The Big Picture
By John C. Fenn
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This series is about how the Father and Lord Jesus are looking at the big picture of us spending eternity with them, and how we need to change our thinking to their thinking. This is about ‘big picture’ thinking presented in scripture and evidenced by small ‘winks’ God gives us through our day that tell us to look higher, deeper, and further into the ages to come.
John C. Fenn
John and Barbara Fenn were born in Kokomo, Indiana and grew up just a few miles from each other. They attended the same kindergarten, went to many of the same neighborhood birthday parties growing up, and had mutual friends. Barb even attended John's confirmation in the Episcopal Church when they were twelve years old. They began dating as teenagers and were born again together and baptized with the Holy Spirit at age sixteen. Each attended Indiana University after graduating high school and were then married in 1978. In early 2002 John and Barb founded the Church Without Walls International of Tulsa (CWOWI), a house church network, emphasizing relationship-based Christianity. The seeds of CWOWI were planted in 1992 during a time of prayer. The Lord Jesus appeared to John in a visitation and shared some of what He would be doing in the future. Part of the Lord's plan was an exodus from many of the "para-church" organizations that were raised up after the Charismatic renewal of the 1960s and 70s. This would produce a movement of more "para-church" organizations, home prayer meetings, and also home-based churches. On November 4, 2001, during an evening church meeting in Edmonton, Alberta, Jesus appeared again to John. As both John and the host pastor fell to their knees, Jesus laid hands on John and told him to start a home church network "based on my Word and the things you've learned through the people I've brought across your path this year." The Lord said He wanted it to be called The Church Without Walls International. The next month, CWOWI began meeting in the Fenn home, and is growing and gaining affiliate house churches as relationships develop. Known for teaching with anointing and by revelation and flowing with the gifts of the spirit, his heart's desire is to make known the ways of the Father God. Church Without Walls International (CWOWI) is dedicated to making disciples of Jesus Christ through the establishment of a network of related house churches around the world.
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Part 1
Hi all,
A man arrived at his girlfriend’s apartment but she wasn’t ready, so he made himself useful by putting away the clean dishes from the dishwasher. No asking, prodding, or hinting by her, he just thought he would help out. She was impressed! This guy is marriage material!
As he was unloading it she went to the cupboard for something and found he had stacked the measuring cups in the wrong order. Instead of nesting them as they were designed, he had stacked one on the other in the order he got them out of the dishwasher.
She opened her mouth to say, That’s not the way these should be stacked, next time…
when something stopped her. She thought, Is this really important?
Trivial, or deal breaker?
She remembered her friends complaining about things their husbands did NOT do—laundry, dishes, cleaning the house, helping with the kids—and she thought, Am I going to correct him over measuring cups not stacked correctly when he took it upon himself to empty the dishwasher? We may be together the rest of our lives. Is this really important?
In a flash of time she saw years into their future, years of correcting little things he did wrong. She suddenly realized she had assumed her way was the only way and she thought it her job to train him: nested measuring cups here, properly folded towels there, dishwasher loaded the