Our friends the "wee Scottish Prophet" Joe Ewen, and his lovely bride Yvonne are here from Scotland. They flew straight across the pond, landed in Atlanta, rented a black Dodge, and drove until 2 A.M. to get here, yesterday morning.
Joe will mess with your idea of a prophet. He is a people-person, down to earth, pleasant, and delivers a spot-on word from the Lord, if the Lord gives him a word for you. He has always "just so happened" to be scheduled to speak at Harvest at pivotal points in our history as a church. Moreover, when he hasn't been with us, he has called us on the phone, from across the pond, on a couple of random occasions this past year or two, because the Lord spoke to him a word concerning us.
If you miss getting to be with us in the morning, to receive from the Jesus who Joe incarnates, don't hate on me for saying it: you really will have missed a blessing.
Today is his bride's birthday, so we felt a celebration was in order...
There is no other way to be truly blessed, than to be part of a local church.
And I do mean a part...not scaffolding, helping to build only up to a point, and then disappearing...I mean a load bearing wall. Integral. Part.
If you think you are blessed, and you are not an integral part of a local church, that is because you have only known a measure of blessing, and you think that what you know, is all there is to know.
There is so much more in store for you, if you'd but let go of the bitterness and pride, and become part of something that actually requires you to stick it out, love past your limits, past your pain, beyond the imperfections you find in local church leaders.
If you could...oh, if you only could become part...you'd understand the privilege of knowing people like this:
2 comments:
I concur! You're not living the life until you're woven into other people's lives. "Mourn with those who mourn, rejoice with those who rejoice." That ain't gonna happen unless you're truly involved in someone else's life in a real way.
Plus, gotta say I love Joe and Yvonne. Haven't seen them in a year, and they have kept up with what's going on in my life. It's refreshing, and amazing, to have people who care about you that way. Really makes a person feel valued... humbled... [some other word, because there always has to be three]...
Precious! ....Love being apart of the Body of Christ at Harvest!
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