 | Knowing God - What I truly believe?
Many Christians these days believe about God and can name his divine nature well, and can tell others what they believe about the doctrines.
But their experiences with God Himself are mostly shallow-based and can not go deep in their walk and talk for various reasons.
I feel most disappointed in finding out it is so from among so called leaders of the church.
I would rather tell the true and whole story, for instance, how God carried me through more than 10 years out of work without family support, within minimal church and government support, in order to help the hearers see it for themselves.
I believe that we do lack "strong stories" to tell these days in our witnessing at church, at work, at home and at school. Our strong testimonies are one of the most convincing tools we often overlook to work at carefully and consistently when we seek to edify one another in relationship.
Doctrines need to be taught in manners of great wisdom and understanding, instead of spoon feeding,knowing how to lead and guide your audience into correctly handling the word of truth and competently discerning spirits, arguments and opinions from the truth. This is a very important step for our spiritual growth and development. By doing well in this area, it can have great impact on our choices, decision making and values system by which every part of our life is affected for the better and for the worse.
Let me put these verses before us all to chew over: Out of overflow of the heart the month speaks. The fruit of the lips increases learning. |
