I've officially been accepted as an Ambassador of Holiness for 2009.
For those who don't follow Army jargon, that means I've been accepted for training as an Officer (minister) within the Salvation Army.
Thanks for everyone who has supported and prayed for me over this journey. Please continue to pray for the session of Ambassadors, it will be so rewarding, but very challenging at the same time!!
Then he said to them all: "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.
Luke 9:23
10 comments:
Congratulations!
Congrats mate. There was never any doubt.
Grace,
Andrew
Be assured of our continued prayers!
hallelujah!
Congratulations Simon, that is fantastic...you will continue to be in our prayers...
Catherine
That is great news Simon ! We are continually praying for you and look forward to catching up next time we are in Melbourne.
I couldnt think of a more appropriate sessional name for you than an "Ambassador of Holiness" !
Blessings,
Darren
[This belongs on another thread, but anyway]
Read this article "The Rise and Fall of Todd Bentley"
in http://debunkingchristianity.blogspot.com/2008/08/rise-and-fall-of-todd-bentley.html
Read it not so much as a means of disparaging your own belief, Simon, in faith healing but as a means of refelection. Think about how Catch the Fire is similar in some ways to what Todd Bentley was doing (the scale and audience is different).
Think about what you are really believing in.
It brings to mind a comment given to me from a senior salvo source that went something like "why don't these faith healers perform their works in a local hospital".
And think about the following quote from the above article:
"Christianity is a subjective discipline, and one Christian cannot appeal to objective analysis of another without undermining their own claims to faith and knowledge of God."
I'm wondering that as you give this matter some deeper thinking, do you begin see it in a different light?
Hi David,
You talk as if I've never thought about what I believe in.
Don't bother trying to convince me there is no God - you can't give me more evidence that God doesn't exist compared to the amount of proof that God has given me that He does exist. Go for a walk through a forrest close to your place and just listen... don't say anything more until you've done it (sounds stupid, but just do it - a special message just to you!!)
Sure there are many 'Christians' out there that are actually human and fall short of God's expectations for us, but you know - God understands, He has walked in our shoes and that's why He is so willing to forgive us - He undestands!
Also, who says faith healers don't perform their works in local hospitals?
And how is a walk in a forest going to enable me to believe that "a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree" ?
Can't really see the connection.
David, you're bitter, man. You need healing.
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