Why Living Life “On Call” Is Better Than Being “Called” into Ministry
Nothing quenches the Holy Spirit more and self-disqualifies a person from the game like the categories of “called to ministry,” and “just a layperson.”
Nothing quenches the Holy Spirit more and self-disqualifies a person from the game like the categories of “called to ministry,” and “just a layperson.”
The CEO model of church leadership has taken a toll on a leader’s ability to practice the three-fold ministry of Jesus: preaching, teaching, and healing.
The Church, under the Lordship of Jesus Christ through the power of the Holy Spirit, is designed to be a decentralized lay movement.
Though Jesus told us the world would hate us as it hated him, expect for most of the criticism to come from the insiders.
Not only does the Holy Spirit illuminate the gospel to us, he carries it out to its fullest meaning.
We preachers today have found a way to be a lot more reductionistic with the gospel while at the same time being a lot more long-winded.
The Holy Spirit pushed hard on the gospel’s boundaries when he issued an invitation to a Jewish follower of Jesus to come into a Gentile’s home and preach the gospel.
People who aren’t living life in the big framework of the gospel will struggle to recognize the voice of the Holy Spirit.