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Results from: Answered Bible Questions, Answers, Unanswered Bible Questions, Notes Author: Bobby Conner Ordered by Date |
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1 | Jesus Wept - (Jn.11:35) | Not Specified | Bobby Conner | 148807 | ||
Prepared To Cry... and Willing? I think often the Holy Spirit will move across a congregation, and He will want to do a cleansing on a man or woman; but we oftentimes are so insecure and 'to' people conscience... that we will not allow ourselves to cry. I don't think I have ever heard a Pastor talk about this. To prepare people to cry. We can shout, we can clap, we can dance... but cry? Prepare them to cry. A pastor might say, I want you to breakdown right where you are... without restraint. Don't listen to the thought that says, "you can get alone with God later... cry at home. You'll never do it!" And for those who are around you... for whom it is not there time to cry, will you be extra sensitive to not shame or embarrass your sister or brother? Why not bow your head and pray for them when you sense that this is about to happen? We cannot predict when the Spirit will move on us... and stay heavily on us... but when He does, be ready! Everybody get into your positions. Let's learn it together... keep it at the forefront of our minds. We know how to celebrate, but do we know how to give ourselves completely away to the Spirit? I think this message needs to be one of the keys to any healthy congregation. To return to the days of D.L. Moody who often cried because the Spirit would move so heavily upon him. To ignore it... is to rob the assembly. All of Christendom can benefit from a tearful cleansing... and Pastors need to help get the congregation conditioned to accept it. I've never heard it, nor often repeated. Return to tears and be cleansed... not ashamed. Bobby Conner... |
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2 | Jesus Wept - (Jn.11:35) | Bible general Archive 2 | Bobby Conner | 148813 | ||
Prepared To Cry... and Willing? I think often the Holy Spirit will move across a congregation, and He will want to do a cleansing on a man or woman; but we oftentimes are so insecure and 'to' people conscience... that we will not allow ourselves to cry. I don't think I have ever heard a Pastor talk about this. To prepare people to cry. We can shout, we can clap, we can dance... but cry? Prepare them to cry. A pastor might say, I want you to breakdown right where you are... without restraint. Don't listen to the thought that says, "you can get alone with God later... cry at home. You'll never do it!" And for those who are around you... for whom it is not there time to cry, will you be extra sensitive to not shame or embarrass your sister or brother? Why not bow your head and pray for them when you sense that this is about to happen? We cannot predict when the Spirit will move on us... and stay heavily on us... but when He does, be ready! Everybody get into your positions. Let's learn it together... keep it at the forefront of our minds. We know how to celebrate, but do we know how to give ourselves completely away to the Spirit? I think this message needs to be one of the keys to any healthy congregation. To return to the days of D.L. Moody who often cried because the Spirit would move so heavily upon him. To ignore it... is to rob the assembly. All of Christendom can benefit from a tearful cleansing... and Pastors need to help get the congregation conditioned to accept it. I've never heard it, nor often repeated. Return to tears and be cleansed... not ashamed. Bobby Conner... |
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3 | Jesus Wept - (Jn.11:35) | John 11:35 | Bobby Conner | 148811 | ||
Prepared To Cry... and Willing? I think often the Holy Spirit will move across a congregation, and He will want to do a cleansing on a man or woman; but we oftentimes are so insecure and 'to' people conscience... that we will not allow ourselves to cry. I don't think I have ever heard a Pastor talk about this. To prepare people to cry. We can shout, we can clap, we can dance... but cry? Prepare them to cry. A pastor might say, I want you to breakdown right where you are... without restraint. Don't listen to the thought that says, "you can get alone with God later... cry at home. You'll never do it!" And for those who are around you... for whom it is not there time to cry, will you be extra sensitive to not shame or embarrass your sister or brother? Why not bow your head and pray for them when you sense that this is about to happen? We cannot predict when the Spirit will move on us... and stay heavily on us... but when He does, be ready! Everybody get into your positions. Let's learn it together... keep it at the forefront of our minds. We know how to celebrate, but do we know how to give ourselves completely away to the Spirit? I think this message needs to be one of the keys to any healthy congregation. To return to the days of D.L. Moody who often cried because the Spirit would move so heavily upon him. To ignore it... is to rob the assembly. All of Christendom can benefit from a tearful cleansing... and Pastors need to help get the congregation conditioned to accept it. I've never heard it, nor often repeated. Return to tears and be cleansed... not ashamed. Bobby Conner... |
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4 | What happened to following 1 Cor.14 | Gal 3:3 | Bobby Conner | 148378 | ||
Thanks, to those who shared their opinions on the question that I submitted, however I am still... very much of the opinion that they do not provide reasonable God evidence to null and void the instruction that Paul so carefully detailed in Chapter 14. I believe God gave us the right instruction from the beginning, regardless of how our culture might change. Today's systems seem to be, "change with the culture." I am against this, to a certain degree. Abandoning the model of chapter 14, is not moving forward, it is throwing it out, so that other men could devise something different. The apostle devotes this chapter, giving guidelines to the whole Church (when gathered together), that this would provide for a normally functioning body. He says in verse 3, (up to three) prophets should be allowed to bring edification, exhortation, and comfort to the congregation, yet today, it's all one pastor/teacher. A very different model. Jesus said of the Spirit, "you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it began nor where it will go... (paraphrased)." That speaks to me of something that man cannot devise or have an outline for. Yet today, when the whole Church is gathered together (in one place v.23), that is about the extent of it, one man or woman following an outline. Very planned and very un-like life. But the unplanned, supernatural-life move and word of God (through prophets and others), this nourishes the body. Paul included them in the model... he was instructing that they be allowed to minister as the Lord inspired them, this was the norm. I think it's also interesting that the apostle does not turn Corinth away from it, instead he gives his blessing to it. He only clarifies the guidelines, so that it doesn't lead into something confusing (which it may have already done). Today, 1 Pastor/teacher speaks, while the rest sit there, unable to share or help apply or add to the message or exercise their gifts ( right then, while the whole body is met together v.23), is not life-like. It is a model and system (probably handed down from the Church in Rome), a man-made model, that ties the body up, it is religion. It is likened to Terri Schavio. It lacks the very nourishment that God said he would give through these offices and outpourings (verse 3). The model we follow, does not promote getting the unplanned (life-like) supernatural mind of the Spirit, instead the system we follow, helps account for the 1 million people leaving the Church every year to follow something greater, at their own home Church's (according to George Barna - 2005). Now, this is not something new, it is a model that has bothered people like me, for years. And this attributes to the 10 million people in the USA that are un-churched. Ten million were once in Church, but they have left and SOME have left because of this lack of real life and the power manifested by God. In Kansas City or Denver Colorado there are empty Church buildings on every corner. As a side-note: Turning up the amplifiers and making the services into more of a rock concert will not bring God's true power to the congregation, either... yet this seems to be the trend. Real life across the evangelical congregations that I've been too (including Pentecostals), follow a model after someone who null and voided the first... and I don't think it was God. As far as Paul's model leading into chaos... any supernatural move of the Spirit may seem chaotic at first, so that is why Paul instructs some guidelines (e.g. only 2 or 3 prophets speak and probably a limited number of other things allowed). For love, Bobby Conner. |
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5 | Considering the "senses" | 2 Cor 4:18 | Bobby Conner | 148228 | ||
Ray wrote, "In praying to God in the early morning hours of this morning, I thanked Him for my five senses; sight, touch, hearing, smell, and taste. I also thought of other common senses known to man; sense of worth, sense of accomplishment, sense of humor. What sense and Scripture come to your mind when considering these things? - From the heart, Ray." What came to my mind Ray, was; "walk not by sight... look not at the things which are seen... lean not on your own understanding... renew your mind... put on the new man." I'm not meaning to come across as putting down what you are thanking the Father for, but it did get me to thinking. These same things (our senses), oftentimes keep us from totally walking by faith... totally trusting Him. I'm not advocating that we ask the Father to do away with them (remove them, ouch!), but rather to renew our minds towards not trusting them all-together... all the time. I pray I continue to learn, to trust the Father first, regardless of the arguments that I can possibly perceive with my senses. That's what came to my mind, I’m thankful for my senses, but I’m also learning not to trust them first. Blessings, Bobby Conner |
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6 | What happened to following 1 Cor.14 | Not Specified | Bobby Conner | 148217 | ||
Only One Pastor Speaks? Whatever happened to following the 1 Cor.14 model for Church service? How have we come up with the model that most follow today (e,g. one person speaks, the rest only listen)? Who decided on the model we have... Catholic's? Thanks Bobby Conner |
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7 | What happened to following 1 Cor.14 | Gal 3:3 | Bobby Conner | 148221 | ||
Only One Pastor Speaks? Whatever happened to following the 1 Cor.14 model for Church service? How have we come up with the model that most follow today (e,g. one person speaks, the rest only listen)? Who decided on the model we have... Catholic's? Thanks Bobby Conner |
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