"A church that is walking in the revelation of God’s awesome grace will be seeing the the captives freed and the dead raised. The poor may be getting food parcels, but they’ll also be getting the good news preached to them and it will be setting them free. The sick may be getting hospital visits, but they’ll also be getting healed by believers who believe that they have authority to heal in Jesus’ name." - Paul Ellis
To me, there are at least three things in institutionalized Christianity that are severely lacking:
1. A biblical understanding of the true gospel of the grace of Jesus Christ, resulting in continuous, incredible, joyful worship;
2. A biblical understanding and experience of the spiritual union of the believer and Jesus Christ (i.e., the effect and result of having died and been resurrected to new life in Christ) and freedom from temptation and sin;
3. The biblical truth and factual experiences in the world which clearly reveal that Christ's Spirit moves regularly in partnership with believers through signs, miracles, and wonders, and that God's grace makes doing such supernatural things easy.
The ministries of ALL the apostles and even those they brought to Jesus show that the greco-roman intellect of man has stifled the three points above.
I pray that you will come to be dissatisfied with the form of Christianity embraced by so many, but which is unable to demonstrate power in each of these points. If you have never prayed for someone and them experience healing immediately, it's not because the power for that is unavailable to you; it's because you haven't believed in "His name".
You should ask yourself, "Why hasn't anyone experienced the full range of God's power through me and what can I do to change that?"
People don't need a new church program, intellectual study, conference or retreat, or theological degree. The world is searching for God's power and we owe them an encounter with God's power.
Grace=Peace,
Jeremy
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