Mothering and Fathering & the 2 Kinds of Fathering

  • Truths revealed in this article partially explains why parts of the OUB Website are now password protected.
  • The rest of the explanation is to be found in “New Password for parts of the OUB Website”.

Below I will reveal to you some of the Difference between Mothering and Fathering.

  • This will help you to know how and when to do each.
  • It will also facilitate you into function in a way that will best facilitate others into growing up.
  • And into taking responsibility for their own Journey of growing up.
  • I am both Proclaiming and Explaining revealed truth to you.
  • So that you can function in these truths as a Teacher, Apostle and Father.
  • I will also reveal to you 2 levels of Fathering.

“For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you need someone to teach you again the first principles of the oracles of God; and you have come to need milk and not solid food.  For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe.  But solid food belongs to those who are of full age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil.” Hebrews 5:12-14

  • This is the scripture passage that immediately precedes Hebrews 6:1-2.

Hebrews 6:1-2 lists 6 Foundations that precede becoming Perfect / Mature / Complete. 

  • Repentance from Dead Works
  • Faith Towards God
  • The Doctrine of Baptisms
  • The Doctrine of the Laying on of Hands
  • The Doctrine of Resurrection of the Dead
  • The Doctrine of Eternal Judgment
  • Perfection

I have written and spoken about these 7 elsewhere.

  • I list them here as context for Hebrews 5:12-14.
  • And to point out that 4 of the 6 Foundations are Doctrines.
  • Doctrines are Teachings.
  • Teachings are something that a Teacher teaches.

We are told in Hebrews 5:12 that we are all meant to become Teachers. 

  • Becoming a Teacher is on our Journey into Perfection / Maturity / Completeness.
  • Teacher is one of the 5 Names of the Apostle (Sent / Sender & Forerunner).

I have called the Name “Teacher” by the new name: “Explainer of Revealed Mysteries”.

  • Doing so prevents us from bringing Old Wineskin understanding of Teacher into our practice in the New.
  • 7 of the Revealed Mysteries that Teachers explain are listed in Hebrews 5:12-14.
  • We are all destined to become Teachers.
  • We are all destined to explain these 7 Mysteries to those who have not yet become Teachers.

The writer (and The LORD God) rebukes the readers (and us if it applies) for 3 things.

  • For being too slow to become a Teacher.
  • For still needing to be taught the 7 Mysteries listed above.
  • For still being a Baby who needs Milk instead of Solid Food.

There are 4 Stages of Growth on our Journey of growing up as a King and Son of God.

  • Baby
  • Little Child
  • Young Man
  • Father

Babies are entirely dependent on their Mothers.

  • Babies cry and their Mother attends to all of their needs.
  • This is normal and right.
  • It is abnormal wrong when a Baby remains a Baby for longer than is normal.
  • It is wrong when a Baby chooses / is allowed to remain a Baby for longer than is normal.

Little Children are taught by their parents to do more and more for themselves.

  • Beginning with weaning from Milk and eating Solid Food.
  • They are skilled in the Word of Righteousness.
  • They have trained their senses to discern good and evil.

I am not yet completely sure what is Milk and what is Solid Food.

  • I am certain that the 6 Foundations teachings are Milk.
  • I am certain that teachings about Melchizedek are Solid Food.
  • This needs more Discovery.

Young Men are Overcomers.

  • The Word of God dwells / abides / lives in them.
  • They have overcome the wicked one.
  • This means that they have stopped Wrong Trading.

There are 2 levels of Fathering. Prophets and Apostles father.

  • This level of fathering is done by functioning in the 5 Names of the Forerunner (Sent / Sender or Apostle).

Father of Generations.

  • This level of fathering is done by functioning on The Court of the Council of the Fathers.

Fathers of Generations father a Generation.

  • Beginning with fathering generations of spiritual sons.
  • And going on to fathering a world-wide spiritual generation.

Fathers of Generations sit on a Council in the Court of the Councils of the Fathers.

  • You don’t begin functioning fully as a Father at this level until you have fully Overcome.
  • You begin your Journey into Father of Generations before you fully Overcome.

You can go to the Court of the Councils of the Fathers to receive revelation on Fathering.

  • We all have access.
  • This access is a going to receive.
  • At a later point on our Journey into Fathering we are seated as a member of the Court.

There is Mothering and Fathering as an Apostle.

  • Mothers mother.
  • Fathers father.

There is an order to Mothering and Fathering.

  • We all need both.
  • We are destined to do both.

The ordering of Mothering and Fathering.

  • Begotten by a Father.
  • Born from a Mother.
  • Nursed / Taught by a Mother.
  • Taught / Trained by a Father.

Here are the 5 Names of the Sent Sender. (Read up from the bottom.)

  • Sent / Sender (Apostle)
  • Revealer of Mysteries (Prophet)
  • Explainer of Revealed Mysteries (Teacher)
  • Gatherer of Scattered Children (Shepherd)
  • Proclaimer of Revealed Truth (Preacher / Evangelist)

The 5 Names of the Sent / Sender (Apostle) are Mothering and Fathering functions. Proclaimer of Revealed Truth is a fathering function.

  • It is begetting as a father.

Gatherer of Scattered Children is a mothering function.

  • Functioning as Gatherer of Scattered Children Jesus longed to gather the Children of Old Jerusalem.
  • They wouldn’t let Him.
  • Judgment came upon them as a result.

Explainer of Revealed Mysteries is both a mothering function and a fathering function.

  • Babies need mothering and milk.
  • Little Children need a mother’s teaching.
  • Later on they need a father’s teaching.
  • We are Little Children for quite a while.
  • Jesus was still calling the 12 Apostles “Little Children” just before His death.
  • They fully entered into being an Apostle / Forerunner after His death.

Revealer of Mysteries (Prophet) is a fathering function.

  • Prophets father.
  • Elijah fathered Elisha.

Sent / Sender (Apostle) is a fathering function.

  • Jesus fathered the 12 as a Sent / Sender.
  • Paul fathered his son Timothy up into becoming a Sent Sender.

I have proclaimed and partially explained to you 2 revealed truths.

  • 2 levels of fathering: fathering as Apostle / Prophet and fathering as a Father of Generations.
  • The difference between mothering and fathering.

Here is a summary of the difference between mothering and fathering.

  • Mothers give Milk.
  • Mothers train up their children to do what they have been doing as Mothers.
  • Fathers give Solid Food.
  • Fathers train up their children to do what they have been doing as Fathers.
  • Both giving Milk and giving Solid Food are functions as an Explainer of Revealed Truth (Teacher).

Spiritual Mothering and Fathering are not just for males or for females. 

  • They are Male / Female functions.
  • They are done by both Males and Females.
  • They are functions that are to be learned by both Males and Females.

Some of us were initially raised in an Old Wineskin Church by a Pastor. 

  • That Pastor was likely functioning mostly in the Old Wineskin.
  • Pastors function as a Mother.
  • Most Pastors function as a Pastor / Teacher.
  • Their teaching is teaching as a Mother.
  • It is Milk.

We come out / trade out of the Old Wineskin into the New.

  • We also trade out of being Mothered into beginning to be Fathered.
  • This is a trade out of passively receiving into actively learning to do things for ourselves.
  • It is a trade out of being taught into being trained.

There is a series of needed Transitions / Trades. 

  • We trade from receiving from others as Mothers to receiving from others as Fathers.
  • We trade into doing more and more for ourselves.
  • We into more and more for others as a Mother.
  • Then we trade into doing less and less for others as a Father.
  • We trade into facilitating others into doing more and more for themselves.
  • Finally we trade from fathering as an Apostle into fathering as Fathers of Generations.

Failing to make any of these trades / transitions is a Stumbling Block.

  • When we fail to make these needed trades we stumble over a Stumbling Block.
  • And we become a Stumbling Block for others.
  • By teaching them to stumble over the same Stumbling Block.

This illustrates an important revealed truth.

  • All Stumbling Blocks are not Wrong Trading.
  • Some Stumbling Blocks are trading into less than Full Identity.
  • Some Stumbling Blocks are refusing to grow up in our destined way and time.
  • I call this The Peter Pan Principle: “I don’t want to grow up!”
  • When we trade into the Peter Pan Principle we become a Stumbling Block for others.
  • We teach them how not to grow up.
  • Most of the Universal Ecclesia has unknowingly stumbled over this Stumbling Block.
  • This Stumbling Block is has caused most of the Ecclesia to not see and Journey into Immortality.

“My people perish for lack of knowledge.” 

Refusing to grow up is perpetuating Death in the Universal Ecclesia! 

  • As is refusing to grow into Fathering in addition to Mothering.
  • One of the first refusals to grow up is in refusing to transition from being taught to teaching.
  • This transition begins with trading out of always needing to taught by others into also teaching ourselves.
  • This is beginning to be able to feed ourselves.
  • We begin to feed ourselves before we begin to feed others.

Here is the progression with respect to Teacher (Explainer of Revealed Truth).

  • Our spiritual Mothers teach us Milk.
  • Our spiritual Mothers teach us Solid Food.
  • Our Spiritual Fathers Teach us Solid Food.
  • Our Spiritual Fathers begin to Train us to Teach.
  • We learn to Teach ourselves.
  • We learn to Teach others.

This brings us back to where we began with this article.

  • We all need to choose to grow up into Perfection /  Maturity / Completeness.

What is the New Mothering and the New Fathering? The Jerusalem that is above (NJ) is our Mother.

  •  Functioning as a Mother from NJ is functioning in the New.
  • I see the NJ Mothering function as being freeing others from the Old.

One God and Father of us all is the full position of Fathering in the New Fathering.  

  • Godship (Is there such a word?  Godhood?)  Godship / Godhood is the New Fathering.

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Meet The Author

Bill has been seeking truth all of his adult life since first believing in Jesus in 1978. Bill's search for Truth brought him to Ecclesia Framework now called One United Body (OUB). OUB is now his spiritual home and family. Bill's new names are John, Father of Many Generations and Father of One. He identifies strongly with John the Beloved. He has a heart to see the Universal Body of Christ become functionally One. B Sc Cornell University, MTS Ontario Theological Seminary. Here is Bill's PayPal information should you desire to trade into him: billbrady633@gmail.com, paypal.me/BillBrady633