Re: 11.5 days completed...
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Re: 11.5 days completed...
I understand completely.
My Pastor had to start preaching stronger sermons because the Calvinists that had joined our church were taking on teaching positions and causing all sorts of problems for the church. ( of course this was mostly the fault of non-discerning Elders who chose them in the first place)
Not that they were not decent, hard working people...it's just that their teachings where not of the beliefs of the church completely. Even though it's great going to a small church, you have less people to choose from to teach and serve. Many become Elders or Deacons before anyone really gets a chance to see what they believe fully. Hyper-Calvinists can blend in when they want to and only if they speak up in sunday school, may you even know that they believe differently...it's when they get into teaching/preaching positions, when you really find out the truth.
We have one family in the church who are highly involved and are not only hyper-calvinists, but are also Preterists, who are talking about moving. Another Preterist family already moved as well. I can't help but wonder if it is due to the stronger sermons of our pastor who is finally recognizing the problem. I will miss them, but I won't miss their teachings. However, it means less people in the church and less to serve for a while....but God will provide...He always does.
I loved reading this about Finney. His personal encounter sounded so familiar in some ways.
The 29-year-old lawyer Charles Grandison Finney had decided he must settle the question of his soul's salvation. So on October 10, 1821, he headed out into the woods near his Adams, New York, home to find God. "I will give my heart to God, or I never will come down from there," he said. After several hours, he returned to his office, where he experienced such forceful emotion that he questioned those who could not testify to a similar encounter.
"The Holy Spirit … seemed to go through me, body and soul," he later wrote. "I could feel the impression, like a wave of electricity, going through and through me. Indeed it seemed to come in waves of liquid love, for I could not express it in any other way."
The next morning, Finney returned to his law office to meet with a client whose case he was about to argue. "I have a retainer from the Lord Jesus Christ to plead his cause," he told the man, "and cannot plead yours."
And so began the new career of the man who would become the leading revivalist in the nineteenth century.
So glad to hear that your fast is going so wonderfully. God is so good. :)
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