Returning to the "Good 'ole days"

Yesterday was another milestone. Well, kind of, maybe not really, we finished our second ISD (Institute for Spiritiual Development) class, we are now finished 102 Advanced Prophetic Ministry.

So that's cool. I'm not sure what's going to be taking place of that in our mornings, but I'm sure I'll find out soon enough.

Last night Recie Saunders came and imparted to us and tonight is Greg or Patty Mapes, I think they are each doing a week, Greg is the president of Streams Ministries and Patty is the Chancellor, I'm not really sure what that is, I may or may not get back to you on that...

Having Recie speak was really good, he travels with Scott Evelyn a lot, they do a lot of ministry together. They go to Burning Man all the time and other new age events. He talked more about different events and gave us a bunch of amazing testamonies from different events they go to. They have high level witches and psychics getting saved all the time, it's really really neat.

Alot of what I got out of what he was saying was about being religious. How so often we christians feel compelled to, if we get an inch, we take a mile. So if someone seems vaguely interested in spiritual things, we blurt out their need for Jesus. but that's not even how Jesus did it. Thinking specifically of the woman at the well in the gospels, Jesus let here pursue him, he'd answer her questions, but he never pushed her or gave her more than she asked. Finally, she asked him for the life giving water. He didn't blurt out when he met her, "Man you've had a lot of divorces, you sure need me with that kind of track record."

We need to let God do what He wants to do. We can't approach people with an agenda. People can see your agenda from a mile away. Thinking that we need to say "You need Jesus Christ!", to every person who we talk to is pushing our religious agenda. If we are going out to get people saved, that's an agenda, it's assuming we know what God wants to do better than he does. Instead, we need to just go out there and love people. Let the spirit does what he wants. Maybe, just maybe, all an encounter with someone is meant to be, is just to plant some seeds, to create a deficit in them for everyday life.

Just being here and listening to all these amazing people and going out on these outreaches has drastically changed my view on evangelism. I never used to really like evangelism because I hate convincing people. I'm not good at arguing people to the Lord like it seems other people are. But, this just takes the pressure off. I'm learning to approach it only with God's agenda, just let him do what he wants, just love them people and see what happens. If I feel like I have to convince someone, that's me getting in again, God doesn't need me to defend Him. I'm learning to talk to someone, just as long as He wants me to, not to keep going and going. Like Jesus said, I only do what I see my Father doing, that's what I want evangelism to be for me.