The walls of a church were never meant to be the boundaries of its mission. As Dr. Wendel Dandridge reminds us, the building is not the body and the body is not confined to brick, mortar or Sunday morning routines. If CNN is right and tens of thousands of churches may close or be repurposed, then perhaps this is not a crisis to fear but a calling to hear.
Watch the video of Dr. Dandridge on Youtube - Please.
This moment invites every pastor, every congregation and every believer to pray beyond the box of a church. To expand the imagination of what ministry looks like. To remember that Christianity has always been strongest when it steps into the streets, the homes, the neighborhoods and the lives of the people it serves.
The traditional church may be changing, but the mission of Christ has never been more alive. This is a time for merging, reorganizing, repurposing, and returning to the community‑centered heartbeat that built the early church and sustained generations of believers. The question is not whether the church will survive, but whether we will allow it to evolve into the form God is calling it to take now.
It's time to evolve from Agricultural Age to Information Age worship and service to God. Divinity broadcast digitally.
From the Youtube Page
"Is the traditional church dying—or is Christianity being reorganized?
A recent CNN article projects that as many as 100,000 churches could close or be repurposed over the next decade. But what if this isn’t simply the death of Christianity? What if we’re witnessing the reorganization of Christianity in America?
In this episode of From the Desk of Dr. Dandridge, I offer my commentary on the CNN report and explore what the changing landscape of American Christianity means for churches, pastors, congregations, and communities.
I’ll discuss why declining attendance, changing demographics, financial pressures, and shifting cultural expectations are forcing us to reconsider what we mean when we say “church.”
And I’ll ask a difficult question:
What if the traditional church has died—but the mission of the church is still very much alive?
Perhaps the answer isn’t simply to save declining churches. Perhaps it’s time for churches to merge, reorganize, repurpose their buildings, and return to the community-centered mission that has always been at the heart of Christianity.
This isn’t a conversation about abandoning faith. It’s a conversation about reimagining how faith is practiced and lived in a changing America.
What do you think? Is the traditional church dying, or is it being transformed?
#Church#Christianity#ChurchDecline#FutureOfTheChurch#AmericanChristianity#ChurchReorganization#Faith#DrWendelDandridge "
I am writing this blog entry to suggest to the Mormon Church that they use Ibogaine to solve the drug addiction problem members of their church and community are dealing with. It's the right thing to do. To solve the problem of drug addition, it is wise to use nature's solution to crack, cocaine and many other health problems, Ibogaine.
As an old hippie from the 60's I am aware of the drug problem in the USA. Thanks to the work of Howard Lotsof, Norma Alexander and others, we can fix this. The heroic Americancivil rights activist since the 1960's,Dana Beal, has worked for decades with many other Ibogaine advocatesto bring thispatentedsolution to the public. The video below is Dana speaking to raise awareness for an Ibogaine clinic opening in Afghanistan.
I've been going to Mormon Churches periodically over the last 5 years with well underlined copies of the books that make up the Mormon Bible, which of course includes the KJV of the bible too. I am not qualified to be a Mormon due to some fundamental lifestyle conditions, cannabis, computers, clothes and coffee. I especially appreciated them when I had a grand mal seizure this year. [I had a second set of seizures strong enough to have me awaken in the hospital in 2018.] Our prayers together helped me heal.
The Mormon Church, as does the rest of the world, has an opportunity to implement a solution to the problem of drug addiction as well as many other illnesses. How? By combining prayer and the God given solution to prescription drugs, crack, cocaine and other addictive substances, Ibogaine.
The government would have a hard time denying the Church the ability to reach as latter day saints to help heal the sick. The under religious freedom - Articles of Faith - #11 - #7 too), Church Missionaries will be able to help save people from drug companies and cartels who are making billions, make that over a trillion dollars, by keeping people addicted to toxic drugs like oxycontin or street drugs crack and cocaine. Ibogaine even helps with other health conditions.
TheIbogaine solution is from an African plant used in rituals, Tabernathe Iboga.Ibogaine opens the mind and some say soul to interrupt addictions so that healing, constructive, positive thoughts and actions can take their place.
There are plenty of biblical references to support this course of action to solve the problem of drug addictions. Here's a few I found in both the Book of Mormon and Doctrine and Covenants which is the foundation for this idea.
Doctrine and Covenants 116: [Ibogaine use has been described as a spiritual experience, getting back to the root "Adam shall come to visit his people."]
1SPRINGHill is named by the LordAdam-ondi-Ahman,
because, said he, it is the place whereAdamshall
come to visit his people, or the Ancient of Days shall sit, as spoken of by
Daniel the prophet.
Doctrine and Covenants 42:43: [Healing with herbs is instructed "shall benourishedwith all tenderness, with herbs and mildfood."]
43 And whosoever among you aresick, and have not faith to be healed,
but believe, shall benourishedwith all tenderness, with herbs and
mildfood, and that not by the
hand of an enemy.
2 Nephi 2:14: [God has given us many solutions to our problems, "both tings to act and things to be acted upon."]
14 And now, my sons, I speak unto you these
things for your profit andlearning;
for there is a God, and he hathcreatedall things, both the heavens and the
earth, and all things that in them are, both things to act and things to beactedupon.
Mosiah 3:6: [What Ibogaine and prayer does, "cast out devils, or the evil spirits"!]
6. And he shall cast out devils, or the evil spirits which dwell in the hearts of the children of men.
Mosiah 9:9: [Iboga is a plant made by God, like all plants "all manner of
seeds" means just that. We've made nature, which is the Lord's Will illegal and wonder why we have so many problems.]
9 And we began to till the ground, yea,
even with all manner of seeds, with seeds of corn, and of wheat, and of barley, and with neas,
and with sheum, and with seeds of all manner of fruits; and we did begin to multiply and prosper in the land.
Doctrine and Covenants 59:17-18: [Iboga is one of 'the good things which come of the earth' 'made for the benefit and the use of man' 'to gladden the heart'.]
17 Yea, and the herb, and thegoodthings which come of the earth, whether for food or forraiment, or for
houses, or for barns, or for orchards, or for gardens, or for vineyards;
18 Yea, all things which come of the earth, in
the season thereof, are made for thebenefitand theuseof man, both to please the eye and togladdenthe
heart;
10 And again,
verily I say unto you, all wholesomeherbsGod hath ordained for the constitution, nature, and use
of man—
11 Every herb in the season thereof, and every
fruit in the season thereof; all these to be used withprudenceandthanksgiving. --- Though I bear the Mark of Cain, I know I'm right about this application of Ibogaine to the Salt Lake City (and other places) drug problem, if the Church wants to solve the problem. The church member with the cut out bible which housed his drug inventory for a spell did not get past my attention in the Nat. Geo. piece. The process entails using what the Lord gave us that we already have mountains of proof works, Ibogaine, combine it with prayer and meditation (prayertation) for, and if the person is willing, with the one who is healing. Step one is, as always, prayer and listening for the Lord's guidance. If so guided, step two is to implement the divinely created and spiritually empowered Ibogaine tool, in a controlled environment, working with professionals and the Mormon Priesthood and other Church members, to help souls break addictions and replace them with the direct experience of overcoming. As the founder of and a conductor on the Computer Underground Railroad, I'll be sharing this insight with others and publish refinements and updates on this blog. Please leave your thoughts in the comments section below. Lord bless you and yours and ours.
