So, I recently took a job at my church. I've felt God calling me back there for a while but never wanted to go back. I saw it as a very spiritually dead place.
But being back there I realize that's not true. It's just sleeping, waiting for the moment when God says, "ENOUGH! You are MY CHURCH! MY BRIDE! AWAKEN! BE ALIVE!" and the Holy Spirit is gonna come in all His glory, to a few, then to more, until when the Gospel is preached and the Word is spoken and people will be shaken. This may be foreboding ill, but the Word divides joints and marrow... I wouldn't doubt if that happens here.
Anyway, I was bumming because I felt like the only person there who really believes in the Holy Spirit... I mean, REALLY believes in Him. Knows and interacts with Him on a daily basis, relies on Him for inspiration and strength. I know it was the devil getting me down, but I really did feel that way. Then I started talking with one of my co-workers. He is the same way I am and attended the Holy Spirit Conference and such. I found out that there are 4 other people in our church that are the same way. I started finding out that many pastors in the LCMS are realizing that the Holy Spirit is alive and active and blesses us from generation to generation to carry out the great commission as found in the Gospel of Mark. Some are being thrown out of the church while other churches are becoming Spirit-filled and spreading the Gospel without bounds.
There's two ways you can respond to the Gospel. Revival or riot. You either change or shoot the guy who was saying it. There is NO ROOM for complacency, not when a war is being waged for your soul. And now we're starting to see it in the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod. The question is... are we gonna ignore the prompting of the Holy Spirit? Or follow His guide?
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