We Center On Jesus

In 1987, as I was sleeping on a floor in a Korean home in Inchon, God told me to write a book and then the next night God showed me what to put in the book (click here to read the book). A few days later, God told me to go to the Dean of the Graduate School of Theology at ORU, Dr. Paul Chappell ( a man with 3 PhDs) when I got back to the US in a few weeks and tell him that I wanted to change my major and use the book as my Master's Thesis. I was then supposed to let Dr. Chappell select my new major. When I got home Dr. Chappell responded to my request that the major that would work best to utilize the book as a Master's Thesis was called Pentecostal-Charismatic Studies. The first year I was in graduate school, I was a Master of Divinity major. and the only course I avoided was the one in Theology. I had a very poor opinion of Theology and most Theologians, because some of the dumb opinions they expressed about God. The new major sounded fine and I enrolled in the appropriate courses. About a month later, I realized that the major was identical to the course requirements for the Theology Major, with the exception of one course. I wondered what I had done wrong, because I felt like God was punishing me. Also, the Theology Major was one of the degrees they called an Academic Degree for people who were planning of working on a PhD and I certainly had no desire for harder course work. The only good side I could see was that having taken Greek the first year, God had told me in August of 87 that I had to "now learn My language" and I understood God was talking about Hebrew. Dr. Chappell allowed me to substitute Hebrew for the Theological German that was required for the Major, so now Hebrew could now count towards my degree.

Towards the end of the fall semester in 87, God started growing me again. I knew from Greek that the word 'Theology' was from 2 Greek words that conveyed the idea of "what man said about God". In one of my Theology courses, I was reminded repeatedly that Jesus was fully man. At that time there was no mention in Theology books or by professors that Jesus was a Theologian and yet God had me connect the two that Jesus, fully man, when he talked about God, He was a Theologian. I kept asking people and no one would support the idea until one day we had a visiting lecturer who spoke Greek like we speak English and had obtained his PhD in Theology at the University in Antioch. I asked him, "What do you think of Jesus as a Theologian?" I will never forget his response as he kissed his fingers and flung them in the air and said in his accented voice, "Jesus is Theologian par excellence!"

I questioned God about how much we could rely just on Jesus' teachings, since all preachers seem to need to quote other New Testament writers, such as Paul. In the spring of 88, as I was trying to work with a full load of courses, God had me spend weeks in a quite place in the library and search every word of Jesus in the gospels. I had a separate piece of paper for every subject that Theologians usually cover such as End Times, the Holy Spirit, God, man, etc. and I would write down the scripture on the correct page. Some pages had to go to 2 and 3 pages. YES, I DISCOVERED THAT JESUS COVERED EVERY SUBJECT. The rest of that year I grew in understanding and begin defending the position that as a Christian, we could rely on Jesus 100%. As I begin making plans to start our Church the end of that year, and I knew that our Church would center on Jesus, it became obvious that the name of the Church should be Jesus Center.

People would help me grow by challenging me with questions:

"What about God?" I would remind them that when you center on Jesus, that Jesus main purpose in coming was to lead people to God. Jesus quoted the Old Testament over 100 times.

"What about the Holy Spirit?" Again, I would remind them that it was Jesus that promised the Holy Spirit and described what the Holy Spirit would do in John 14 and 16 and Acts 1.

"What about Paul and others?" This response is provided by Acts 17:11 (NIV) where we read "Now the Bereans were of more noble character than the Thessalonians, for they received the message with great eagerness and examined the Scriptures every day to see if what Paul said was true." If what Paul wrote lines up with what God or Jesus taught, then we should support it. Otherwise, we might consider that it could be the expression of a personal opinion. We should use the same guide line for other men and women of God both in the Bible and even those alive today. Check to see if what is siad lines up with what God and Jesus teach.

Our Church is called Jesus Center because WE CENTER ON JESUS!

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