Tope Tweets From Africa
Tope's Twitter and facebook pages have been humming as he sat in an airport lounge reflecting on his time in Zimbabwe:
Back in tweet world. Zimbabwe Internet Quite bad. Missed tweet world. And now for some report on my Zim trip. The Zim conference was a success I believe. I am grateful and humbled. I preached 8 sermons in 3 days to A.O.G leaders.
I preached Jesus again and again and again until they could see that - it's all about Jesus. It always was. It always will be. I challenged them to stop playing games with Gods Word when preaching. If it's not about Jesus, it's your gospel not His and it won't save
For me, I come back home thinking how much we have. Books, mp3's, gifted thinkers. To whom much is given much is expected. We have much.
I also think about what we are missing in the west. True Holy Spirit filled Worship and presence of God that leaves you joyful and fearful. Whatever happened to AWE? Act 2:43 "And awe came upon every soul, and many wonders and signs were being done through the apostles."
Awe is not emotionalism. It is not mere exuberance. It is sensing the presence of the only one to whom the word "ASEITY" truely belongs. AWE makes you say depart from me a SINNER (Lk 5:8) - But when he says- FORGIVEN, GRACE makes you say- My Lord and my God.
Well, that's enough for now. At least I used 30 mins of my 5 hour wait in Joburg airport.
Posted on Monday, August 24, 2009
Back in tweet world. Zimbabwe Internet Quite bad. Missed tweet world. And now for some report on my Zim trip. The Zim conference was a success I believe. I am grateful and humbled. I preached 8 sermons in 3 days to A.O.G leaders.
I preached Jesus again and again and again until they could see that - it's all about Jesus. It always was. It always will be. I challenged them to stop playing games with Gods Word when preaching. If it's not about Jesus, it's your gospel not His and it won't save
For me, I come back home thinking how much we have. Books, mp3's, gifted thinkers. To whom much is given much is expected. We have much.
I also think about what we are missing in the west. True Holy Spirit filled Worship and presence of God that leaves you joyful and fearful. Whatever happened to AWE? Act 2:43 "And awe came upon every soul, and many wonders and signs were being done through the apostles."
Awe is not emotionalism. It is not mere exuberance. It is sensing the presence of the only one to whom the word "ASEITY" truely belongs. AWE makes you say depart from me a SINNER (Lk 5:8) - But when he says- FORGIVEN, GRACE makes you say- My Lord and my God.
Well, that's enough for now. At least I used 30 mins of my 5 hour wait in Joburg airport.
Posted on Monday, August 24, 2009