RECHARGE 9-9-09

During the first week of October, Karen and I will again be spending a week with our friends Justin and Shirley Stirrett in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. We will be teaching a weeklong course at their YWAM Discipleship Training School. This year, the Stirretts have specifically asked us to teach on spiritual gifts – including motivational gifts, the five-fold offices, and the gifts of the Holy Spirit.

That means I will be covering what amounts to seven or eight months worth of teaching in four days! Our prayer is that we will have the opportunity to introduce many of these DTS students to the Holy Spirit, and to the life and power that comes with His ministry in our lives. I need your help.

For the next few weeks, I want to use our time together on Wednesday nights to talk about the ministry of the Holy Spirit in today’s church. I want to dig into some of the Scriptures on this topic, but I also want to hear about your own experiences with the Holy Spirit Himself, and your experiences with the gifts of the Holy Spirit. I would like to know what questions you yourself might have about this whole topic, and what questions you find that other believers that you interact with have.

What do you think are some of the most common misunderstandings about the Holy Spirit and His ministry? We can go as far as you want to with this study. If you have questions or thoughts about the way the various gifts work together in the body, we can discuss that too.

Please come to Wednesday Night recharge ready to share some of your thoughts on this topic. As always, we will let the Scripture, not just our own opinions or experiences be the final word. Hopefully we can all be refreshed and grow a bit in our own understanding.

If you have questions that you would like to have discussed, please email them to me at pastor@rmcmchurch.org. We will be meeting this week at 7 pm at the Riverway Picnic Area off McCabes lane west of Gunnison. See the map in the right hand column of this blog for directions.