Creepy?

Perhaps now I now what it means for Christians near and far, in times past and present, to share one mind, that is, to have the mind of Christ.

When hearing Biblical preaching, teaching, and reading, I sometimes have this deep connection with the preacher so much so that I hear my own words coming forth from another's mouth, or know what preacher is going to saw before he says it. It's kinda creepy in a way, but perhaps that is what is meant by us "having the same mind".

Perhaps the common denominator is the preaching of the gospel of the cross. Regardless of vocabulary, language, emphasis or style of expression, the message is the same. And no matter what the topic, whether it is prayer, or the gospel, or love, or missions, it is the same!

It just resonates in me, in complete agreement with Scripture. It's this remarkable feeling I get, that is more than a feeling. It's an identification. And it's not merely emotions because it composes of the whole being, a united being, knitted together with the body of Christ and Christ Himself.

When you read the words of Jesus, or Paul, or John, or even teachers past and present that repeated them, and you have a sense of the fulness of what they are saying, and when you read those words out loud, they are almost your own words. It that's kind of understanding, the rich, amazing, comprehensive, understanding.

It is not the fault of the mind that people are deceived. They are deceived in their whole complete being! Their emotions, their mind, their conscience, their actions- everything lines up to support their own self-deception. And they refuse the truth but choose to waddle in ignorance like a sow in the mire.

1 Corinthians 1 speaks of Paul desiring that the entire church to be of one mind, to think, to judge, and to speak, as if they were one body. How entirely impossible! Yet so entirely so, if one walks according to the spirit.

The Jerusalem congregation, the first and original Messianic community, were gathered in one body. That is a high impossibility, knowing that the nature of God's people is that they are very individual, vocal, and passionate about their difference so much so that today, they cannot even agree on a Constitution. They will never be mindless cult-like followers, blinded and ignorant. No, above all they are true to their own self and have intellectual integrity. They do not conform for the sake of conforming. That is the nature of Am Yisroel. And when that people are joined together in such a depth of unity, it is something far more than superficial cloning. It is far from socialism. It is richer, it is deeper, it is supernatural, and yet, very organic.