So this isn't really a blog post as much as something interesting that I just read. When people would ask John Wimber if he would spend hours in fasting and prayer before he taught or prayed for people, he would answer that he "drank a Diet Coke." He was arguing that he was no more spiritual than anyone else, that we all have the Holy Spirit working in us, and thus God didn't use him because he was so spiritual but because of who Jesus is and what he has called Christians to be and to do as He gives His Spirit to them.
I love that. So accessible. God has not created a caste system in the Christian faith in which there are those who are the spiritually "elite", the "middle class" of those who are pretty good and can make some difference in the world, and the poor, or those who are just on the margins of the faith. No caste system. Equally ground before the cross. Same God working in all of us. That is encouraging.
(Information from The Quest for the Radical Middle by Bill Jackson)
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