7-9-15
Two lengthy conversations today and a few casual greetings.
First I engaged a young Christian lady by commenting on her necklace that led into more chit chat. Later I discovered that she was. Struggling with Hazzimoto disease. I got the chance to pray for her healing. When I asked what she was experiencing in her body, she tried to find words and finally David it was hard to describe. I asked, if it was heat and she said yes, but you could tell that didn't quite describe what she felt. I told her that she was experiencing The Holy Spirit. We continues to talk about my vision and that this prayer and time with her was a part of it. I'm hoping to see her again and hear a good report.
Then I ran into a gym acquaintance and we chatted, and about him and when he asked about me I explained my journey into this spiritual walk. He showed interest as I continued to describe my journey into ministering healing in the community. I got a chance to charge my vision of interfacing with people in public locations like Starbucks. He seems to have understood basic Christian concepts and look for another opportunity to reveal more to him.
7-10-15
I was somewhat reluctant to go out today. But went anyway talking to Holy Spirit
I opened a conversation with a man with an arm sling, but he didn't really open up to me and went back to his phone. There was another lady I heard singing quietly so I asked if she was a singer.mwenchatted a little and then stopped. Then Brenda came in and we chatted and fellowshipped awhile and Brenda went to get her coffee. The singing lady, Brenda told me later, was listening to our conversation got up to leave and I asked her if she had any pain or sickness. She has a knee pain as she hobbles a little. She let me pray for her and Holy Spirit took all the pain away. She was quite amazed even though she was a Christian. You could tell she was baffled as she mentally was trying to fit it into her christian paradigm, she left with a bewildered look on her face. By that time Brenda came over with her coffee and we chatted. Then, the man with sling got up to leave but Brenda told him we wanted to pray for his shoulder. He seemed to have a slurring of speech and tremors in addition to the sling. He revealed he had had an injury to his head. We prayed for him and he said he would have to wait till the morning to see if it was better. He said goodby and left but came back later and came to chat some more, finally leaving with some more prayer.
As Brenda and I fellowshipped more we were interrupted by three Christian men that I hadn't seen for various lengths of time. I has an opportunity to share my vision with all of them and cot contact information to stay in touch. One young man said he had heard pastor's message online and was going to come visit our church.
I thank God for all he did over a simple cup of coffee.
Friday, July 10, 2015
The Vision
Organic Discipleship - A Strategy for Discipling A City. Draft2
Introduction
God has given me a strategy for reaching a city, region, and a nation. Believers in Jesus often gather in Christian enclaves spending countless hours involved with church matters, and only occasionally venture out in the community to engage those of the world.
Jesus spent much of his time in the society teaching, preaching, healing and ministering to people's needs. He took his disciples with him when he ministered, and taught them on the go. The center of His life was Organic Discipleship - A Strategy for Discipling A City, region, even nations. This was the plan that enabled him to establish His Church. Jesus emphasis was not upon the Church Structure but upon the work of proclaiming The Kingdom and validating it with signs, wonders, and miracles.
Rationale for The Strategy
A Lesson from the kitchen can be learned from trying to dissolve a lump of rock sugar and an equal amount of granulated sugar. The granulated sugar dissolves faster than the solid lump. Why? Because smaller particles have a greater surface area than the one solid lump. This allows the granulated sugar to have a larger interface with the water than the sugar lump.
Our Church communities are like the lumps of sugar having very little contact with the unsaved unless a few wander into our service.
The Strategy
The vision that I have is, that like the small grains of granulated sugar, the church members break themselves into very small groups that would hang out at community locations like Starbucks and Panera Bread, sipping a Latte', looking for opportunities to be friendly and loving to the folks there. If we did this on a regular basis at a certain time, we would soon get to know the regular patrons. From these contacts, conversations and opportunities for ministry will quickly present themselves. Here is an opportunity for believers to create an interface between the Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of this World so that the World would have an authentic encounter with Jesus through one of his sons.
Implementation
This plan presuppose that the leaders have already trained disciples who know their identity as mature sons and so are able to heal the sick and give a witness of who Jesus is, and to preach the Gospel. Today, there are many ordinary folks healing people on the streets. Two ministries that activate or kickstart believers are, Torben Sondergaard of The Last Reformation, and Pete Cabrera Jr.'s School of Identity and Lifestyle. To learn more about these resources you may contact me.
Begin by establishing a new personal routine that includes an hour for relaxing at your favorite "watering hole" that fits your schedule. Be faithful to the time commitment. You will soon get to know folks. Engage them naturally in conversation, not being pushy. Soon you will be given opportunities for ministry.
Introduction
God has given me a strategy for reaching a city, region, and a nation. Believers in Jesus often gather in Christian enclaves spending countless hours involved with church matters, and only occasionally venture out in the community to engage those of the world.
Jesus spent much of his time in the society teaching, preaching, healing and ministering to people's needs. He took his disciples with him when he ministered, and taught them on the go. The center of His life was Organic Discipleship - A Strategy for Discipling A City, region, even nations. This was the plan that enabled him to establish His Church. Jesus emphasis was not upon the Church Structure but upon the work of proclaiming The Kingdom and validating it with signs, wonders, and miracles.
Rationale for The Strategy
A Lesson from the kitchen can be learned from trying to dissolve a lump of rock sugar and an equal amount of granulated sugar. The granulated sugar dissolves faster than the solid lump. Why? Because smaller particles have a greater surface area than the one solid lump. This allows the granulated sugar to have a larger interface with the water than the sugar lump.
Our Church communities are like the lumps of sugar having very little contact with the unsaved unless a few wander into our service.
The Strategy
The vision that I have is, that like the small grains of granulated sugar, the church members break themselves into very small groups that would hang out at community locations like Starbucks and Panera Bread, sipping a Latte', looking for opportunities to be friendly and loving to the folks there. If we did this on a regular basis at a certain time, we would soon get to know the regular patrons. From these contacts, conversations and opportunities for ministry will quickly present themselves. Here is an opportunity for believers to create an interface between the Kingdom of God and the Kingdom of this World so that the World would have an authentic encounter with Jesus through one of his sons.
Implementation
This plan presuppose that the leaders have already trained disciples who know their identity as mature sons and so are able to heal the sick and give a witness of who Jesus is, and to preach the Gospel. Today, there are many ordinary folks healing people on the streets. Two ministries that activate or kickstart believers are, Torben Sondergaard of The Last Reformation, and Pete Cabrera Jr.'s School of Identity and Lifestyle. To learn more about these resources you may contact me.
Begin by establishing a new personal routine that includes an hour for relaxing at your favorite "watering hole" that fits your schedule. Be faithful to the time commitment. You will soon get to know folks. Engage them naturally in conversation, not being pushy. Soon you will be given opportunities for ministry.
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