church? moments

during the last five days
I have spent time with the following:

a woman who believes the seven books that she has written during the last few years are in fact the seven scrolls mentioned in Revelation
AND
that she is the birth mother of the church that is to come

another woman who believes she is a direct descendent of David and is being urgently called to Israel as its prophet

another couple who believe they are the two witnesses described in Revelation

I have not been spacing out on some fringe planet: all the above people are presently within the church

BUT THEN
this morning I had breakfast with a gentle unassuming shepherd who literally walks the floors at night weeping for the sheep who have been placed in his pasture

in the heart of the whirlwind there is quiet