LIFE ILLUSTRATIONS FROM CHRISTIAN JOURNEY


 

  1. GOD’S BLESSINGS IN THE TRADITIONAL CHURCH!

*25 wonderful years of fruitful ministry and nothing but love appreciation for my Christian heritage: Saved, Licensed, Ordained, Pastor

  1. Lesson on Receiving from Miss Tina Meadows

  2. Ella Graham the blind lady

  3. Witnessing to Earl Philips

  4. Calling Mrs. Gussie Parker

  5. Trip to Grand Saline

  6. Blessings of ten year FBC pastorate

 

  1. STRUGGLES IN COMPARING CHURCH TODAY WITH NEW TESTAMENT CHURCH!

*Years of wrestling with what I saw in Scripture with what I saw in the churches I pastored.

  1. Loving fellowship in Jesus

  2. Breaking bread from house to house

  3. Power of prayer & anointing

  4. Equipping saints for work of ministry

  5. Plurality of leadership

 

  1. FRUSTRATION OF THE NEW WINE SPILLING!

*Struggle with the expectations and demands upon the pastoral role.

  1. Ushers signing petition

  2. Not using bulletin order of service

  3. Keeping baptismal pool filled

  4. Anointing with oil

  5. The Lord told me…God led me

  6. Deacons as servants

 

  1. CRISIS IN MY MINISTRY!

*I just could not take the pressure any more of trying to please God and the people.

  1. Locking myself in my study to seek the face of God

  2. God speaking: “Stop pouring new wine into old wine skins”

  3. God led me to repent of personal sins: priorities, gods, flesh

  4. God showed me the sins of the traditions of the church

  5. God revealed His Church as “meeting from house to house
    under t    he Lordship of Jesus.”

 

5. HEART BREAK OF LEAVING THE SBC!

*Opportunities of going up to larger churches and BGCT.

  1. Resignation letter

  2. “I’d rather them be united against you that divided over you.”

  3. Letter from deacons

  4. Persecution from church members

  5. Persecution from new pastor

  6. Jim Jones’ mass suicide

 

  1. WALKING UNKNOWN PATHS!

*Experiencing a spiritual boot camp

  1. First Sunday of not “going to church”

  2. Liz bringing school clothes to boys

  3. Lord’s Supper as meal: little black boy

  4. Ask husbands at home

  5. Washing feet

 

  1. PAIN OF LAYING DOWN “MY MINISTRY”!

*Struggling with feelings of failure and death to a vision

  1. Son’s fornication

  2. Rejection of “house church” members

  3. Condemnation of prophet brother (I Samuel 1:3; 2:22-25; 4:4,11-22)

  4. Tent making decision

  5. Learning to be a servant

  6. Struggle of waiting on God

  7. Son wanting to change his name

 

  1. JOY OF GOD RAISING UP HIS MINISTRY!

* 12 years of Testing

  1. Put brief case in the closet (6 Volumes)

  2. Put brief case beside the bed

  3. Clean out the brief case

  4. Brief case becomes a suitcase of 20+ volumes

  5. Willingness to give up teachings to someone else

  6. Dream of singing “I’m Learning To Serve”

  7. Songs in the night: “O Bless The Name Of Jesus”

 

  1. MARCHING ORDERS!

*God restores the vision and raises up “His Ministry”

  1. Signed papers sale of B&B property at 3 PM Thursday and on airplane next day to Clemson University in South Carolina to teach at a House Church Conference

  2. Internet/E-mail/Web-site ministry http://www.churchrestoration.org

  3. Traveling ministry of itinerant apostolic equipping teams

  4. Apostle ministry/FBC pastor/Guests of party

  5. “Gathering” of equipping leaders November 5-7, 1999 in Winnsboro

  6. Equipping of leadership at our “hired house”

  7. Dream of puddles of water

  8. Dream of hewning stones

  9. Prophetic voices: “Give Me back My Church!”

  10. Apostolic voices: “I want my Church in order!”

  11. Church coming together: “Hearing clicking noise”

  12. “Suddenly coming to pass” (Isaiah 48:3)

  13. Ezekiel’s bones (Exekiel 37:1-13)

  14. Church of Jerusalem, Antioch and Ephesus

  15. Church in Winnsboro

  16. Teach in House Church Conference at Olgelthorpe University in Atlanta Georgia

  17. FBC Intentional Interim Committee

  18. Prayer gatherings throughout the area

  19. Ministry to the whole Body of Christ in Winnsboro

  20. Traveling as missionary teams to China, India, Philippines, Indonesia, Africa, etc.

  21. Connecting of equipping leaders from around the world

  22. Spiritual father and son relationships in many nations


 

A prophetic word for the Church: “To the saints of the Remnant

Church! (See attachment)


 


 

 

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