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Thanks Valerie for these exhortations. Could we say then that fasting should be something quite common to our Christian walk throughout the year to develop our resistance (spiritual maturing), through the help of the Spirit, over fleshly desires (i.e. food, entertainment, computer time, etc) that ca...

Local outreach - seeking to save those who are lost outside the community

These are some powerful questions to ponder. I think one of the causes is really a lack of faith. When we focus on the Lord Jesus Christ, on His amazing Gospel and power, the enormity of His grace and love, then that faith will ultimately overcome the world, our own flesh and the devil, with all it...

Most Christian groups I have been around have very little to no gifts of the Spirit, spoken of in the NT, operating in their groups. In this area, I have not heard much about earnestly seeking these gifts. Why ? They either believe these gifts were for the early church only or they are just too afr...

As has been posted by others, the early church had a form of Christianity that was 'powerful' in the sense that the supernatural was seen in what they did by unbelievers. One man in the NT even offered money to get this ability to operate in the supernatural. Valerie posted the verse where Paul spok...

A thread to talk about why Christianity (and lets just talk about it here in North America) manifests very little supernatural power in the lives of Christians. In my experience this is true across all of the most liberal to and including the most conservative Christian groups of believers. When I t...

I have sometimes wondered if much of our 'corporate praying' is at all like it was meant to be. Where do we find a leader 'leading us in prayer', in the sense that this person will pray out loud and we will listen and amen silently or audibly to what is being said. I can't find anywere in the NT wer...

I got thinking about this 'death' mentioned whether it could possibly be physical death and not spiritual death. In 1 Cor 11 we read of a warning that taking communion in an unworthy manner results in physical death. I think a strong case can be made that an unworthy manner is one in which a partici...

[bible]2 corintians 3,6[/bible] I wonder if the power that we are missing today to shine forth as Jesus followers is partly due to our reliance on the accuracy of the letter (with all the side tools we have today) and not the Holy Spirit who brings real life - salvation, hope, joy, peace, love, etc....

I read somewhere that early Anabaptists believed that by the Spirit of God, every believer was capable of understanding the scriptures and that although learning things like Greek could help in bible translating, the meaning of scripture could be known by an uneducated person through the Spirit. The...