In the last post, we described that we are not looking for, "Honey, I shrunk the church," where someone leads from the front and there is pre-organized worship and teaching. But before we look at what a church meeting looks like we need to answer an important question, "What is church?" All of us know… Read More
All over the country, people are meeting in homes instead of in buildings as their main expression of church. According to George Barna, that figure is about 5% of the adult population of this country! Similar results were obtained in surveys by Ed Stetzer of the Southern Baptists and the Pew Forun. Amazing! Who would… Read More
I just finished reading the book Follow by Floyd McClung. This book discusses the basics of discipleship, teaching us how to disciple not-yet-believers into the Kingdom. These disciples become world changers by reaching out to their communities and starting D-groups (precursors to simple churches). Floyd is not interested in mere believism. He is looking for… Read More
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The ultimate source of healing
This post will conclude the series I have written on Kingdom skills: dealing with inner hurts. As I mentioned in the first post on this topic, I spent two years researching the area of inner healing–at least in part because so many people we came across were wounded in various areas. At the end of… Read More
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The battle for the mind
For several posts now we have been looking at the various causes of emotional problems from a spiritual perspective with the aim of equipping people to help those who are challenged in these areas. (More of the tools in a later post.) The ground where the battle needs to be won is the inner… Read More
Continuing the series on Kingdom skills: helping those with inner pain and problems. In the last post we looked at the first of the 5, rather contrived, "S's" that allow Satan access to our lives–namely sin. Here are the remaining four. Seance: This “S” refers to where we have given Satan access to our… Read More
Continuing the series on skills for Kingdom builders: dealing with emotional problems. The last four posts have dealt with different categories of causes of problems in the inner man: our sin, inherited tendency to sin, where we are sinned against and griefs and sorrows. Satan loves to supercharge any of these areas, taking them to… Read More
Continuing the series of skills for Kingdom building: inner healing Diane came to see me with depression. The cause was obvious. About five years previously, her young son, around 2 years of age, had drowned in their swimming pool. He had only been out of sight for just a few minutes while she was… Read More
I once had a word of knowledge about a person who had been repeatedly raped by her father and an uncle as a young child. As I looked at the people present at the gathering, I was fairly sure I knew who it was; a young woman had been glowering at me for most of… Read More
Continuing the discussion on Kingdom skills: inner healing. We had known Faith and her family for many years. Faith had a wonderful husband and two delightful kids. Yet one day she told us that she had problems with uncontrollable anger. For no apparent reason, she would lose her temper with the family, shouting and… Read More