Sunday I was in San Antonio. Monday I was back in Houston. And my wife said to me in an elders meeting Monday evening, ” I can tell you’ve been with Rick“. She’s said that a lot in the last 19 years. And almost all the time, it’s right after Rick (as in Godwin) and I have been together. You’ll find a similiar statement in the Book Of Acts. Acts 4:13.
How many of us are really disciples of Jesus? Or have we become denominational look-alikes? Isn’t it amazing that a person can look at someone and say “We realized that they were unschooled, ordinary men, they were astonished and they took note that these men had been with Jesus“.
Can others tell when you have been in the presence of the Holy Spirit, around someone else they know, to the degree that you embrace their spirit- His Spirit?
You aren’t a disciple because you attend church regularly.
No course or set of teachings will make you a disciple of anyone. And it begins here in the natural: with a man or a woman with real flesh and blood. We’ve sold the GOOD NEWS, the gospel, short. As Juan Carlos Ortiz said, “In recent centuries we have been hearing another gospel- a man-centered human gospel. It is the gospel of the big offer. The gospel of the hot sale. the gospel of the irresistible sale“.
And it has no power. The emperor Christian has no clothes.
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