My Revelations

So, aparently you are suppose to keep your blogs on the short side because it is a blog. However, I simply do not have the patience to do that so this one might be abit long. The following is most of the rest of my "Invitation to Share the Vision." It is bolded to set it apart so that I might add a bit more to it. :)

Revelation #1 Home-schooling – Like I mentioned before we both went to public schools and were looking forward to our children doing the same. By the time we had to decide, I was looking forward to one day seeing my two boys excelling on the football field or baseball diamond. When Chelsey went to put Ryan into kindergarten, she had a real bad feeling come over her, and she got absolutely no help from anybody as to what she needed to do. She turned right around and brought him home, called my mom over and took me to dinner to explain her actions. We have been home schooling ever since. Yeah, I am a teacher, and let me tell you, there is no way my kids are getting anywhere near those kids. If you don’t home school, that’s ok. I believe in a good, better, best mentality, and I feel very strongly, now, that this is what is best for my kids.


Revelation #2 “I really am the head of my household?” I had heard about this but was afraid to ask, especially with the evils of feminism running rampant in America. I figured that if I wanted my marriage to last I had better cater to her. Guess who taught me about my role in the family – “her”. She was searching out her role in the family and in doing so discovered mine. She studied biblical submission and basically told me that Eve’s curse would not rule this family and that she would willingly let me be the head of the house if I wanted it. In studying it myself, I realized that I had better step up in this area cuz it’s all on me. Which, along with revelation #3, also leads into revelation #4.

Revelation #3 Don’t always believe the status quo. – As we have switched over to a Levitical organic diet, we have discovered many great truths that according to this world are not true. There is a cure for cancer and diabetes and IBS. There is simply so much money tied up into it that “Big Pharmaceutical” and the FDA don’t want you to accept this truth and instead continue to fill their pockets with your health premiums and tax dollars through government grants, for one example. The church has also been fed these lies from the world and it saddens me. I actually sat in a meeting about youth camp being at the beach and the morality of being around all of those scantily clad women and all I got was, “boys will be boys.” How sad. Boys will be what you groom them to be. This also leads into revelation #4.

Revelation #4 “The Church” – As I mentioned earlier, this was a process. It started about three years ago and has just been growing ever since. Let me go ahead and share with you my frustrations. The main one is basically where the focus seems to be for most churches, the breaking up of the family. The church is supposed to be about family and yet from the second they enter the building they are split up. Many also seem to be focused on children to a disproportionate degree. I have greatly struggled with this from my youth ministry background, but it basically gets children “saved” only to tell them to NOT honor their “unsaved” parents, which is the ONE role of children to "Honor your father and mother." (Exodus 20:12 one of the Ten Commandments by the way). Also, to pull from Revelation #3, “the church is about saving people.” NOPE, the “church” is supposed to be about discipling the believers. The believers are to witness to people, and then bring them to “church” to be discipled once they are saved. I have grown weary seeing churches pump all kinds of money into Youth programs, while men struggle with their roles in society. I feel very strongly that ministry should be geared towards men, not kids. I have heard for years that if you save a child you have roughly a 13-20 percent chance of saving the family, and about a 34 percent chance of saving the family if you save the wife. That percentage jumps up to around 90 percent or so if you save the father. With these ratios why is it that we target kids instead of men?

So, this is what everything in my life right now is founded on, and what this site promotes. This blog will eventually expound on these issues in the coming months.

I also included with this an invitation to join me in starting a home church. That didn't go so well. Aparently the idea was too radical at the time. (If any of you men are reading this, the invitation is still open.)

As of now though we are meeting with one other incredible family that shares the vision of what the first church was like and how it "should" still be conducted today.