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- You’ve said that the impartation was really part of every principle in The Master Plan of Evangelism. What do you mean by that?
You’ve said that the impartation was really part of every principle in The Master Plan of Evangelism. What do you mean by that?
The Holy Spirit is ultimately the one who catalyzed the incarnation, reversing the value system so that we don’t live like pagans. It’s the Spirit of God who makes the selection. He is the one that calls them. We simply respond to what the Spirit of God is doing. Doesn’t that take the burden off your shoulders? He’s the initiator. We just recognize what God is doing. It’s the Spirit who creates the fellowship, that association of believers who comes to be called the Church. That’s true whether there’s a whole congregation or just you and one other person. Jesus is there with you. The Spirit is the power behind all nine principles.
Because sometimes we have to show others how we really are, a lot of repentance is going on in this Christian walk. Yes, we can fall. But even our repentance and confession of our failure and sin is a demonstration to others that we will continue to live as broken people. It’s the Spirit who in His own way will show how this life will be reproduced in those who are close to us. It’s the principle of being born into the world. You come into the world as a baby, and that is a miraculous work of God. But that principle of rebirth is seen now as the Spirit makes us new. A new dimension is added as the Spirit begins to transform, lead and fashion us into His own image—an image He wanted for us in the beginning, but that we’ve never fully realized because we didn’t develop according to His initial plan (Robert Coleman)