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Ps 45:1 We have been flirting with this "greater" glory like a school kid afraid to ask the girl to dance - when will we finally realize that Jesus is still waiting for us in the hi-ways and bi-ways and not in the wrought up conference session with its high dollar sounds and high priced prophets? When will the masses wake up from its stupor and escape it's alluring attraction and promises of greatness and embrace the creed of Christ, "the greatest in the Kingdom will be the servant of all..."
"Leaving behind the after burn of current movements and trends apprehending something greater - clearer. Knowing that the Kingdom of God is not defined by personality or contemporary movements thus a new breed of minister and ministry is emerging to finish the race which Christ begun; "Preach the gospel to every creature..."
"The great labor of love Jesus called ''Harvest'' is still defined by this statement, "The laborers are few..." There must be a generation that leaps the hurdle of this self-fulfilling prophecy and becomes a church that redefines history and lays down their life for this cause. Is it you?"
"The
ink of association and ordination will not dry
"Once we begin to step from the porches of tradition into the ghetto of the impossible, we’ll begin to see His power unprecedented..."
"We can’t stand afar off in some upper room writing and wrangling; we must step out of the boat of human effort and enter into the supernatural realm of His glory..."
"Prophets in these days are mass-produced instead of tested and tried. Like an assembly line we produce prophets, never comprehending that they’re not man-made, but God made..."
"Our socially and culturally shaped religion leaves no room for diversity or creativity. We produce black and white pictures of Jesus as the world promotes a panoramic picture of a new age. Our religious adherence to tradition reinforces their view of our irrelevance..."
"A new breed of unorthodox, untraditional rule-breakers are emerging on the stage of the theologically correct..."
"They will part the red sea of modern intellectualism and allow a people to cross over to dry land. They will leap the wall of liberalism and conservatism and show the world the heart of God. They are the new breed..."
"Their faces will never decorate the halls of religious heroism but rather they will haunt hell with their persistent prayers..."
"Our light is hidden "under a bushel" and the skies are filled with the smoke of its smoldering..."
"We must reverse this cycle of separation and spiritual segregation now if we are ever going to experience the magnitude of harvest intended for this generation. We have to step up to the spiritual Jordan of our time and say to John, "Suffer it to be so now" thus condescending and putting ourselves at the same level of those we're ministering too..."
"This may come as a shock to many, but the world does not wear a tie..."
"This new breed of priests and prophets today will practice a different approach to the social status around them; they will have the inept understanding that they are in this world to be "the light of it" not a hidden object of religious affections..."
"Our identity is wrapped up in current Christian trends and books rather than God's awesome love for the people around us. We have created a fairy-tale landscape where the world is not welcome..."
"Fishing is not done from the safe shores of church, it is done in the dangerous depths of the world!"
"I believe the test to all of our prophecy and revelation is the impact it had on a dying planet. What impression it made on the hearts of lost humanity. What impact it had on the heathen nations of the world. God burn up the wood, hay, and stubble of human effort. Consume the worthless work of man's hand. Give us revivalists that burn for the lost as You did..."
"We stand by on the sidelines of human demise and speak our messages, sing our songs, prophecy and preach, and all the while we never reach- even one lost soul. Let the words of Christ then burn in our consciences, "Which one of you, having a hundred sheep, if he loses one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness, and go after the one that is lost until he finds it? (Luke 15:4)."
"Revival is waiting for us on the streets. It is hiding from us in nursing homes and prisons. It is calling to us from foreign fields and obscure places. Crying, yearning for even one person that will rise from the confines of normality and pursue it..."
"Conferences charge hundreds of dollars per person to meet budgets that are unnecessary and still the streets only hear an echo of what is preached. Inspiration has become an institution, and the institution has become an industry..."
"We must move beyond conference to confrontation. We must take off the garments of enterprise and put on the garments of eternity..."
"The early church did not have promotion or propaganda. They did not have slogans and banners. They did not have multi-million dollar budgets and WebPages. But one thing they did have, power..."
The well-read and fine-bred
Pentecostalist will
"We have taken the manger and built a cathedral. All the while they perish as we continue to build higher, higher, and higher..."
"Now is the time to shout down the fortified walls of clerical callousness and cry out "GRACE, GRACE" To this mountain of sin that threatens to landslide our youth into oblivion. We must cast off the starched collar of religion and bleed as He bled for their lives and souls."
"When will we shake off the dust of church policy and invade a desperate dying world with His blazing love and compassion? Who will seek the favor of God more than the fading fake favor of man?"
"...if we do not make any attempt to accommodate this generation in our Sunday morning services and conferences, if we make no honest effort to reach out to the youth still hanging out on the corners smoking their cigarettes and listening to Ozzy Osbourne, mark these words, the blood of millions will be on this era of church histories hands...'
"A new breed of ministries will eclipse the old wine skins of previous thinking. They will leap over the boundaries set by their predecessors and pioneer a completely different ministry model. They will not succumb to the pressure of modern pulpits that demand their submission. They will break the yokes of contemporary doctrine to set a new trend of liberty..."
"Revival is an experience not a definition. It can’t be germinated in a test tube of theology; it can only be demonstrated by radical obedience by those who pursue it. It deals with people, not statistics..."
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