HISTORY IS UNFOLDING - Bill Atwood
HISTORY IS UNFOLDING
by Bishop Bill Atwood
Guest Blogger
Treading Grain
http://treadinggrain.com/2011/guest-blogger-bishop-bill-atwood/
July 27, 2011
Howard Ball, an evangelism trainer for Campus Crusade for Christ in the 1970′s, used to say, "Sometimes people remark that living a faithful Christian life is difficult. That's not true at all. It's not difficult– it's humanly impossible."
Happily, we are not consigned to live our Christian lives in our own strength. Certainly, there are plenty of people who try. That's better than not even trying to conform to the principles of the Kingdom, but it is frustrating and exhausting to try to live religiously without the power of the Holy Spirit. To be sure, even when we are open to Him working in us and through us supernaturally, we are not always aware of how He is doing it. Our intellect alone is not sufficient to perceive the genuine leading of the Spirit. Surely our five senses are inadequate for that discernment. Taste, touch, smell, hearing, and sight are insufficient to discern when God is doing something and when He is not.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
by Bishop Bill Atwood
Guest Blogger
Treading Grain
http://treadinggrain.com/2011/guest-blogger-bishop-bill-atwood/
July 27, 2011
Howard Ball, an evangelism trainer for Campus Crusade for Christ in the 1970′s, used to say, "Sometimes people remark that living a faithful Christian life is difficult. That's not true at all. It's not difficult– it's humanly impossible."Happily, we are not consigned to live our Christian lives in our own strength. Certainly, there are plenty of people who try. That's better than not even trying to conform to the principles of the Kingdom, but it is frustrating and exhausting to try to live religiously without the power of the Holy Spirit. To be sure, even when we are open to Him working in us and through us supernaturally, we are not always aware of how He is doing it. Our intellect alone is not sufficient to perceive the genuine leading of the Spirit. Surely our five senses are inadequate for that discernment. Taste, touch, smell, hearing, and sight are insufficient to discern when God is doing something and when He is not.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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