Welcome to the Jesus Image Podcast.

All right. All right, let's pray.

Wonderful Lord, thank you for your goodness and your kindness

we ask you to come in power now and speak to us and run us through

run us through

in Jesus precious and holy and glorious name

amen precious and holy and glorious name. Amen. Say this out loud, there is more.

We're going to say it three times. Say it again. There's more. Say that again. Say that again.

The only way to keep what God is given you is to go after more over the last few weeks i've been talking about positioning ourselves individually and

as a church family for the outpouring of the

spirit there is such thing as an individual touch from the Holy Spirit that can change your

life literally forever forever when I think that and I contemplate certain moments in God and see and I'm blown away

by what God is done as a result of certain moments in God by the grace of the Holy Spirit,

I'm baffled. I'm baffled.

I'm baffled.

And I believe that there are too many people who feel qualified to lead and preach who are void of an encounter with the Holy Spirit.

I enjoy theology. In fact, I'm often approached by our students and other leaders about just theological perspectives. And I do love talking about that,

but my view of theology is not super Western.

What I mean, I'm not interested in having a mere intellectual conversation that doesn't lead me

into the experience of the one we're talking about.

True biblical theology is meant to lead us into an experience with the God we are

pondering. That has always been God's desire. In the early days of the church, the great

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