Appendix A: Key Scriptures for the Ecosystem Life

This appendix gathers the biblical backbone of everything taught in the book—the non-negotiables that define the Ecosystem and expose the System.

1. Daily Life Together

2. Kingdom of Priests

3. Turning Others Toward God

4. The Presence and Power of the Spirit

5. Holiness, Love, and Identity

6. The Bride Makes Herself Ready In Adversity

Another ingenious benefit that God has baked into the Ecosystem: a Family of true believers, whether 20 or 20,000, is very difficult for governments and evil people to attack and persecute, compared to an attendance-based, holy-day clergy system. The Christian persecution watch list in 2025 includes North Korea, Somalia, Libya, Yemen, Eritrea, Sudan, Nigeria, Pakistan, India, China, Iran, Afghanistan, Saudi Arabia, Nicaragua, Cuba, Russia, Myanmar (Burma), and Vietnam. Of course it’s still very possible to persecute a courageous non-compliant follower of Jesus. But, an Ecosystem of daily life, loving our neighbors as ourselves, is a very different target for governments and haters in non-Jesus religions—than clergy, laity, and religious temple worship.

7. The 59 “One Another” Verses

Positive Commands

NEGATIVE COMMANDS (how not to treat one another)

The Ecosystem is not theory. It is Scripture, and our Experience.

The System is not in Scripture. It is made-up by the Whisper Game, “puzzle pieces” trying to make a picture that can’t bear the Fruit (and trouble) the Ecosystem can and will, “through much tribulation.”

The religious unconverted like Constantine, incorporated numerous pagan false-god ceremonies and holy days and authority structures to homogenize and control his diverse conquered tribes and peoples in the brutal Roman Empire. Caesar surmised from studying of world history and war that language bridges and all-purpose religion would be advantageous in minimizing conflict.

Dilute, dilute, dilute, substitute, relabel to make everyone happy, even if it all no longer is Christianity or a church. Church was never a building or attendance. “Go to church” made NO sense to anyone. Until Constantine blended all his religious stuff to keep control. It worked, mostly. To this day. Baskin-Robbins’ 31 flavors of buildings and clergy and niche doctrines is better than internal conflict. But now we are light years from the practice or teaching of the Scriptures, or its natural fruit.

Why not stick to what Jesus did and said, and those He apprenticed daily, Acts 2:42-47? Do we really take the Bible as seriously as we say we do?

Who believes the Bible is God’s actual inspired words to the human race?

Pentecostals do. David Limbaugh: “Biblical inerrancy was not only affirmed unambiguously by Jesus Christ, but is foundational to our firm reliance on God’s promises and revelations contained in the Bible.”

Lutherans do. Martin Luther: “Unless I am convinced of error by the testimony of Scriptures or…by manifest reasoning I stand convicted by the Scriptures to which I have appealed, and my conscience is taken captive by God’s Word, I cannot and will not recant anything… On this I take my stand. I can do no other. God help me.”

Presbyterians do. John Ankerberg: “Biblical inerrancy, properly understood, affirms Scripture’s accuracy in every area it addresses. God’s Word records the history of humanity, the teachings of our Savior, numerous fulfilled prophecies, and the principles of our faith.”

Anglicans do. J.I. Packer: “The ultimate reason why believers recognize the Bible as God’s Word is because God’s resurrection power witnesses to its truth as the Spirit opens the mind and heart.” Amen.

Reformed do. Charles Spurgeon: “I believe certain doctrines because God says they are true; and the only authority I have for their truth is the Word of God.”

Baptists do. Billy Graham: “The Bible has stood the test of time because it is divinely inspired by Almighty God, written in ink that cannot be erased by any man, religion, or belief system. God’s Word is pure—the beginning and the end. His written word has survived every scratch of the human pen.”

Methodists do. John Wesley: “Those who are not sure that they have the very inspired, inerrant and preserved Word of God in their hands today, can never fulfil the command to go forth.”

SO! Why not actually pursue that line of thought instead of allowing the whisper game of culture and compromise and centuries turn us into something that CANNOT be found in the Scriptures at all? Particularly, when (according to the famous authors and leaders and pollsters of modern christendom) literally millions of young people, 70% of “church attendance” teens abandon religion, and millions more admit to drugs, alcohol, immorality, and foul language and depressed lives.