Our passion is to imitate the ministry of Jesus in the power of the Spirit. This requires we must follow Jesus out of baptismal waters, through our personal deserts, and into the harvest. We want to take the ammunition of the balanced evangelical theology with the fire power of Pentecostal practice, loading & readying the best of both worlds to hit the target of making & nurturing disciples.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the importance of embodying the teachings of Jesus through personal experiences and community engagement.
John Wimber's quote speaks to the calling of Christians to actively participate in the ministry as exemplified by Jesus Christ, blending theological understanding with practical, Spirit-led action. It highlights the journey from personal struggles to fulfilling a larger mission of making and nurturing disciples, suggesting that a balance of sound doctrine and passionate practice is essential for effective ministry.
In practice
In a church sermon discussing the importance of practical ministry.
Many Christians and Christian leaders have been neutralized by the love of money and materialism. The homage paid to affluence becomes a burden that saps our energy as well as our love for God and other people...Like Jesus and Paul, we can learn to be content with what we have, living modestly in order that we may give liberally to the work of the kingdom and to meet the needs of others.
Instead of focusing on the great men of God, I prefer to focus on the Great God of men.
It seems the more I think about not sinning, the more I sin, but the more I think about just loving Jesus, the less I seem to sin. Falling in love seems to be the key.
We learned that what happens when we are alone with the Lord determines how intimate and deep the worship will be when we come together.
In the most intimate, hidden and innermost ground of the soul, God is always essentially, actively, and substantially present. Here the soul possesses everything by grace which God possesses by nature.
Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's gift of Himself.
In the inner stillness where meditation leads, the Spirit secretly anoints the soul and heals our deepest wounds.
God answers all true prayer, either in kind or in kindness.
Vocal prayer . . . must be accompanied by reflection. A prayer in which a person is not aware of Whom he is speaking to, what he is asking, who it is who is asking and of Whom, I don't call prayer-however much the lips may move.
Prayer is not so much a way to find God as a way of resting in him...who loves us, who is near to us.
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