LIFE ILLUSTRATIONS FROM CHRISTIAN JOURNEY
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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
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Lesson on Receiving from Miss Tina Meadows
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Ella Graham the blind lady
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Witnessing to Earl Philips
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Calling Mrs. Gussie Parker
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Trip to Grand Saline
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Blessings of ten year FBC pastorate
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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.
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Loving fellowship in Jesus
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Breaking bread from house to house
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Power of prayer & anointing
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Equipping saints for work of ministry
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Plurality of leadership
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FRUSTRATION OF THE NEW WINE SPILLING!
*Struggle with the expectations and demands
upon the pastoral role.
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Ushers signing petition
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Not using bulletin order of service
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Keeping baptismal pool filled
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Anointing with oil
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The Lord told me…God led me
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Deacons as servants
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CRISIS IN MY MINISTRY!
*I just could not take the
pressure any more of trying to please God and the people.
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Locking myself in my study to seek the
face of God
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God speaking: “Stop pouring new wine into
old wine skins”
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God led me to repent of personal sins:
priorities, gods, flesh
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God showed me the sins of the traditions
of the church
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God revealed His Church as “meeting from
house to house
under the
Lordship of Jesus.”
5. HEART BREAK OF LEAVING THE SBC!
*Opportunities of going up to larger churches
and BGCT.
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Resignation letter
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“I’d rather them
be united against you that divided over you.”
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Letter from deacons
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Persecution from church members
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Persecution from new pastor
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Jim Jones’ mass suicide
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WALKING UNKNOWN PATHS!
*Experiencing a spiritual boot camp
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First Sunday of not “going to church”
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Liz bringing school clothes to boys
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Lord’s Supper as meal: little black boy
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Ask husbands at home
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Washing feet
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PAIN OF LAYING DOWN “MY MINISTRY”!
*Struggling with feelings of failure and death
to a vision
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Son’s fornication
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Rejection of “house church” members
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Condemnation of prophet brother (I Samuel
1:3; 2:22-25; 4:4,11-22)
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Tent making decision
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Learning to be a servant
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Struggle of waiting on God
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Son wanting to change his name
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JOY OF GOD RAISING UP HIS MINISTRY!
* 12 years of Testing
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Put brief case in the closet (6 Volumes)
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Put brief case beside the bed
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Clean out the brief case
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Brief case becomes a suitcase of 20+
volumes
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Willingness to give up teachings to
someone else
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Dream of singing “I’m Learning To Serve”
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Songs in the night: “O Bless The Name Of
Jesus”
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MARCHING ORDERS!
*God restores the vision and raises up “His
Ministry”
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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
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Internet/E-mail/Web-site ministry
http://www.churchrestoration.org
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Traveling ministry of itinerant apostolic
equipping teams
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Apostle ministry/FBC pastor/Guests of
party
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“Gathering” of
equipping leaders November 5-7, 1999 in Winnsboro
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Equipping of leadership at our “hired
house”
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Dream of puddles of water
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Dream of hewning stones
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Prophetic voices: “Give Me back My
Church!”
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Apostolic voices: “I want my Church in
order!”
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Church coming together: “Hearing clicking
noise”
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“Suddenly coming
to pass” (Isaiah 48:3)
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Ezekiel’s bones (Exekiel 37:1-13)
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Church of Jerusalem, Antioch and Ephesus
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Church in Winnsboro
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Teach in House Church
Conference at Olgelthorpe University in Atlanta Georgia
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FBC Intentional Interim Committee
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Prayer gatherings throughout the area
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Ministry to the whole Body of Christ in
Winnsboro
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Traveling as missionary teams to China,
India, Philippines, Indonesia, Africa, etc.
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Connecting of equipping leaders from
around the world
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Spiritual father and son relationships in
many nations
A prophetic word for the Church: “To the
saints of the Remnant
Church!
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