clutter? Malcolm Gladwell in The Tipping Point says,...

What a wind undermining the sand granules under a water bottle until it tips has to teach you about how to change the world. Foundational undermining and the sudden gradual shift. Sapping, strategic digging under wall in medieval castles and bulwarks until collapse. In Jeremiah's prophetic call, plucking up breaking down destroying and overthrowing prededed building and planting. Yeshua taught that a person must be emptied before they can be filled. Applies individually, social, politically,...

Over half of Scripture is written in story form. And the other sections have stories behind them. Do you read, discuss, and teach them in context, or chop and sew them into a horrifying Frankensteinish theological monster? What Sesame Street and the children's blurb before the sermon has to teach you. Surprising statistics concerning Biblical illiteracy in North America and what to do about it.

Half of North Americans don't read books. Not that they can't, they don't. Two-third of people around the world don't read books. How are you going to communicate Yeshua's story to them? How are you going to disciple them? Story from Truth that Sticks by Avery Willis about Scott the Stonemason.

Starts & Stops Toward A Perfect World - Shemini Atzeret Talk

com First revolutionary talk in a string on the power of telling the stories of Scripture word of mouth to change the world. True story of Red and Viv, i.e. Adam and Eve, and the tribe they started and how they would stop every seven days to tell the stories of how they got there, why there was evil in the world, and why weeds grew in the fields. True story of a virgin teenager having a baby boy that grew up to start a movement by sending his disciples to tell his stories to the world....

True story of diverse multilingual Yeshua community developing creative solution with consensus support instead of splintering. From Acts of the Apostles, chapter 6. Imagine a country with no welfare system, pension plans, and life insurance. Plight of widows. Care of widows in the Torah and the early Yeshua movement. Negative spindoctors. Relate to needs not being met, marginalization as a minority, specializing in strenths, delegating tasks, new job. Embracing diversity. Growth pains and...

What lessons does starting a campfire offer for starting a movement and changing the world? Gather small dry sticks, bring them together but don't crowd them, introduce the fire into the group but don't breathe too hard on it, allow it to start naturally, as the fire grows add larger and larger sticks and logs. Shaul and Barnaba travelled through Asia Minor in modern day Turkey as firestarters, going into synagogues with the fire of the message of Mashiach.

True story of an administrator jumping a cultural barrier and starting a revolution, and a clash between an ex-wizard and apostle. Crises, trouble, and opposition can be your best friends if responded to correctly, force you to grow, break out, change. Don't pigeonhole people. You're bigger than your job. The adventure is over the wall. People are watchers and followers. Our mission is to get people watching and following Yeshua. We have a hard time receiving something for free. Pray for...

True story about Yeshua's last meal with his disciples and final instructions to them before being taken up. Forty day romance. The man who can fly. Short time with loved one. Unanswered questions. Tips on conversational. Unhealthy obsession with instant success, chronologies, and timing in general. The law of growing influence. We need to be empowered to accomplish the mission. Yeshua is alive! He talks about God's Kingdom, not Christianity. He is returning physically. He's restoring the...

True story about Yeshua's disciples enjoying a barbequed breakfast of fish and toast with him after he was raised from the dead. Eating and drinking together as social ritual. Yeshua is playful, mysterious, smiling, and optimistic when he looks at his people. Asking the tough missional questions. What does it look like to throw our nets on the other side of the boat as we reach out to our city?

Story about Yeshua breaking a social taboo and watching the dirty camel-poop-encrusted feet of his disciples. Practical applications and challenges. Story from Yochanan 13.

True story about God killing a husband and wife for lying to his face. People getting along, sharing, happy, Sesame Street would be so proud. Like an action film or thriller. Ad hoc solutions. Partners in crime. Esp from God. Awe. Human capacity for selflessness or selfishness. Good deeds with a bad heart. Satan can fill the hearts of believers. Christians and Messianics can be demonically influenced. Warning, in a community of recovering sinners you will be wronged and hurt at times. God's...

Story of Moses praying for a new leader and comissioning Joshua in front of the nation. Lessons in mentoring, leadership, vision, and influence. Snapshot of Mashiach from life of Yehoshua. Story from Numbers 27, parashat Pinchas.

Yeshua's story about the strict religious snob and the sorry crooked taxman. God pays attention to prayer, accepts dirty hurting messed-up broken people when they apologize and ask for help. Poetry from a prophet about God being way up there and way down there with the guy in the gutter. God does takedowns on proud people. God offers a helping hand to the low. What we do in Yeshua's countercultural kingdom. Overview of Leviticus 16-20 and Luke 18-20. Lessons from Yom Kippur, the Day of...