"It's hard to get people to believe something different if it
jeopardizes their pay check." Joel Salatin on farming.
It's not hard for God.
Acts 19
23 About that time there arose no little disturbance concerning the Way. 24 For a man named Demetrius, a silversmith, who made silver shrines of Artemis,brought no little business to the craftsmen. 25 These he gathered together, with the workmen in similar trades, and said, “Men, you know that from this business we have our wealth.
The true Gospel of Jesus Christ is hard for most people to believe in America because it jeopardizes our livelihoods, our paychecks. (God was telling me, it was right in front of my face for years!) The Gospel threatens us with homelessness, starvation, we fear death. If you study the lives of men and women in history that were "friends" of God they all had somethings in common. God saved them from slavery; delivered them, then God separated them from their societies, relationships, communities, governments, God redeemed them, led them, poured his spirit and word into them, then he gave them laws and
land.
Abraham, Issac, Jacob, Moses and the Hebrews, the Pilgrims, the Founding Fathers. All were set apart by God from the world and it's standards, morals, values, "work- jobs", and ways. Saints start to learn and practice God's morals, God's ways, God's laws, God's "work", "job". The men all became "husband", "landowners". God gave them land to care for, animals to care for a family to care for.
Christians are Men and women that are
"keepers at home", farming.
Salvation
(In 1776, 95 % of Americans were Christians, farmers, Landowners)
The blessing of Deuteronomy all have to do with Farming.
True wealth and spiritual wealth of knowledge, understanding, blessings comes from.
I speak also from personal experience, as one who was in the world's system, delivered from it's impoverishment of spirit, soul and body. Returning to God receiving refreshment , restoration, renewal of spirit, soul, and body.
Joel Salatin was raised in a Christian home. He is a graduate
of Bob Jones University. He is a Christian Capitalist, Libertarian,
and Holistic Farmer.
jeopardizes their pay check." Joel Salatin on farming.
It's not hard for God.
23 About that time there arose no little disturbance concerning the Way. 24 For a man named Demetrius, a silversmith, who made silver shrines of Artemis,brought no little business to the craftsmen. 25 These he gathered together, with the workmen in similar trades, and said, “Men, you know that from this business we have our wealth.
The true Gospel of Jesus Christ is hard for most people to believe in America because it jeopardizes our livelihoods, our paychecks. (God was telling me, it was right in front of my face for years!) The Gospel threatens us with homelessness, starvation, we fear death. If you study the lives of men and women in history that were "friends" of God they all had somethings in common. God saved them from slavery; delivered them, then God separated them from their societies, relationships, communities, governments, God redeemed them, led them, poured his spirit and word into them, then he gave them laws and
land.
Abraham, Issac, Jacob, Moses and the Hebrews, the Pilgrims, the Founding Fathers. All were set apart by God from the world and it's standards, morals, values, "work- jobs", and ways. Saints start to learn and practice God's morals, God's ways, God's laws, God's "work", "job". The men all became "husband", "landowners". God gave them land to care for, animals to care for a family to care for.
Christians are Men and women that are
"keepers at home", farming.
(In 1776, 95 % of Americans were Christians, farmers, Landowners)
The blessing of Deuteronomy all have to do with Farming.
True wealth and spiritual wealth of knowledge, understanding, blessings comes from.
I speak also from personal experience, as one who was in the world's system, delivered from it's impoverishment of spirit, soul and body. Returning to God receiving refreshment , restoration, renewal of spirit, soul, and body.
Joel Salatin was raised in a Christian home. He is a graduate
of Bob Jones University. He is a Christian Capitalist, Libertarian,
and Holistic Farmer.
Joel Salatin grew up on an organic farm where his parents had hippie earthy types over on the weekend but they went to a straight laced church on Sunday mornings. http://truthmatters.info/bible-fundamentalists-cosmic-nirvana-earth-worshippers-and-joel-salatin/
This is what I've been saying for over the past 10 years..Christians, we missed the bus on taking care of God's creation... we built mega churches that are in full sun running $1,000 electric bills, we pray for healing but go to fast food restaurants. We pray for God's provision but wouldn't DREAM of growing our own food or raising animals for food production.. It's like the parable of the guy drowning in the ocean who is thrown a life preserver and offered to get in a boat "nope, God is going to lift me straight out ..." We want to get rid of cancers, diabetes, loose weight...and all the while the answer is right there staring us in the face... We have gotten lazy and, quite frankly, as Joel puts it, when it comes to food, we are traveling the BROAD ROAD!! Wide is the gate that leads to hell, there are many avenues to choose from. This way leads to pesticides, chemicals, a raping of Creation, and then we ask God to heal us while we are destroying his creation through buying the fake foods made through dishonest practices? No more though!! Time to take the narrow straight way. We are making the turn....
How is Christian Faith Tied to Farming...
We view the Creation God made
Forgiveness.. how to make a forgiving farming food system?
1. We need to help the immune system of plants and animals get stronger and stronger... opposite of today
How is Christian Faith Tied to Farming...
We view the Creation God made
Forgiveness.. how to make a forgiving farming food system?
1. We need to help the immune system of plants and animals get stronger and stronger... opposite of today
2. A forgiving food farming system Reduces floods and increases hydration during droughts- ie build ponds during floods for use during drought
3 . Fertility is increased.. how?
large scale compost to in-source fertility and not outsource... we don't have to send military to the middle east to get petroleum based fertilizers
large scale compost to in-source fertility and not outsource... we don't have to send military to the middle east to get petroleum based fertilizers
Beauty...
What does a beautiful farm look like?
A beautiful farm is diverse...
Diversity, plants, animals.. all WORKING TOGETHER
.. no hazmat suits...
A Godly food system is attractive... it should be magnetic.. we as believers should be magnetic!!!!!
Diversity, plants, animals.. all WORKING TOGETHER
.. no hazmat suits...
A Godly food system is attractive... it should be magnetic.. we as believers should be magnetic!!!!!
Order...
God is a God of order..
How do we have a farm that exemplifies order?
How do we have a farm that exemplifies order?
In Nature...birds follow herbivores in nature... Polyface, (Many faces), Farm moves chicken behind cows. Chicken start spreading cow patties and eating fly larva... these are big natural principals. See video Joel Salatin
God is a God of relationship
Food systems of today are fundamentally anti-environment
Food systems of today are fundamentally anti-environment
However, Life is fundamentally sacred .
The average industrial farm has no relationship.. there aren't even any farmers on these one species farms...
We need to embrace different gifts and talents of animals and plants...
This sounds like the Church... and this is spiritual truth going on in a visceral way...
http://truefoodsolutions.com/blog/food-cornerstone-of-christian-credibility-by-joel-salatin-part-two-farming-and-worldview/
What is wrong with American food system?
It is mechanical... manipulating life...
http://truefoodsolutions.com/blog/food-cornerstone-of-christian-credibility-by-joel-salatin-part-two-farming-and-worldview/
vis·cer·al
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adjective
- of or relating to the viscera."the visceral nervous system"
- relating to deep inward feelings rather than to the intellect."the voters' visceral fear of change"
synonyms: instinctive, instinctual, gut, deep-down, deep-seated, deep-rooted,inward; More
What is wrong with American food system?
It is mechanical... manipulating life...
How can we grow pigs so they can express their pigness
There is a reason why we should respect and honor the pigness of a pig
There is a reason why we should respect and honor the pigness of a pig
It is in this ethical dimension in supporting the pigness of a pig
Today's farming is: how can we grow more stuff as quick as we can?
We LEAD THE WORLD IN THE 5 TOP CHRONIC DISEASES..
Our food system doesn't ask "how do we keep nutritional integrity?"
We have more salmonella, e coli, pathogens due to large scale industrial farming
Food is bathed in chemicals... in many cases it won't even rot... it has no life
We need to opt out..
The Biblical principles...
Broad and easy way verses the narrow way
The Biblical principles...
Broad and easy way verses the narrow way
Broad way- easy, live, eat, but it leads to destruction... diabetes, obesity, toxicity, hospital bills, soil depletion, the making of deserts, (Deserts: Tens of thousands of acres all over the US where the land is come depleted of all nutrients, useless. The size of the Gulf of Mexico.)
We want to find a fundamentally Healing WAY...THE NARROW WAY!!
How do we heal the plants, how to we heal the animals, how to we heal ourselves ?
We suddenly embrace this glorious health and abundance that God's grace wants to pour out on us... we participate viscerally and spiritually. The two worlds collide instead of compete and it's a great place to be!
Joel Salatin...
Over the years, I’ve seen an amazing transformation in our farm visitors. Today, probably half are conservative home-schooling Christians. I believe that the home-schooling movement spawned an entire awakening to alternative ideas. Families who left the conventional institutional educational setting, who disagreed with credentialed officialdom, found their new path soul satisfying. That satisfaction led them to ask the question: “Well, I wonder what else I’ve been missing out on?”
Jesus came to save, heal, and deliver. For too long Christians have made fun of earth loving green minded liberals. I, for one, stand with Joel Salatin and my liberal earth minded friends in loving the earth God has given us with all we can. There is a broad way and Christians are on their high horse saying "Jesus is the way," singing "Shout to the Lord" in their air conditioned mega churches whose carbon footprint is off the charts.
We say we love the God of creation as we buy apple juice shipped from China laced with arsenic. We allow the proliferation of GMOs which is like breeding a pig with a tomato plant.. it's ungodly and unnatural and our body's microbes are killed by it. Why, oh Lord, didn't you heal my momma of cancer, why does my husband have arthritis, why are my children's teeth rotting?
Lord, you are our healer... and He says "I try to heal you but you keep jumping over the cliff asking me to catch you..." Instead of taking youth groups to amusement parks, we need to put a maddox, or shovel in their hand, take them to a farm, and have them weed out thistles like Kansas did out on the Ranch growing up. It teaches us how we have to work HARD to root out sin.
Do we want the Broad way or the Narrow way? Churches need to turn their lawns into community gardens and package and can healthy foods and grow grass fed meat instead of trying to feed the poor with nutritionally BANKRUPT items masquerading as food! Give the poor land, dig them a well, build a small shelter and some seeds like we do in Africa.
Quit with the chick fil le potlucks and have a non gmo organic chicken processing party and allow each family to go home with a trunk full of nutritionally jam packed chickens!!
We want to find a fundamentally Healing WAY...THE NARROW WAY!!
How do we heal the plants, how to we heal the animals, how to we heal ourselves ?
We suddenly embrace this glorious health and abundance that God's grace wants to pour out on us... we participate viscerally and spiritually. The two worlds collide instead of compete and it's a great place to be!
Joel Salatin...
Over the years, I’ve seen an amazing transformation in our farm visitors. Today, probably half are conservative home-schooling Christians. I believe that the home-schooling movement spawned an entire awakening to alternative ideas. Families who left the conventional institutional educational setting, who disagreed with credentialed officialdom, found their new path soul satisfying. That satisfaction led them to ask the question: “Well, I wonder what else I’ve been missing out on?”
Jesus came to save, heal, and deliver. For too long Christians have made fun of earth loving green minded liberals. I, for one, stand with Joel Salatin and my liberal earth minded friends in loving the earth God has given us with all we can. There is a broad way and Christians are on their high horse saying "Jesus is the way," singing "Shout to the Lord" in their air conditioned mega churches whose carbon footprint is off the charts.
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