One Lord, One faith, One Baptism... Ephesians 4:5
work in progress....I remember so vividly, sitting on a pew, in the middle of the congregation and the way my eyes fell onto the pages of scripture in my lap, "One faith" Ephesians 4:5.
Twenty one years old, destroyed, hopeless, having recently been flown in from Huntington Beach, California, I found myself sitting in a little country church in Pocahontas, Arkansas, every time the doors were open. Listening, just listening, as a country preacher preached more truth than I had ever been exposed to in the many and varied church settings I had been in from an early age.
One exception was a visit to the Church of the Nazarene with my next door neighbor and playmate, Nikki Fischer. I recall the preacher saying something that caused me to stop and think about whether or not I truly believed or could believe, that Jesus is God's only begotten Son.
I am so thankful for that simple experience that I had long since forgotten about until just a few years ago as I came full circle and believed again on the true identity of the Lord's Christ."
As the preacher preached, everything faded into the background as I looked at the page. One faith, stillness, deep thought, one faith... it hit me. But of course, of course there is only one faith! That would only make sense. Truth always makes sense.
Powerful, revelatory, beautiful. I saw it and have never unseen it. That is my prayer for you. You who are strangers and pilgrims in this world and in search of a city whose builder and maker is God, that you too would see truth here that you may have not seen or heard before and that you will never unsee it.
That country preacher was one of five brothers who all preached the Acts 2:38-39 message of obedience to the Gospel. Joel Gray, whose mother prayed for sixteen years before finding a preacher who would baptize her in the Name of Jesus Christ instead of titles. The big man with huge hands who played a banjo and who baptized me into the NAME of Jesus Christ for the remission of my sins. The preacher who would often say after driving home a powerful point in scripture, "Don't take my word for it. Look it up for yourself." This is the man I thank God for sending into my life. His admonishment to the congregation to search the scriptures is the best advice any good preacher could give.
Early believers didn't even take what Paul said to heart before searching it out for themselves.
These early Christian converts were praised for not taking Paul at face value before proving what he said was true!
May you see truth here that you will never unsee. You are personally responsible for working out your own salvation with fear and trembling. You are personally responsible for taking heed and seeing that no man deceive you, by any means. Last, be aware that the devil can't deceive you with obvious error, through obvious false prophets, Roman catholicics, Buddists, Televangelists, etc., but through men you assume are iron clad grounded in the faith.
Viewing this site requires taking a deep breath and conscientiously removing all doctrinal lens or goggles.
Viewing this site and really seeing what we are trying to say requires calming down, laying pride aside and trusting the promise of the Holy Ghost -to guide you into all truth.
Please join me in a few moments of breathing deeply. Please pause and take a deep breath and release. Now pause and take several deep breaths and several full exhales.
Take time to enjoy the breath of life God gave you by just breathing deeply in and deeply out, thanking God for His Spirit that lives inside of you if you have been born again. Thank Him for the promise. Thank Him that the Holy Ghost will guide you and is right now guiding you, further on your journey into all truth.
There are things that Jesus hates. Did you know He praised His early followers for hating the things he hates?
Again, breathe in as deeply as you can before exhaling all of the way out.
Breathe again, all the way in, feeling the air fill your lungs as you relax deeply and then release as much tension as possible on the exhale.
Thank you God for the breath of life that you breathed into Adam and that you are breathing into me right now, in this very moment. Breathe deeply in and out as you thank God for precious, priceless truth. Truth is worth dying for.
Thank you God. Thank you for the breath of life. Deep breath, thank you for truth God. I give thanks at the remembrance of your holiness.
It feels so good to breathe. It feels so good to just
breathe. Take time to listen to and sing the song. Hear yourself sing!
Did you take time to listen and sing along?
Let's pray to the Father in the Name of His dear Son.
Deeply breathe in.
Deeply breathe out, blowing the air out until you need another deep breath...
Again.
Ask the Lord to open your eyes that you might behold wondrous things, and believe He will answer.
Deep breath in...
Complete exhale out.
It's okay. God is here. It's okay to read any material, including writings that may contradict what you thought was true your whole life, if the writings are based in a love of scripture, which is a love of the truth.
God's Word is truth. Jesus prayed to his Father to sanctify his disciples with the Father's truth, saying "Thy word is truth."
We dedicate these digital pages to the One who gently, patiently, pryed our eyes open over the course of decades, even when we were fearful of inquiring -the Father of our Lord, who alone is able to open blind eyes and feed thousands with just a few loaves and fishes. To wit that God was *in Christ, reconciling the world unto Himself. And to the Son of the Father who loved His Father and was loved by His Father and always honored His Father, giving Him glory for all of the mighty works he was enabled to do:
So Jesus replied, "Truly, truly, I tell you, the Son can do nothing by Himself, unless He sees the Father doing it. For whatever the Father does, the Son also does. John 5:19
But if I am doing them, even though you do not believe Me, believe the works themselves, so that you may know and understand that the Father is in Me, and I am in the Father." John 10:38
I have not spoken on My own, but the Father who sent Me has commanded Me what to say and how to say it. John 12:49
Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me--or at least believe on account of the works themselves. John 14:11
On that day you will know that I am in My Father, and you are in Me, and I am in you. John 14:20
Whoever does not love Me does not keep My words. The word that you hear is not My own, but it is from the Father who sent Me. John 14:24
Last we dedicate these pages to you, dear reader, you who have a sincere burden for the lost as well as for the assembly of saints and realize that these burdens are inextricably linked.
This effort is for you who love Jesus and His body, you who have scratched your head more than a time or two and wondered "What's wrong with this picture?" and then asked, "How can it be made better?" "How do we see a full manifestation of the apostles' doctrine and a more complete alignment of His body to the doctrine?"
If you find anything on the following pages that contradicts the scriptures, by all means, please inform us.
You may reach Don or Lori Silva via e-mail: onefaith (at) gmail (dot) com
Without further adieu...
Jerusalem 1st Century AD, the faith is delivered to the saints, initially, all devout Jews.
Only later did those devout men and women realize that the Gospel of repentance and remission of sins would be extended to the Gentiles and preached in all nations before the end.
Twelve, Jewish apostles, weren't sent to "make the world a better place" but to turn the world upside down preaching the God given revelation of Peter who identified the Lord as...
JESUS The CHRIST
...The Gospel was exploding, enter controlled opposition and an assault on the Rock, an assault and war that rages against the rock of the true identity of Jesus the Christ, to this day. Matthew 16:6-20
And Saul... straightway he preached Christ in the synagogues, that he is the...
...And Philip said, If thou believest with all thine heart, thou mayest. And he answered and said, I believe that Jesus Christ is the...
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"That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ." I John 1:3
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And now why tarriest thou? Arise, and be baptized, and wash away thy sins, calling on the NAME of the Lord. Acts 22:16; Revelation 1:5;5:9
Big Ideas and Profound Truths
"No force on earth can stop an idea whose time has come." - Victor Hugo
#1 Jesus taught the Shema to be the 1st of all the commandments and neither he, nor his apostles, nor his mother, Mary, knew anything about the belief orginating in Babylon called "the trinity" which Jews to this day rightfully reject and mistakenly associate with Jesus!
Jesus, nor his apostles, nor Mary, nor any other New Testament believers were trinitarians.
The whole world needs to know and understand the significance of the Shema and yet hardly any Jews seem to have a clue that Jesus taught it, let alone that Jesus taught it to be the first of all the commandments.
And the second is like unto it. "Love thy neighbor as thyself." On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. Mark 12:29; Matthew 22
The Everlasting Gospel of JESUS CHRIST
Ancient Blueprint for Local Assembly with Jesus alone as head
There are believers throughout the U.S. and abroad who have repented and desire to be baptized in JESUS' Name who are having a hard time finding Godly men willing to baptize them without conditions above and beyond repentance and believing with all of their heart that Jesus Christ is the Son of God.
If you are a devout man, able and willing to baptize in water by full immersion, in the Name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins(Acts 2:38-39), please let us know where you are located.
If you are sincere about working for the LORD, or in search of local discipleship or fellowship, please reach out. The night comes when no man can work.
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Grace be with you, mercy, and peace, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love. II John 3.