BUILDING THE DREAM

BUILDING THE DREAM


Jacob was a DREAMER=he
Told his brothers=he was
His Father's FAVORITE


But his brothers RESENTED him=
Threw him into a cistern=and
SOLD him into slavery


“They said to one another=
'Here comes that mater DREAMER'” Genesis37:19


Sibling RIVALRY taken to the extreme=
The story of Joseph and his brothers
Was a FORESHADOWING=
Of what was to HAPPEN
In Jesus' life


Jesus was that MASTERFUL DREAMER=
Who dreamed of a LIFE of God
And LOVE for all


And we KNOW how he was treated=
What was to happen on earth


BUILDING a life of God=one God=
ONE LIFE of love for all
BUILDING THE DREAM!


“And afterward
I will poor out my SPIRIT
On all people


Your sons and daughters
Will PROPHESY
Your old men
Will dream DREAMS


Your young men
Will see VISIONS” Joel 2:28 and Acts 2:17


Jesus CHALLENGES us
To work on our INNER SOULS
To BECOME the potential people
That we could be


Jesus had a VISION
For this world
To BUILD a life=to build
A world FULL OF LOVE


But Jesus=the DREAMER=as Joseph
Was before him=and Martin Luther King
And the KENNEDYS were after him


Were MISUNDERSTOOD and resented=
But that did NOT stop them
From working to make their VISIONS=
A REALITY in this world


Building the DREAM=building
ON THE VISION


“A time to kill
A TIME to heal


A time to tear down
And a TIME TO BUILD” Ecclesiastes 3:3


“And I tell you
That you are Peter
And on this ROCK


I will BUILD my church
And the gates of Hades
Will NOT overcome it” Matthew 16:18


“Therefore=ENCOURAGE one another
And BUILD each other up


Just as in fact you
ARE DOING” 1 Thessalonians 5:11


I CAN'T BELIEVE that Jesus' DREAM
Of ONE CHURCH=has turned into over 40,000
Christian churches


I believe he WANTED ONE CHURCH
BUILT out of love=OUT of LOVE
Of God=and LOVE of others=TOTALLY
INCLUSIVE=and I am making that
MY DREAM


ONE CHURCH FOR GOD
ONE CHURCH for all!


Jesus CALLS us to work
With GRACE to bring GOD'S DREAM
To fulfillment


Make Jesus' dream YOUR DREAM=
One life=one love=TOTALLY INCLUSIVE
Of God's LOVE for all people


Let us BRING JESUS' DREAM
To fulfillment=BUILD THE DREAM


In Jesus' name and the name of OUR GLORIOUS GOD the Father


Robert P. Wallman
3-1-18




Ps INSPIRED by an article in LIVING FAITH MAGAZINE by Sr. Chris Koellhoffer, I.H.M.