There is so much rhetoric and talk these days about method and practice.
A few years ago I came across this analogy that explains what really matters:
All this rhetoric about methodology and practice concerning systems, style, and technique is like focusing on building a better mouse trap and not even considering that our cheese might be toxic.
So, big deal, we have a better way of delivering our bad cheese.
Our thinking must be deeper than merely changing our approach and mechanics. Changing our meeting form is easy. Giving up theologies we have been devoted to for decades is a much bigger nut to crack - especially when peoples sense of self, significance, and purpose are bound up in those theologies.
Scaling down the same old same old, same old is not spiritual progress.
If you have water in your low octane gasoline, you could perfectly drive, a perfectly tuned, perfectly detailed 2022 Lamborghini, and you will end up on the side of the road next to the guy who was using the same bad gasoline in his perfectly tuned 2001 Mercury: both going nowhere.
It is the message that matters. To speak as an oracle of God.
"If anyone speaks, let him speak as the oracles of God." (1 Peter 4:11)
This is the purpose of our many books and writings over the years.
NOTE: Consider adding any number of these to your library:
THE OIL OF THE HOLY GHOST
When the prophet spoke my spirit jumped. The babe leaped in my womb.
The oil of the Holy Ghost is what distinguishes a pep talk from an oracle. This is also what distinguishes an organizational and institutional church from an organic and oily one.
The following quote from A.W. Tozer says it all:
"It is possible to run a church without the Holy Spirit, which is the terrible thing. You organize it. You get a board, a pastor, a choir, a ladies aid society and a Sunday school, and you get all organized. I believe in organization. I am not against it, I am for it. You get organized, and you get a pastor to turn the crank, and that is all there is to it. The Holy Ghost can leave, and the pastor goes on turning the crank, and nobody finds it out for five years. Oh, what a horrible tragedy to the Church of Christ."
"Revive Your churches, oh God!"
Bert Farias' books are forerunners to personal holiness, the move of God and the return of the Lord. They also combat the departure from the faith and the turning away from the truth we are seeing in our day. His recent five-book bundle, written under a fresh anointing, is a forerunner of what the Lord is doing in His church today. His newest release, Turning Your Trials Into Gold, is a powerful testimony of how God raised up Bert and his wife Carolyn from a sick bed and near death.
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