CPM Gathering Recordings

The CPM Friday Night Gatherings in the Franklin/Brentwood area spanned a time period of over 3 years. CPM, by the way, is the abbreviation for Christopher Poole Ministries.

To anyone who may find these recordings on our website, these recordings in this section of the website are not intended to be standalone messages.  That is because they are about a process, and we did not discuss the beginning of that process.  There certainly is a place for someone to start, but first there must be understanding of the purpose and the process. Then…, there can be a place to start.  

There is a group of people in the earth who are pursuing the formation of the Lord within them.  Jesus speaks to a major aspect of this in Luke 17:21 where He says…, the kingdom of God is within you.  They have chosen to enter into Christ through the Matt 7:13-14 narrow gate and are in pursuit of the life of Christ mentioned in that verse.  They are traveling on a pathway they have never been down before, and the only parts of the pathway that they recognize are the landmarks that they have now arrived at, because they have made it that far on the journey.  

But there is much that they have yet to discover and uncover.  While the Cross and even Jesus Christ, Himself, have been lost to much of the modern-day church, the Lord is not only actively in the process of recovering Himself back into His Church, but He is continuing to apply the Cross to their old nature, that self-life part of them that is relegated to death by the eternal plan and purpose of the Godhead, so that there is room for the life of Christ to replace thet self-life that was once filling them. 

This is not some hyper-radical segment of the church. It is the expression of what was predestined by the Lord for every single human being that was ever born, and we can see that in Eph 1:11…, In Him we also have obtained an inheritance, having been predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things in accordance with the plan of His will.

So what you will hear in these messages are components of this Journey, things that are being experienced, and our processings of those things.  But again to be clear, this is not how to live a better life, or how to fix up our existing self.  This process is how we die to self with grace and heavenly purpose, and…, a determined intent by the Holy Spirit in applying the Cross to each one of us.  And as we do this, we then press on into a much greater life that is given to us by One much greater than ourselves, even Jesus Christ Himself.  

I hope all of what was just said is clear and makes sense.  But there is no way to really do justice to this kind of an explanation in short fashion. There’s just too much involved, but we’re going to let what was just said be our best effort for now. 

To anyone who is new to this gathering and any of the teachings that we have just alluded to, and you find yourself wanting to find a starting place, I would recommend that you go to this section of our website… https://christthewaychurch.com/messages-ctw-church and start with the very first message on “The Historical Foundations” of the church.  Listen to at least the first four or five messages and that will help offer a greater understanding of what it is we were intended to enter into.  Especially focus on the parts pertaining to the Eternal Plan and Purpose of the Godhead. 

New participants are absolutely welcome to join this gathering, but we feel it will be important that they be aware of the mission and the focus in this specific setting, since it is going to be more focus on an ongoing process, rather than a beginning foundation of that process..

CPM Gathering 03/25/22

Chris Poole - Speaker

For a couple of sessions now, we have seen the Lord change our focus in the more recent gatherings, even though we have been on the track of the Lord dealing with our souls. But this Friday, we returned to the on-going discussion of the Lord breaking our souls so that they will become useful to Him rather than oppose His ways.

CPM Gathering - 3/11/22

Chris Poole - Speaker

This session turned out to be entirely focused on the provision of the Lord in the times that are coming upon us. This was going to be a starting topic but it became the whole message and we were not even able to get to the end of it before time ran out. There may be a very short addition done to completely finish what we were intending to address.

CPM Gathering - 2/25/22

[NOTE: This live video will be edited and a new and more complete recording will be uploaded to replace this copy. We experienced a loss of internet signal in the middle of the message that was not lengthy, but it was disruptive. So a new edited copy with the full content will replace this original live version.]

This has been a bit of an unusual timeframe and that we are running along a track of content that is involving both of our gatherings, the church gathering on Sundays and the CPM gathering on Friday evenings. Normally we deal with slightly separate content in those two venues but we feel that this information is important to a degree to where we're just pressing forward to get this information out because we believe that it will help some of us be able to see and better understand what might be slowing us down in our forward motion in the journey. Therefore, our plan is to continue to move forward in our focus on releasing the Lord from within our spirit and no longer keeping Him bound up the activity of our souls.

Chris Poole was the speaker.

CPM Gathering - 2/11/22

In this session, our plan was to return to the Lord's corrections on our soul so that we might become living stones with sufficient internal integrity such that we can be used as building material in the house of the Lord.

Chris Poole was the speaker.

CPM Gathering - 1/28/22

In this session, we got back into the overall topic of the Lord’s corrections on our souls. This is going to be an ongoing topic for a while due to the great importance of this topic to what the Lord is doing in our lives in this season.

CPM GATHERING FOR 12/17/21

In our final CPM Gathering for 2021, we began a new and deep look at the soul and some specifics that we have not yet touched in this specific gathering.

For those who have been involved with these sessions for a while, the new material begins between 1:15:00 and 1:18:00. Prior to that, there was content directed at some things having to do with our local region..

CPM Gathering for 12/03/21

On Dec 3rd, we resumed our local gathering time after being out of town on Nov.10-12 for the Oxford, AL meetings.

The content this time covered a variety of timely topics and there was again a focus on the Lord's encouragement of His people in this time deliverance and looming transition.

CPM Gathering for 11/05/21

This gathering was focused on some specific encouragements from the Lord and Scripture taken from Rev chapters 1-3. We got as far as chapter 2 and time ran out.

CPM Gathering for 10/22/21

The content for this gathering is centered around the theme, God Is Peeling Our Onion.

CPM Gathering for 10/08/21

In this gathering, we engage more of the content we were not able to cover in our last Part 2 session of The Testing Of Our Faith in these times.

CPM Gathering for 09/24/21

In this session, we continue on in our look at how the Lord invests measures of the faith of Jesus Chris within us, and then He provides opportunity for our faith to be tested, so that we can see what within us has been established upon the Rock that is Christ, and what still remains upon the sand.

CPM Gathering for 8/27/21

In this session, we dealt with The Testing Of Our Faith Part 1. As more and more storm clouds gather in our society and around the globe, it is becoming increasingly important that our faith be based on substance and not fantasy. Therefore, it is helpful to look at what undergirds true faith in this season.

CPM Gathering for 8/13/21

This surely is a time where we want to pull out all the stops and go after the Lord in full measure. As we have been discussing in recent weeks, the Lord is absolutely going deep within to the point where we need Him to do what only He can do in this season. In this session, we will be discussing some specifics having to do with that process, and things revealed both from the Lord and in the Word that can offer encouragement and help in the deeper processes of transformation.

CPM Gathering for 7/30/21

In this gathering, we got into Eph 3:18-19, and then expanded from there into a deeper look at the love of Christ and how that helps propel us into our destination of a greater fullness of Jesus Christ. Then we introduced some other material that we felt would be a helpful and insightful addition to where we began.

CPM Gathering for 7/02/21

In this session, we got rather focused on some reasons why some of those in the journey have begun to feel stuck in place, as well as steps to take in order to press on and gain the victory in Christ.

Upcoming CPM Gathering for 6/18/21

In this Friday gathering, we hosted Mini Barlow as our guest speaker. Because there is a community of believers involved in this pursuit of Christ and His life, the sharing of life from within this greater community has been something we have desired to do for a while, and it can now flow within our current format.

Some might wonder why it was that the Isrealites dealt with such a propensity to miss God after they left Egypt. 1 Cor 10:13 tells us, No temptation has overtaken you but such as is common to man, and Mini explained how this issue and hardness of heart still have the potential to trip us up if we are not purposely abiding in Christ.

CPM Friday Night Gathering for 6/4/21

In this session, we take up the topic of how to best posture ourselves when the dealings of God become intense and deep, and we're not sure that we're actually even moving forward in the journey. Certain aspects of the inward formation of Christ can cause us to feel this way, but feelings can also be deceiving and other dynamics can get involved as well. The Scriptures make it clear that there is a heart posture that we can adopt that will help keep us in a posture of cooperation with the work that only the Holy Spirit can do, and will be faithful to do. So in this session, we look into this topic.

CPM Friday Night Gathering for 5/21/21

In this session, we look at the issue of the faith of Christ formed in us, and how that will help us stand fast as we are delivered and enabled to more deeply give ourselves to the journey ahead.

CPM Friday Night Gathering for 5/07/21

A message focused on perseverance and endurance, breaking free of our constraints and moving on into Christ and His life.

CPM Friday Night Gathering for 4/23/21

This session speaks to our first and primary calling in the Lord, and aspects involved in becoming overcomers.

CPM Friday Night Gathering for 4/2/21

The important benefits that come as a result of coming into a greater intimacy with Jesus Christ. Coming to a place where we learn to depend more on the Lord than on other vessels.

CPM Friday Night Gathering for 3/19/21

Part 3 of the dealings of the Lord in this season, and learning to better cooperate with the work of the Holy Spirit in the process of God in our lives, leading towards transformation.

CPM Friday Night Gathering for 3/5/21

Part 2 of the dealings of the Lord in this season, and keeping our eyes fixed on God’s purpose.

CPM Friday Night Gathering for 2/19/21

Part 1 of the dealings of the Lord in this season, and how the Lord is using our own spiritual deficiencies of the past to lead us deeper into Jesus Christ.

CPM Friday Night Gathering for 2/5/21

This message speaks to aspects of the work of the Lord in us as we progress deeper into transformation, along with some pitfalls, as well.