Well, much harder to do at work on my mobile phone so I may go in more detail when I get home and have an actual keyboard. But to sum it up, the Pentecostal church in America too badly wants the results of a Spirit movement...tongues, healings, etc...without being willing to pay the PRICE...fasting, prayer, repentance...
I concluded that the reason we did not see the church acting and moving today as it did in the book of Acts was that we were not living as the did in the book of Acts.
But what exactly it was that we were missing eluded me.
Until I heard a sermon recently that I think answered that question.
It was about fulfilling the Great Commission. Then it hit me.
We’re so focused on everything else, especially the glitz and show, that we are no longer GOING and preaching and making disciples.
It’s too much work and too much commitment and investment and in an instant, have it now society, does not feed the appetite we’ve developed for instant gratification.
Maybe if we took the trouble to go out and preach and make disciples, we’d see God move in the way He did in the early church.
Nods.
It is odd, but one finds great Holiness in the writings of some of the Catholic Saints and mystics.