Comments on: Hunger and Thirst http://www.revivaljournal.com/2007/09/24/hunger-and-thirst/ Wed, 20 Aug 2008 16:05:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: David Copeland http://www.revivaljournal.com/2007/09/24/hunger-and-thirst/#comment-1752 David Copeland Wed, 26 Sep 2007 22:54:11 +0000 http://www.revivaljournal.com/2007/09/24/hunger-and-thirst/#comment-1752 I forgot I HAVE been to those churches......well, I'm wanting to forget:) I forgot I HAVE been to those churches……well, I’m wanting to forget:)

]]> By: Pastor Jack http://www.revivaljournal.com/2007/09/24/hunger-and-thirst/#comment-1750 Pastor Jack Wed, 26 Sep 2007 20:44:39 +0000 http://www.revivaljournal.com/2007/09/24/hunger-and-thirst/#comment-1750 David you said" I have to believe the old saying, if we catch on fire people will come and watch us burn!" Now days they won't watch you burn they try to put the fire out. David you said” I have to believe the old saying, if we catch on fire people will come and watch us burn!” Now days they won’t watch you burn they try to put the fire out.

]]> By: David Copeland http://www.revivaljournal.com/2007/09/24/hunger-and-thirst/#comment-1738 David Copeland Tue, 25 Sep 2007 22:22:47 +0000 http://www.revivaljournal.com/2007/09/24/hunger-and-thirst/#comment-1738 And Pastor Jack, drown me too! And Pastor Jack,

drown me too!

]]> By: David Copeland http://www.revivaljournal.com/2007/09/24/hunger-and-thirst/#comment-1737 David Copeland Tue, 25 Sep 2007 22:21:42 +0000 http://www.revivaljournal.com/2007/09/24/hunger-and-thirst/#comment-1737 Slw, I think it's a combination of all you mentioned. I wish it wouldn't take a calamity to wake some folks up...but it will! At the same time, I realize there are times I have needed something major to happen to wake me up! I am at the place in my life (and I tell God this every day) I don't won't a disaster to have to happen to get me to the place where His Glory can shine through me! I have to believe the old saying, if we catch on fire people will come and watch us burn! But I also heard the pastoral care and frustration (to a degree) you have that wants everyone in your congregation to want all God has for them! And yes Shane, you don't even have to ask permission...I don't have anything to sell!!!!! Slw,
I think it’s a combination of all you mentioned. I wish it wouldn’t take a calamity to wake some folks up…but it will! At the same time, I realize there are times I have needed something major to happen to wake me up! I am at the place in my life (and I tell God this every day) I don’t won’t a disaster to have to happen to get me to the place where His Glory can shine through me! I have to believe the old saying, if we catch on fire people will come and watch us burn!

But I also heard the pastoral care and frustration (to a degree) you have that wants everyone in your congregation to want all God has for them!

And yes Shane, you don’t even have to ask permission…I don’t have anything to sell!!!!!

]]> By: slw http://www.revivaljournal.com/2007/09/24/hunger-and-thirst/#comment-1733 slw Tue, 25 Sep 2007 17:16:54 +0000 http://www.revivaljournal.com/2007/09/24/hunger-and-thirst/#comment-1733 I think you’ve found the pulse point with this one, David. My question is: “How do people become hungry and thirsty?” Is it a sovereign work of grace, do they need to be driven into the wilderness, do they have to hit bottom before they’ll look up, do we need camel knees like James? I’m sure most pastors would love to shepherd the First Assembly of the Parched and Ravenous, if they just knew the sure-fire means of developing spiritual hunger and thirst. It seems to me, there’s a Doolittlean quandary at work here, you can’t push them nor can you pull them. I think you’ve found the pulse point with this one, David. My question is: “How do people become hungry and thirsty?” Is it a sovereign work of grace, do they need to be driven into the wilderness, do they have to hit bottom before they’ll look up, do we need camel knees like James? I’m sure most pastors would love to shepherd the First Assembly of the Parched and Ravenous, if they just knew the sure-fire means of developing spiritual hunger and thirst. It seems to me, there’s a Doolittlean quandary at work here, you can’t push them nor can you pull them.

]]> By: Shane Smith http://www.revivaljournal.com/2007/09/24/hunger-and-thirst/#comment-1732 Shane Smith Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:12:10 +0000 http://www.revivaljournal.com/2007/09/24/hunger-and-thirst/#comment-1732 Hey Bro.... Great Post.. With your permission, I would love to copy and paste this in our weekly bulletin for this Sunday... thks, ss Hey Bro…. Great Post..
With your permission, I would love to copy and paste this in our weekly bulletin for this Sunday…
thks,
ss

]]> By: Pastor Jack` http://www.revivaljournal.com/2007/09/24/hunger-and-thirst/#comment-1730 Pastor Jack` Tue, 25 Sep 2007 15:02:44 +0000 http://www.revivaljournal.com/2007/09/24/hunger-and-thirst/#comment-1730 You are so right! I see people in our own congregation that is so hungry for more of the Holy Spirit and power. Yet there are those who are clueless to the atmosphere around them. It has amazed me at how transition can affect a congregation. Some it will cause a drawing to toward the Spirit and some it will cause an evasivness of others. My heart cry is drown me O'Lord in your Holy Spirit. You are so right! I see people in our own congregation that is so hungry for more of the Holy Spirit and power. Yet there are those who are clueless to the atmosphere around them. It has amazed me at how transition can affect a congregation. Some it will cause a drawing to toward the Spirit and some it will cause an evasivness of others. My heart cry is drown me O’Lord in your Holy Spirit.

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