As a Christmas gift my parents bought me the book Kingdom Triangle, by J.P. Moreland. It is the book that Moreland is calling his manifesto, and for good reason too. In it he is urgently trying to awaken the Church to a three-fold vision: The recovery of Knowledge, the Renovation of the Soul, and the Restoration of the Kingdom’s Miraculous Power.
The following is a quote from the book:
A major factor in the current revival in the Third World—by some estimates, up to 70 percent of it—is intimately connected to signs and wonders as expressions of the love of the Christian Father-God, the lordship of his Son, and the power of his Spirit and His Kingdom. A manifestation of the supernatural power of God through healings, demonic deliverances, and the prophetic are central to what is going on today. Jenkins goes so far as to say that for Third World Christians and the explosive growth of the church in their communities, the heart of the matter is “the critical idea that God intervenes daily in everyday life,” an intervention that is an expression of the power of God’s Kingdom.
I have often wondered when the Western Church is going to catch on to this overwhelming reality. And I believe that books like Kingdom Triangle are evidence that the catch is coming soon, or has already begun.
You can visit the book's website at www.kingdomtriangle.com
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The world has problems it can't solve. And the church has power it won't use...except for self-gratification.
One of the biggest challenges facing the 21st Century American church is that we are so caught up in being "post-modern" that we haven't yet realized we are living in the same kind of world Jesus came to save 2000 years ago! We have the same culture, the same chaos, the same confusion over religion.
Jesus gave His disciples two things to win the world--the gospel message and the power of the Holy Ghost. When we realize that those two things are all we need and begin to employ them where they were meant to be used, we will see true Spiritual revival.
Well said Casey! The fact is that what Jesus has called us to is simple. I think that the temptation of the western Church has been to exahlt reason so far above faith that faith becomes a matter of to much complication. We have become more about words rather than actions--of this even I am guilty.
Thanks for visiting my blog brother. Great thoughts.
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