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# Deceptively Simple
- URL: https://www.belonging.house/deceptively-simple/
- Published: 2025-07-31T06:35:28.000Z
- Updated: 2026-07-24T23:51:19.000Z
- Author: Christ John Otto
- Tags: Newsletter, #Migrated-1784937001272, #Import 2026-07-24 23:50

Text within this block will maintain its original spacing when publishedI mentioned a few weeks back  
  
that God gave me a four part daily strategy  
  
for my work:  
  
Worship  
  
Communion  
  
Say yes  
  
and Get whole.  
  
  
Every thing God asks you to do  
  
is deceptively simple.  
  
  
Take listening to the Lord and doing what he tells you.  
  
That is not easy.  
  
Try it.  
  
  
It is much easier to go along to get along,  
  
play by the rules, and get ahead.  
  
The first thing God will ask you to do--  
  
if you are really listening--  
  
is do something that proves you trust him   
  
over the systems around you that you trust.  
  
  
That's what God said to   
  
Abraham  
  
Moses  
  
Gideon  
  
Elisha  
  
Daniel  
  
Mary  
  
Peter, James, John  
  
and Paul.  
  
  
It will always come down to faith and trust.  
  
Discipleship is about becoming like Jesus.  
  
And becoming like Jesus is trusting the Father.  
  
  
Much of the church is not doing discipleship very well.  
  
What we often have is making converts to a program.  
  
I meet so many people in the arts  
  
who have "made a decision for Christ"  
  
but who have sold out to a system   
  
to get ahead.  
  
The reasoning goes like this:  
  
If I compromise with the powers that be  
  
right now  
  
then in the future  
  
I will be able to have the power and influence  
  
of having a big platform to evangelize.  
  
  
It's an empty illusion.  
  
And you won't make disciples   
  
even if you have a few shallow converts.  
  
  
If you look at many of the celebrity Christians,  
  
you will have no idea that they are disciples.  
  
You cannot not communicate.  
  
  
Daniel began with,  
  
"no, I will not eat your ham and cheese sandwich."  
  
That led to  
  
"no, I will not bow down to your golden image."  
  
and that led to   
  
not being eaten by lions.  
  
  
I was asked to do things that violated my conscience in 1997  
  
if I wanted to get credentials in my denomination.  
  
The advice was  
  
do what they ask now,  
  
just to get through the process,  
  
and then afterward  
  
you can go and do what ever you want.  
  
  
It will never work.  
  
That's how corrupt politicians get their start.  
  
This is why I felt it was important to   
  
create a coherent worldview  
  
and a model of discipleship around it.  
  
We are going to be focused on it at   
  
Gather Us In this October.  
  
  
It isn't going to be a conference,  
  
but a hands on activation of our discipleship model.  
  
Pray about coming, because  
  
It works.  
  
Early bird registration ends August 15.  
  
  
He Never Fails,  
  
Christ