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In The Presence Centered Church, our good friend Bill Elliff quotes his mentor Manley Beasley as saying, “The mark of a godly man and the mark of a godly church is that everything they do is God-initiated.” Bill states, “Everything flows from the presence of the Lord. Everything.” More importantly in John 5:30, Jesus said, “I can do nothing on my own initiative.” Paul instructs us in I Thess. 5:17 to “Pray without ceasing” and in Eph. 6:18 he exhorts us to offer “all prayer” at “all times” ...
I confessed in my last article that, for most of my Christian life and most of my time in ministry, I had selected my end times views like I would a piece of pizza on a buffet — I went with what sounded best. I doubt I’m alone, and it’s something we can’t do for our end-time view isn’t just a fringe part of our Bible knowledge rather through it we filter many other Scriptures and our...