Isn’t this Body life, Kingdom life, a life that embraces the concept that Jesus admonished us all to follow in.

“Love one another as I have Loved you”

“done in the sensitive dance of listening, encouraging, validating, admonishing, and responding to one another in Love – with the desire for spiritual oneness”

This is how I perceive the Love of Christ, and it is how I desire to express the Love that is ‘in’ me, and to Love as I have/are being Loved.

So much to ‘see’ here, thank you so very much for this beautiful ministry.

EXACTLY! That woman poured out all that she had on Jesus that day. She wept over his feet and dried them with her hair and then covered them with kisses. She even pour out a vile of perfume on Him and all that the Pharisee in the room could do was judge Jesus for letting a woman like that touch Him. Even the disciples chimed in saying, “Why this waste? That perfume could have been sold and the money give to the poor.” To the religious and self-righteous, extravagant love and transparency in another brings out the worst in them. Jesus poured Himself out for us on the cross because of His Father’s love for the world in Him. Should not we who are members of His body be doing the same, laying down our lives for one another with open hearts?
Paul wrote,
“Love is never tired of waiting; love is kind; love has no envy; love has no high opinion of itself, love has no pride; Love’s ways are ever fair, it takes no thought for itself; it is not quickly made angry, it takes no account of evil; It takes no pleasure in wrongdoing, but has joy in what is true; Love has the power of undergoing all things, having faith in all things, hoping all things.” (1Co 13:4-7 BBE)
Jeremiah observed, “The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?” (Jer 17:9 KJ2000). But God Ezekiel the answer:
“A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and you shall keep my judgments, and do them.” (Eze 36:26-27 KJ2000).
Only with a NEW heart and Jesus’ Spirit abiding in us can we know the fullness of what is our in the NEW Covenant and love others as HE loves. Adhering to the rules and morays of dead religion can not do this.
Lord, make us that NEW Creation with a complete transformation you have promised that we might be instruments of your love. Amen.

With this in mind, I have found that seeking true heart to heart fellowship with “Christians” is equally vulnerable and more often than not, disappointing. Sharing ones heart in truth and being open and vulnerable about ones shortcomings has proven dangerous more often than it has been a time of healing with others reciprocating in His love. Pamela wrote:

Within our communications it is beautiful to see “kissing” as a mutual act of engaging one another for an impartation of Christ within intimate, spiritual relationships that God gives to us; done in the sensitive dance of listening, encouraging, validating, admonishing, and responding to one another in Love – with the desire for spiritual oneness. It is this latter motivation that sets apart communicating in love, from mere “word rape”.

Well said, dear sister! IN Christ where there is neither Jew nor Gentile, bond nor free, male nor female, engaging with one another where nothing is hidden, that is, heart to heart communication should be common place. It is like washing one another’s feet with Jesus’ love. This is what true brothers and sisters in Christ do as we bear with one another’s burdens in His love. We engage with one another in honesty and vulnerability seeking the best for the other even when it costs us. Paul put it this way:

Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, you who are spiritual, restore such a one in the spirit of meekness; considering yourself, lest you also be tempted. Bear you one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ. For if a man thinks himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself. (Gal 6:1-3)

The “law of Christ” is love. This is what love demands of us. Where are we tempted? It is to look down our spiritual noses at the one who has dared to become vulnerable, as a self defense mechanism, hiding behind our religious fig leaves instead of truly getting down face to face and bearing one another’s burdens in His love.

I for one will not let the evil eye of another make me retreat behind a religious mask. Give me His kisses, dear saints, and I will continue to do the same with you.

Yes :) It was a pleasure to have met you this last weekend my new brother!