FROM THE ARCHIVES

"Therefore every scribe who has become a disciple of the kingdom of heaven is like a head of a household, who brings out of his treasure things new and old." Mt. 13:52        .

First Love Ministry originated as a hand written circulation letter writing ministry in 1987-88 as the American prophetic movement was entering prominence and evangelical Christianity was at its zenith of influence in American politics. In these letter-articles Chris Anderson imparts from his instructional prophetic well to a relational circuit of "wilderness" saints stretching from the Carolinas and the Midwest to Maritime Canada, and later toward the established church.

In this collection from the basement of this 30 year "wine cellar," you will find writings both instructional and devotional. The personal flavor of many of these letter articles has been retained, though full names of the original recipients have been withheld. The articles are presented here in the sequence they were written and include those from this early period already featured in the main index.  

 

(1978)

• SOME THOUGHTS ON THE WILL OF GOD FOR A CHRISTIAN

Early musings of a freshly Spirit-baptized fundamentalist....

1987

FLIGHT FROM BABYLON: THE COMING SALVATION FROM THE WORKS OF COLLECTIVE SOCIETY & LABOUR NOT FOR THE MEAT THAT PERISHES

Are you a "western Christian?" Are you "part of" the surrounding society or just "passing through?"Are you settled into the culture with a nice mortgaged home and a predictable 9 to 5 career job? Are you also part of a "church" identified by its equally nice, mortgaged brick-and-mortar building in town? Are you the consummate lover of "God, family and country?" If so, come on a panoramic tour of the ultimate "culture war" of all history, and prepare for what could become the most rude awakening of your life...

1988

• THE WORD OF GOD THROUGH FLESH AND BLOOD
  
  
  What does it mean to be "an oracle of God?" What are its limits? What do the Law of Moses, the New Testament writings and today's Spirit-filled prophets have in common? You might be surprised.
  
  
  
  
• DYING TO SOUL LIFE IMAGES
  
  
  Illustrating the inherent relationship between fleshly soul life and superficial mental concepts of the word of God, and the necessity of dying to such conception through the process of discipleship. A foundational primer to the Prophetic Essays On Salvation.
  
  
  
  
• PURIFIED IDENTITY: THE FOUNDATIONAL SERIES
  
  Outlining the core issue at the heart of your salvation. Who are you in Christ? Do you know—really? This series forms the platform for the Purified Identity section in the main index.
  
  
  
  
• GOD'S PROMISES TO THE HIDDEN MAN (SERIES)
  
  
  Intense study of the relationship of divine promise to the true identity of the believer and the role of promise-outworking toward perfecting that identity. Long sought answers to the apparent failures of answered prayer to the "outer man." 
  
  
  
  
• FROM NAIVETE TO DISCERNMENT TO RELEASE
  
  
  Tracing the fascinating three-stage process of spiritual understanding development from ignorance to legal perception to grace beyond perception.  
  
  
  
  
• OVERCOMING FEAR BY NEGATIVE ASSOCIATION
  
  If you had watched Moses turn a rod into a serpent like his opponents, would you have fearfully concluded he esteemed "the Serpent" just as they did?   
  
  
  
  
  
• "BOILING BLOOD" AND THE NEARNESS OF THE END
  
  
  A look at the effects of the 5th Trumpet on the life force of modern society and the need for spiritual blood transfusion. Another forerunner of the Prophetic Essays On Salvation.
  
  
  
  
• CHRISTMAS: YESTERDAY'S REHEARSAL FOR TOMORROW'S ADVENT 
  
  
  The first in a set of three articles over time challenging the church to look eternally beyond the present world spirit of Christmas. See also The Spirit of Christmas and the Prophetic Church and The Redemption of December.
  
  
  
  
  
  1990
  
  
• ON THE THRESHOLD OF HARVEST
  
  
  A prophetic understanding of the nature of the human social growing season, how the nature of society changes along that spectrum and how we are now moving into the harvest phase of social change ahead of the Lord's return. A complement to the newly-released and final breathtaking Leland Earls article The First and the Last.
  
  
  
  
• THE WORLD SET IN OUR HEARTS
  
  
  Prophetic application of the Great Commission to the visionary world of the inner man. Companion to the prophecy The Nature of My Calling and "Now We See But a Poor Reflection." 
  
  
  
  
  
• "NOW WE SEE BUT A POOR REFLECTION"
  
  
  Sequel to "The World Set in Our Hearts," discussing how to handle the "mirror smashing" around us of what God has planted deep within.  
  
  
  
  
• UNDERSTANDING WORLD POLITICS
  
  
  Written in the immediate shadow of the re-unifying of East and West Europe, this article details the synthesizing of the  knowledge of good and evil across the global political spectrum toward a one-world political belief system. 

A discussion of how prophetic revelation must continually be exchanged over time as we approach fulfilment of a prophetic destination.

A first exposition of the weakness, incompleteness and latent hypocrisy found within the wilderness prophetic stream with an exhortation to receptiveness of the Holy Spirit's work within the larger mainstream prophetic church. A complement to the  developing revelation of the Mystery of Spiritual Gender and a primer for the Lessons from the Wilderness series.

• PREPARING FOR A NEW RELATIONSHIP TO THE EARTH
  

  Encouragement to the wilderness prophetic community to become open to expecting God's "goodness in the land of the living" beyond the sufferings of discipleship as we approach the time of glorification.
  
  
  
  
  
  1991

• SPIRITUAL OSCILLATION
  

  Amidst the cycles between conflictory beliefs, hopes and leadings of the Holy Spirit comes an exhortation to endurance unto nearing glorified reconciliation between spiritual life's opposing natures and forces.
  
  
  
  

• ON WHOSE SIDE IS GOD?
  

  Insight from the scriptures revealing the inadequacy of moral discernment in appraising God's role behind human events. See how we can be fooled because of the competing spiritual powers operating through the same actions. Contains seed thoughts developed more fully in the The Holy Spirit of Delusion from The Holy Spirit in the Church of Laodicea, and in When Prophecies Cry Wolf.
  
  
  
  

This wilderness prophet repents for his extreme one-sided discipleship view and emulation of the Lord. Follow-up to An Open  Letter to Desert Dwellers.

Based on the Parable of the Sower, prophetic notes on the eleven elements and growing factors of spiritual seeds. Especially commended to overseas pastors for instructing their flocks in the basics of Christian faith!

A veritable syllabus on the office and gift of prophecy as outlined in the New Testament. Discusses all the applications of prophecy found in the church in light of the mushrooming prophetic movement. Especially commended to believers new to  understanding the ministry of present tense prophecy.

See how living faith works toward unity of the body of Christ as it forces us out of the confines of solidified spiritual perspectives to recognize the fullness of Christ in others with differing perspective.

Originally written as a letter to a church leadership, this second of three articles on Christmas offers a penetrating look at Christmas as a spiritual principality and power in conflict with the prophetic Voice of the Holy Spirit in the church. Proposed solutions for overcoming in the conflict are also presented.

1992

Subtitled "How to Avoid Being Trampled in the Great Tribulation," learn how John's temple encounter (Revelation 11) reconciles conflicting beliefs over the presence and role of believers during the time of the very end.

Find here a careful anatomical look at the relationship between the indwelling life of the Spirit and the veil of natural thought structure and life force out of which the Spirit must break forth in order to effectively minister to others through us.

A penetrating presentation on the sovereignly elect nature of God's redeemed priesthood contexted inside the human decision process of the first adamic race under the knowledge of good and evil. (See further the conversation Relating Human Will to Salvation by Faith—Dealing with False Presumptions.)

Here we appraise the basic "now-but-not-yet" variables of true kingdom teaching with attention to how those variables become subverted to create false kingdom teaching. A must read primer for understanding the conflict over prophetic movement kingdom teachings as found in our other articles!

Does God love? If so why do we see Him angry? What does this mean for us who seek to bear Christ's image? Insight into the polarities of God's attitudes and actions toward people as differentiated and advocated across the prophetic body of Christ with a call to embrace Christ's full nature. 

A prophetic lesson from the priestly bearing of the ark across Jordan that gives us principles for faithfully bearing God's presence into the river of adamic life!

From which life source will we choose to live our life in Christ? Hear in this devotional the whispering call to a spirit-governed soul. 

A look into the spirit of exclusivism that develops over later revelation beyond the gospel leading to cults and false gospels based on false claims to "sole heirship" to the first apostles. 

Is it "fair" for God to elect some to salvation and not others? Was it "fair" for God to create a world with the foreknowledge that most of its inhabitants would end up in hell? This article challenges the unbelief founded upon the human perception of fairness behind these and other inexplicable questions. 

An introduction to the key concepts and principles by which the Lord metes out His justice in the face of failed prophetic relationship. We learn about the Lord's silent, sifting presence through prophetic relational encounter, the crucial role of forgiving release and secondary reconciliation under the prophetic presence, and the fundamental law of our own words by which His judgment is meted out. (See also the complete Relational Justice Series.) 

When memory of carnal human fellowship is one day wiped away, and the only standard of relationship is the Knowledge of God, the price of the Lord's ceasing to strive with resistors of His prophetic Word will become apparent. You don't want this to happen to you..... 

1993

1994

• THE TRANSFORMATION AND THE ANOINTING
  

1995

When spiritual life cools, the zeal abates and the excitement of ministry fades into the doldrums of the ordinary, do we have what it takes to pass the ultimate test of endurance? (Companion to The Kingdom Within.) 

1996

• THE "NEW GENTILES" AND THE NEXT REVELATION OF CHRIST
  

1997

• THE HOLY SPIRIT IN THE CHURCH OF LAODICEA
  

1998

• CRITICAL ISSUES: THE PROPHETIC AND THE NEXT THIRTY YEARS
  

1999

Proverbial thoughts relating the authority of the inner life over the outer life—concepts to re-center our inside-out grasp of what it truly means to expand the kingdom of God with special attention on the art of engaging vs. relinquishing life issues.

• FOUR ETERNAL ABSOLUTES
  

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