Chip Brogden CHURCH WITHOUT WALLS

The Last Exodus
by Chip Brogden
 
Many people are beginning to see the truth. They are beginning to see that there is a called-out remnant of people – a “Church in the Wilderness” that God is separating and calling out of Organized Religion. 
 
And this is not a mere reaction to being hurt, or rejected, or just being rebellious. It is actually the fulfillment of a prophetic sequence of events that has already been established in the Scriptures and in the history of the nation of Israel. It is the final calling out of a remnant of Overcomers who will bear the Testimony of Jesus and stand for the preeminence of Christ in all things as we prepare for the return of our Lord Jesus Christ and for the inevitable judgment upon those who claim to represent Him, but do not.
 
These Overcomers have been called by God to forsake “Churchianity” – not to forsake the joining and assembling of the members of Christ’s Body, but to forsake the hypocrisy of the religious spirits that masquerade as the Holy Spirit. They are not forsaking the people of God, they are forsaking the counterfeit, hypocritical worship of God that Jesus Himself condemned as “vain worship” – it does not meet the Lord’s Need or satisfy God’s heart. They have rejected a religious system that is led by blind leaders of the blind. They are simply following the command of Jesus to “leave them alone” (Mt. 15:14)...
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Reckoning and Reality
by Chip Brogden
 
There are many things to discover in Christ. In fact, to know Him is to know how little of Him we know. 
 
Do you read the Word of God? Do you read books on living the Christian life? Reading is not enough. Listening is not enough. Very little is accomplished through mere reading and listening; it takes some actual believing to go along with the reading and the listening!

“All things are possible to the one who believes.” No doubt you have read these Scriptures numerous times; but for them to become a living reality they must be spiritually seen and believed. And once they are sincerely believed then they will be acted upon...
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Raleigh NC 27624
USA

Hello Elaine,
 
Quick reminder to join us for this week’s online Bible study...
 
THE REMNANT PRINCIPLE IN DANIEL (Part 1)
Thursday, August 26, 2021
7:00 p.m. Eastern Time (New York)
 
Register here (if you haven't already):
https://chipbrogden.com/bible
 
Perilous times will come, and some will fall away from the faith… but God has preserved a Remnant - "what is left of a community after a catastrophe."
 
That "catastrophe" is the Institutional Church; the true Body of Christ is that Remnant.
 
Join us as we search for confirmation of this from the prophetic Scriptures.
 
I hope to "see" you online!
I am your brother,
Chip Brogden
https://ChipBrogden.com
 
PO Box 98733
Raleigh NC 27624
USA

 

Hello Elaine,
 
Quick reminder... happening tonight!
 
THE REMNANT PRINCIPLE IN DANIEL (Intro)
Thursday, August 19, 2021
7:00 p.m. Eastern Time (New York)
 
Register here (if you haven't already):
https://chipbrogden.com/bible
 
Even though we are living in the midst of what seems to be universal deception, complicated by a compromised and lukewarm institutional church blinded by a self-centered "bless me" false Gospel, God is indeed working beneath the surface and behind the scenes.
 
Join us tonight and be encouraged.
 
Remember: These online classes are free to attend, but your gift (of any amount) helps make these studies possible.
 
I hope to "see" you online tonight!
 

I am your brother,


Chip Brogden
https://ChipBrogden.com


PO Box 98733
Raleigh NC 27624
USA

Hello Elaine,
 
Is the devil winning... or does it only look that way sometimes?
 
While we cannot help but acknowledge the presence of evil, wickedness, violence, sin, sickness, and death in the world, we also profess our belief in the preeminence of Christ and His ultimate, final, comprehensive victory over all these things.
 
Nevertheless, we stand in the midst of the storm and sometimes wonder why the storm rages at all when Jesus could easily calm it with a word.
 
What is going on here?
 
Simply this: That God is teaching us how to overcome as Christ Himself overcame.
 
It is important that WE - the children of Adam, now born-again as the children of God - be the ones who overcome the Dragon.
 
And, even though we are living in the midst of what seems to be universal deception, complicated by a compromised and lukewarm institutional church blinded by a self-centered "bless me" false Gospel, God is indeed working beneath the surface and behind the scenes.
 
In fact, the encouraging thing to know is that these times are hardly "unprecedented" or "remarkable." We have seen similar times and seasons all through history, and God has continued to work and move despite every effort of men and fallen angels to thwart His Purpose.
 
What is God doing?
 
In a word, God is working with a Remnant. He is raising up Overcomers to represent His interests in the earth - a people who are called out all nations, then sent into all nations, who are in this world but not of this world.
 
And so, in spite of a general failure of the Whole, the Overcomers, as a part of the Whole, are fulfilling God’s original intent for the Ekklesia and for all creation.
 
If you want to make sense of what's going on... if you want to understand the signs of the times... if you want to know who you are and where you stand in these last days... if you want to be encouraged in knowing that you are not alone and that God is indeed working all things together for His good and for your good...
 
Then please  join us for this exciting new online study beginning this week:
 
THE REMNANT PRINCIPLE IN DANIEL (Intro)
Thursday, August 19, 2021
7:00 p.m. Eastern Time (New York)
 
Register here (if you haven't already):
https://chipbrogden.com/bible
 
These online classes are free to attend, but your gift (of any amount) helps make these studies possible.
 
 
Thank you for supporting Christ-centered teaching.

I am your brother,
Chip Brogden
https://ChipBrogden.com

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Raleigh NC 27624
USA

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An 11-part audio teaching series now available
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If only we could see the Body of Christ as a FAMILY instead of a religious institution or church building or nonprofit organization then I think it would resolve all of our concerns and issues around authority, discipline, organization, function, and how we are supposed to treat one another. 
 
I also think that if only we could see the spiritual family of God we would then see more clearly how our earthly families can and should function – marriage, parenting, etc. We would also understand why things go wrong in families and in our relationships with one another – and how to make them right again. We’ll find healing from our past negative experiences and stop carrying that baggage with us everywhere we go.
 
Listen to this teaching series as we seek answers to these questions – and many more!!

Just listen or download it from this link:
https://www.chipbrogden.com/family-of-god
 
Listen as you wish. Share as you like. Give as you can.
 
I am your brother,
 
Chip Brogden

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Bunn NC 27508
USA

Hello Elaine,
 
Join us tonight for...
 
THE FAMILY OF GOD (Part 10)
Thursday, July 29, 2021
7:00 p.m. Eastern Time (New York)
 
Register here (if you haven't already):
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What does it mean to be a Brother?
 
What does it mean to be a Sister?
 
And especially for those of us "outside the camp" - how can we "be" that even if we are not "face-to-face" with others?
 
We'll discuss all that and much more.
 
I hope to "see" you there!
 
I am your brother,

Chip Brogden
https://ChipBrogden.com
 

PO Box 282
Bunn NC 27508
USA

THE FAMILY OF GOD (Part 10)
Thursday, July 29, 2021
7:00 p.m. Eastern Time (New York)
 
Register here (if you haven't already):
https://chipbrogden.com/bible
 
These online classes are free to attend, but your gift (of any amount) helps make these studies possible.
 
Thank you for supporting Christ-centered teaching.
 
I am your brother,

Chip Brogden
https://ChipBrogden.com
 
PO Box 282
Bunn NC 27508
USA

The Seven-Fold Purpose of the Book of Revelation
by Chip Brogden
 
I believe that we can communicate seven distinct purposes, or a sevenfold purpose, for why the Book of Revelation was written.
 
Never, ever, ever forget… This is one of the issues that I have with a lot of Bible teachers. They automatically assume that all the blessings and rewards in the Book of Revelation go to believers, to Christians, to people who go to church, to people in God, to people who believe the Bible; and all of the punishment, all of the wrath is being poured out on those dirty, old, nasty, wicked, evil people who don’t believe in Jesus, who don’t go to church – and so this Book of Revelation is all about punishing everyone who’s not a Christian.
 
But I want you to remember – and never forget – that the context of this letter was written to people who were already believers in Jesus. Some were faithful and some were unfaithful. Some were committed and some were uncommitted. Some were on fire and some were lukewarm. And the main thrust of the Book reinforces what Peter had already warned them: that “judgment must begin in the house of the Lord...”
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 https://www.chipbrogden.com/seven-fold-purpose-book-of-revelation/

Hello Elaine,
 
At tonight's online Bible study, I'll share with you the difference between being "set free" and being "made free."
 
One word makes a big difference!
 
Join us for...
 
THE FAMILY OF GOD (Part 9)
Thursday, July 22, 2021
7:00 p.m. Eastern Time (New York)
 
Register here (if you haven't already):
https://chipbrogden.com/bible
 
I hope to "see" you there!


I am your brother,

Chip Brogden
https://ChipBrogden.com
 
PO Box 282
Bunn NC 27508
USA

Hello Elaine,
 
I knew a man who went to a Bible conference.
 
There, the speaker discussed how we are "free in Christ."
 
The man came out of the conference saying, "I'm free in Christ, so I can do whatever I want. Anything goes!"
 
Was he kidding around, just to see my reaction?
 
Or did he seriously think he was truly "free in Christ" to do whatever he wished?
 
My response to this situation is this:
 
"Freedom in Christ is not the freedom to DO as you please; it is the freedom FROM DOING as you please."
 
I don't need the kind of freedom that feeds my flesh and brings me more deeply into bondage; rather, I need the kind of freedom that makes me free from MYSELF - free from sin, self, and satan.
 
Free to reject all the solicitations to evil.
 
Free to say no to all temptation.
 
Free to walk in the Spirit and not obey the lusts of the flesh.
 
That's what "free in Christ" means.
 
The Bible says that "where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty."
 
And that is exactly the kind of liberty and freedom we can enjoy as sons and daughters of God.
 
Join us as we discuss the relational and familial aspects of liberty and freedom as children of God in this week's online Bible study...
 
THE FAMILY OF GOD (Part 9)
Thursday, July 22, 2021
7:00 p.m. Eastern Time (New York)
 
Register here (if you haven't already):
https://chipbrogden.com/bible
 
These online classes are free to attend, but your gift (large or small) helps make these studies possible.
 
Thank you for supporting Christ-centered teaching.
 

I am your brother,

Chip Brogden
https://ChipBrogden.com
 
PO Box 282
Bunn NC 27508
USA

Ephesus: The Loveless Church
by Chip Brogden
 
Jesus prioritizes relationship over religion. What is religion? When you’re going through the motions of doing things for God when you’ve forgotten Who you’re supposed to be in love with. It’s when you take the “work of the Lord” and make it more important than the Lord of the Work.
 
First Love is a very strong relationship-oriented word. All of the other things that He praised them for were religious words – works, and labor, and patience, and you can’t bear people that are evil. I mean they sound like very fundamentalist, denominational people. I realize this was almost 2,000 years ago – but people have not changed that much in 2,000 years, and they’re still motivated by the same things then that they are motivated by now, even though today we are more sophisticated and more refined, so to speak, in our motivations. But that same spirit of religion is desiring to lead us away from the simplicity of Christ...
READ MORE https://www.chipbrogden.com/ephesus-the-loveless-church/
   
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Hello Elaine,
 
We've looked at the prodigal son from the perspective of the father's love and grace.
 
We've even looked at the hypocrisy of the older brother.
 
But what of the younger brother?
 
The "prodigal" (wasteful) son.
 
The "lost" son.
 
See... the parable is not just for lost sinners who need to get saved.
 
It's also for lost Christians who need to lose their religion to find their faith.
 
For wandering sons and daughters who got bogged down in the pig pen of religion and need to be "born again... again!"
 
What was his downfall?
 
Simply this: He wanted the blessings and benefits of sonship (the inheritance) without any responsibility or relationship with his father.
 
In other words, he was trying to have his father's things without having his father.
 
That is yet another example of RELIGION at work.
 
But one day we woke up and realized that we needed to get out of the pig pen and find our Father again.
 
The way back to God, the Way Home, is by way of Relationship, not Religion.
 
Love, not Legalism.
 
Not a church-centered faith, but a Christ-centered faith.

Join us as we explore these things and apply them to our lives... 
 
THE FAMILY OF GOD (Part 8)
Thursday, July 15, 2021
7:00 p.m. Eastern Time (New York)
 
Register here (if you haven't already):
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These online classes are free to attend, but your gift (large or small) helps make these studies possible.

Thank you for supporting Christ-centered teaching.
 

I am your brother,
Chip Brogden
https://ChipBrogden.com
 
PO Box 282
Bunn NC 27508
USA

Once Saved, Always Saved?
by Chip Brogden
 
“I want to remind you, though you once knew this, that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who did not believe.” – Jude 5

If there’s ever a case where you could say, “This really sheds some reasonable doubt on this idea of once saved, always saved,” – here’s this Scripture! And it’s interesting that the letters of First John, Second John, Third John, and Jude really prepare the way so that you understand in Revelation, when the Lord appears in the midst, and He tells certain groups of people who claim to be working for Him and called by His name (and He does refer to them as ekklesias) that there are some things that they need to correct, and they need to repent; and if they don’t repent, then there’s going to be judgment, and there’s going to be consequences. There’s going to be some rewards for those who are faithful; and those who are not faithful run the risk of losing their reward.
 
I get all kinds of knee-jerk responses when I make a statement like, “Once Saved, Always Saved is a fake hope.” It’s a false hope. It’s something that religious people have grasped and held onto in order to justify a lack of spiritual fruitfulness, to take advantage of God’s grace, and to say, “Jesus did it all; therefore, I don’t have to do anything.” Or, “I’m not saved by my works; therefore, my works don’t matter.” That is a very poor religion; and it certainly is not a relationship with the Lord...
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Hello Elaine,
 
As we learned last week, Christ enjoys a special position of preeminence as "the only Begotten Son" of God.
 
But God (being God) devised a plan by which we could ALL become sons, daughters, and children of God.
 
We are not begotten in the same sense as Jesus; but we are adopted and born-again into the family of God.
 
What proof do we have that we are, in fact, children of God?
 
An interesting name for the Holy Spirit - not commonly used - is: "The Spirit of Adoption" (Rom. 8:15).
 
And according to Scripture, this Spirit of Adoption bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ (Rom. 8:16).
 
Pretty amazing, when you consider that we are all born into this world as "children of wrath" and "children of disobedience" (Eph. 2:3; Col. 3:6).
 
That's quite a transformation!
 
How does the Spirit work in us to create such a radical change and make us more like Christ?
 
Join us as we begin to explore the role of the Holy Spirit in...
 
THE FAMILY OF GOD (Part 7)
Thursday, July 8, 2021
7:00 p.m. Eastern Time (New York)
 
Register here (if you haven't already):
https://chipbrogden.com/bible
 
While we freely offer these online studies, we appreciate any help you can give us (as the Lord leads you) to offset the cost.
 
Thank you for supporting Christ-centered teaching.
 
I am your brother,

Chip Brogden
https://ChipBrogden.com
 
 
PO Box 282
Bunn NC 27508
USA

Three Simple Steps to
Understanding the Bible
by Chip Brogden
I remember that as a child I became interested in the Book of Revelation... 
 
When I was probably eight or nine years old, because some kid in my Sunday school class said that in the Book of Revelation there’s a verse that says, “The eagle and the bear will wage war, and the bear will defeat the eagle and rule over the earth.” His interpretation of this verse was that Russia would defeat the United States in World War III and we would all die under the Russians. This was at the height of the Cold War. I don’t know where he got his information from, but that motivated me to read the Book of Revelation at age eight or nine, whatever the time was, and look for that verse! I wanted to find that verse about the eagle and the bear waging war and the bear conquering the eagle. I thought that was pretty critical to my understanding of life!

You know what happened. I read through the Book of Revelation and not a single verse had anything to do with an eagle and a bear fighting. You may think, “Wow, that’s really strange!” But you know, people today do the exact same thing. They assume that the Bible says something. They assume that the Book of Revelation says something. They build teachings and doctrines around things that Scripture doesn’t say...
READ MORE https://www.chipbrogden.com/three-simple-steps-to-understanding-the-bible/
   

PO Box 282
Bunn NC 27508
USA

Hello Elaine,
 
Please join us for this week's online Bible study...

THE FAMILY OF GOD (Part 6)
Thursday, July 1, 2021
7:00 p.m. Eastern Time (New York)
 
Register here (if you haven't already):
https://chipbrogden.com/bible
 
I hope to "see" you there!
 

I am your brother,


Chip Brogden
https://ChipBrogden.com
 

PO Box 282
Bunn NC 27508
USA

Hello Elaine,
 
What, after all, is Jesus trying to teach us through His suffering and obedience?
 
He is showing us how to be a child/son/daughter of God – How to love and be loved.
 
What sustained Jesus through the terrible suffering He endured on the cross?
 
Scripture says that as a Son He learned obedience through the things He suffered.
 
Stated differently: The things He suffered taught Him to fully trust Himself to God’s Will.
 
In our suffering we, too, must learn to trust the Greatness and Goodness of God, for this is the safest place to be.
 
But it isn't all about suffering.
 
As sons and daughters of God we also experience unfailing love, unspeakable joy, and peace that passes understanding - even while the world around us seems to be falling apart and our circumstances make no sense.
 
Religion cannot give us this.
 
Doctrine cannot deliver.
 
But Jesus teaches us how to have such a depth of Relationship that nothing can move us or shake us.
 
We'll take another look at this unique Father/Son relationship and draw lessons from it in this week's online Bible study...

THE FAMILY OF GOD (Part 6)
Thursday, July 1, 2021
7:00 p.m. Eastern Time (New York)
 
Register here (if you haven't already):
https://chipbrogden.com/bible
 
These free classes are made possible by your donation of any amount.
 
Thank you for supporting Christ-centered teaching.

I am your brother

Chip Brogden
https://ChipBrogden.com
 
PO Box 282
Bunn NC 27508
USA

Hello Elaine,
 
"Though He was a son, He learned obedience through the things that He suffered" (Heb. 5:8).
 
Suffering is unavoidable - even Jesus suffered!
 
What does suffering teach us?
 
Join us for tonight's online Bible study...

THE FAMILY OF GOD (Part 5)
Thursday, June 24, 2021
7:00 p.m. Eastern Time (New York)
 
Register here (if you haven't already):
https://chipbrogden.com/bible
 
I hope to "see" you there!
 
I am your brother,

Chip Brogden
https://ChipBrogden.com
 

PO Box 282
Bunn NC 27508
USA

Hello Elaine,
 
Thank you for your prayers and thoughts during our "family emergency" last week.
 
Please continue to pray as you are led.
 
We return to the online Bible study this week and take up the subject again:
 
"Fatherhood and Sonship in the Family of God."
 
We just observed Father's Day here in the U.S., so it's an interesting time to consider.
 
Jesus perfectly reveals the Father.
 
How?
 
Because Jesus perfectly reveals Sonship.
 
I love what George MacDonald had to say about this:
 
"The Fatherhood and Sonship are one, save that the Fatherhood looks down lovingly, and the Sonship looks up lovingly. Love is all. And God is all in all."
 
I believe there are mysteries within this Father/Son relationship that will help us better understand, appreciate, and cooperate with our own love relationship with God.
 
That is the whole basis of "Relationship, not Religion."
 
Join us as we explore some of those mysteries this week...

THE FAMILY OF GOD (Part 5)
Thursday, June 24, 2021
7:00 p.m. Eastern Time (New York)
 
Register here (if you haven't already):
https://chipbrogden.com/bible
 
These classes are free; your gift (of any amount) helps make them possible.
 
Thank you for supporting Christ-centered teaching.

I am your brother,

Chip Brogden
https://ChipBrogden.com
 

PO Box 282
Bunn NC 27508
USA