My Identity
I have to recognize who I am everyday. I am not my own possession and don't represent only me. But I am part of a community. A community that can not be separated. Its bound together in Love. This community also doesn't represent itself. This community is not just in my town, a building or a country. This community can not bee fully seen with the naked eye. You may capture a glimpse in things seen in the physical but in spirit it's as bright as the noonday sun. I am hidden in community and dead to self. Though Im not dead physically I am dead to a world I once knew. My spirit couldn't be more alive and thriving. I am a believer, a follower, an imitator of this community. Many can not grasp this community, many do not want to and many never will. I boast in this community and speak only of It. This communities wall can not be breached. They can not be scaled. This community is the Strong Tower and can not be shaken. It does not fight its battles in fields, on the seas or in the sky. It fights in the hearts and minds of men and spirits. This community is the only worth dying for, worth living for. This community I hold so dear is the only that will stand and forever be united. This community was not founded on men or for men but for the community itself. For this community I am a citizen and an ambassador. This community does not have laws on stones or paper, but is written on the hearts of men. As much as people would like me not to speak of this community, my lips will never cease to proclaim It. I know one day when they shatter my heart they will only find this passion, this love of The Community.
-Daniel W. Flowers-
Books
Release of the Spirit by Watchman Nee
The Normal Christian Life by Watchman Nee
The Normal Christian Church Life by Watchman Nee
Evil and the Justice of God by N.T Wright
Don't Waste Your Life by John Piper
The Upside Down Kingdom by Donald B. Kraybill
Breaking the Code by Bruce Metzger
Jesus Freaks 1&;2 by DC Talk
By Their Blood by James & Marti Hefley
God is Not by D. Brent Laytham
2 Die 4 by Ryan Dobson
The Cost of Discipleship by Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Jesus and Empire by Richard A. Horsley
The Way I was Made by Chris Tomlin
The Christian Woman Set Free by Gene Edwards
The Myth of A Christian Nation Gregory A. Boyd
Straight Talk to Elders by Frank Viola
Rethinking the Wineskin by Frank Viola
Gathering In Homes by Frank Viola
Jesus Has Left the Building by Veira
The Way We Were by Fisher Humphreys
Why Not Women? by L. Cunningham & D.J Hamilton
Why Christian Kids Rebel by Tim Kimmel
Church History In Plain Language by Bruce L. Shelley
Prayer, The Cry For the Kingdom by Stanley J. Grenz
