Comments on: Together on a Mission 07

By: TOAM 2011

TOAM 2011 — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 05:48:21 +0000

[...] on the subject of accountability and developing a culture of discipleship within the church since I first heard him at TOAM a few years ago. This time he took us through John 4, highlighting the importance of communicating the acceptance [...]

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 23:58:42 +0000

Yes he did indeed – at Life in the Spirit Conference in 1991.

This just occured to me. Can it be possible that we orthodox obsessed evangelicals could become guilty of the parable of the talents burying it in the ground because we are so afraid of getting it wrong or making mistakes?

Paralysis by analysis … i don’t think there are any prizes for doing nothing when Jesus returns. It says our works will be tested by fire. What will there be to test if we never did anything in case we got it wrong and got used of the flesh or the devil?

By: S A J Burgess

S A J Burgess — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 21:52:57 +0000

Amen. Didn’t Dr Ern Baxter have a phrase for this danger?

“The paralysis of analysis”.

SAJB

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 21:20:56 +0000

I’ve just listened to Training Track 1 from the Prophecy stream. Julian Adams – the speaker – made an important point that I think is helpful in the whole ‘discernment’ thing. He said;

“Have more faith in God’s ability to lead you and the devil’s ability to deceive you. The Church speaks all the time of seeing demons and caution and guarding and discerning – but the Bible says in Luke 11:11 if we ask the Holy Spirit He will not give anything demonic. We must be indeed wary of the devil’s strategies but have more faith in the Lord’s ability to lead into ever increasing ability than the devil’s ability to trip us up”.

Let’s not be so concerned about error and the counterfeit that we don’t dare step into the genuine.