When Christians abandon their awareness of the present-day actions of Jesus they focus on pastors and programs. It’s time to point people directly to the person of the risen Jesus, not to sermons or shows about Him!

“The whole story” of what God is doing today involves much that is supernatural.” The Asbury Awakening brought much of God’s supernatural working into the light!

When people criticize people for obeying God’s Spirit instead of sticking with religious tradition, they usually don’t know “the whole story” and lack the spiritual gift of the discernment of spirits. That’s why Peter, when criticized, humbly explained that it wasn’t his idea to preach to the Gentiles. He presented the details of how he was led by a vision and a voice from the Lord and how the Lord had to repeat the vision and the words three times before He obeyed. When Christ’s ekklesia in Jerusalem (the proper name of the ancient Greek interactive town hall meeting that Jesus said He would build) heard “the whole story” of how Peter had been led by the Spirit (see Romans 8:14) they dropped their criticism and submitted to what God had done to miraculously bring Gentiles into His kingdom. We need to humbly open our heart to God’s supernatural gift of discernment so that we can tell the difference between people acting from a critical spirit and people being led by the Spirit.