I Found A Church & Podcast Updates

Ok so I thought I would let you know that I have been attending a church for about a month or so and feel like it is where God is calling me. You can Read 1 Cor chapter 12 to see some church building architectural drawings.

Specifically, as I want to just pull-out verses 18 & 24, we can just look at what I use to determine which church I attend, a process I have used for nearly 30-years as a Christian:

1 Cor 12:18 – 18 But now God has set the members, each one of them, in the body just as He pleased.

1 Cor 12:24 - 24…But God composed the body…

Other determining factors is if the church is doing things Gods way or their denominational/non-denominational way. This church is and is willing to do so until revival breaks out. Oh, I know we have many asking God for revival but secretly they want Him to do revival their way in their style of church. Didn’t the Pharisees want nothing more from Jesus than for Him to express Himself in the way that they thought that He should. It was preposterous to them that if He were really God that He wouldn’t want to do things without so much disruption. Ha, oh boy he himself said:

Matt 10:34 - “Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come to bring peace but a sword.

I have always had it in my mind that I would find a church that would want revival above all things. But oh, no, no this is not the case. Well, that is until now. I know we have some churches that are rockin it with God and thank Him that they are, but I needed something within my own town to do or to at least desire it. Arise Paradise is such a place that I believe we will see a great move of God and in fact we already have.

Let’s touch on the revival element for a minute so that you understand my understanding of what it is and why it is so desired though many ask, few are willing to pay the price.

Revivals and great awakenings, in my biblically supported opinion, represent the normal flow of the book of Acts church most often carried out by normal Christians who discovered what it is to serve God with all their heart, strength, soul, and mind.

The end of past revivals and awakenings events occur simply because of the absence of the unity of those within the events, and but also because of the neglect of equipping the saints for the work of ministry and making disciples. And well even the preposterous action of firing the Holy Spirit asking that he say in the lobby and expressing to Him in our secret places that we will take things from here. The result is that the end of what should be normal Christianity, the revival or awakening comes, and we once again find ourselves in need of the very things that made us spiritually normal.