https://pneumareview.com/believe-in-miracles-but-follow-jesus/ Journal of Ministry Resources and Theology for Pentecostal and Charismatic Ministries & Leaders Wed, 06 Jun 2018 18:30:06 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 https://pneumareview.com/believe-in-miracles-but-follow-jesus/#comment-35935 Sat, 23 Apr 2016 10:45:56 +0000 http://pneumareview.com/?p=11065#comment-35935 I am sad that the works that introduced the Kingdom of God to people as they came near to Jesus have become abstract terms – ‘signs and wonders.’ In John Jesus called them his works and they were so closely identified with Jesus that he says ‘at least believe on the evidence of the miracles themselves.’ For ‘it is the Father, living in me, who is doing his work.’
Our minds can follow an abstract Jesus presented to us verbally – through words. Our hearts are not convinced by words but they are by experience and experiences. But we have not given this credence – that heart faith requires experience. Jesus had no problem with faith based on evidence as seen in John 14 and Luke 24:36 ff.
In ministry that follows the Jesus model, gospel message always follows hearings and deliverance ministry. The gospel message was always linked to these signs of the Kingdom, at least implicitly. How did we let them get so detached?

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