The Wild Olive Shoot Community


Once, there was a church that received a vision from God. They dared to do what no other church at that time had done. They grew, and spread across the nation. They called themselves the Blaze Community.

But it absorbed teachings from other groups, both Christian and Pagan. The vision became polluted. Rather than examining itself, the Blaze Community became proud and arrogant, standing alone as the true church, against all opposition.

The Blaze died to an ember as people left, fleeing tyranny, judgement, and forced austerity. Humbly, the Blaze Community leaders sought God's forgiveness and direction.

Now the community received a new vision. One of grace, love, forgiveness, and mercy. Aware that it had been given another chance by God, it renamed itself the Wild Olive Shoot Community, with the knowledge that God could pluck them out of the Cultivated Olive (the universal church) if they ever again fell away from the path to which God had called them.

Thursday 11 December 2014

More Than Air

Love. We need it more than air.
Love. Without it, why even breathe?
Love. Why is it so rare?
Love. Why is it so hard?
Love for parents
Love for partners
Love for children
Love for brothers and sisters
Love for friends
Love for strangers
Love for the lost
Love for the found
Love for the homeless
Love for the hungry
Love for the sick
Love for the outcast
Love respects
Love honours
Love supports
Love encourages
Love is patient
Love is kind
Love is humble
Love is gentle
Love gives freely
Love forgives freely
Love lifts up
Love holds up
Love is not greedy
Love does not horde what others need
Love does not manipulate or play games
Love does not abuse or bully
Love does not cross to the other side
Love does not turn its back
Love does not block its ears
Love does not shut its eyes
Love. We need love
Love to live for
Love to die for
Love
We need it more than air
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