Signs and Wonders?
Tonight heard a guy speak on Jesus calming the storm and casting out the demonds in the man called legion. In all it was a good sermone! But he emphasised Signs and Wonders are for today! This is something I'm not entirely sure about!
First do I want them today? Yes would be my immediate reply, after all which christion dosent want to see God's power at work? But I have a problem here, in my many years in christian ministry I have heard a lot about Signs and Wonders but seen very little. So is this wishfull thinking, a sort of evangelical desperation, or is their more, a more that we have not tapped into?
I dont know about you but my Bible seems to promise far more that we ever get. On other hand charrismatic type churches just leave me empty, and teaching woefully lacking in them. I must confess that I have found Evangelical Calvanistic churches better with teaching to a degree than many other groups, but teaching/doctrine seems to be the all in all there. We speak about the sanctified life, but few seem to find it, to live it, or even to understand fully what it is!
Signs and wonders, Baptism in the Holy Spirit, Entire Sanctification, I still want them all...but where are they, are they still with us today? My feeling is, that evangelical christianity has lost it bearings, its way, the powere scriptures seem to promise. I'm fed up making excuses, are you?
First do I want them today? Yes would be my immediate reply, after all which christion dosent want to see God's power at work? But I have a problem here, in my many years in christian ministry I have heard a lot about Signs and Wonders but seen very little. So is this wishfull thinking, a sort of evangelical desperation, or is their more, a more that we have not tapped into?
I dont know about you but my Bible seems to promise far more that we ever get. On other hand charrismatic type churches just leave me empty, and teaching woefully lacking in them. I must confess that I have found Evangelical Calvanistic churches better with teaching to a degree than many other groups, but teaching/doctrine seems to be the all in all there. We speak about the sanctified life, but few seem to find it, to live it, or even to understand fully what it is!
Signs and wonders, Baptism in the Holy Spirit, Entire Sanctification, I still want them all...but where are they, are they still with us today? My feeling is, that evangelical christianity has lost it bearings, its way, the powere scriptures seem to promise. I'm fed up making excuses, are you?
posted by Chaplain Gentles at 12:40 PM
3 Comments:
I believe signs and wonders are still around today. However we as modern man fail to reconize then as such. Todays believers are so involved with the world they fail to give God credit for the wonders he preforms. The sun still rises and set as in the begining each one still contains Gods wonders. Every believers life is guilded by Gods signs if they take the time to listen and understand. Gods signs and wonders may not lead to the grand and glories rewards here on earth most people look for but they lead us to a much grander reward to come. rvk
I agree, here in London there is so much noise, and so little nature in the raw, for uas to stand back and admire natural God created wonders.
My feeling, writing from A UK perspective, is the signs and wonders movement has said much and produce little, if anything.
Yeah - I have wobbled a bit over the years on the signs and wonders movement but I'm not convinced that much is delivered - there is generally other explanations for the miracles and I don't see anything wrong with being sceptical. It's not a matter of what God can do - it's whether or not he is working in a special way in a particular situation. And I agree that we should see his work in the ordinary things of life - the older we get, the more we have to look back on. The three key things for me are
1. Instead of eternity in hell, I have eternity in heaven. If there was nothing else, this would be infinitely more than enough.
2. A sense of purpose and meaning that would not be there if I were not a Christian - or at least would not have a solid foundation.
3. Knowing that I can get up again every time I fall. If I go through a dull or dry period, I emerge again with joy unspeakable.
I'm not saying that we should be content or complacent - we should look for more but from God himself rather than from books or movements. After all these years - including a year with LCM (where I once carried a piano up a stairs with Ian Gentiles), the Christians I warm to are the ones who are honest about things.
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