April 21, 2025 • 29 mins
The spiritual language barrier is real. While many of us are witnessing an unprecedented global movement of God's presence, our specialized vocabulary often leaves newcomers confused and isolated. This isn't about waiting for revival—we're already experiencing the early stages of perhaps the most significant demonstration of God's presence since Christ walked among us.
Through candid conversation and a healthy dose of self-awareness, we explore how "Christianese" terms like "hedge of protection," "washed in the blood," and even seemingly innocuous phrases like "I've been praying for you" can sound utterly foreign to those outside our faith circles. Rather than creating barriers with our language, we're called to build bridges that allow everyone to participate in what God is doing across nations and communities worldwide.
This episode marks four years of podcast ministry that has grown from a small vision in Jacksonville, Florida to reaching thousands across more than 70 countries. With this expanding influence comes responsibility—to communicate clearly, inclusively, and without the defensive posture that often characterizes religious discourse. By examining our speech patterns with humor rather than shame, we can become more effective in sharing authentic relationship with God during these desperate times. Join us in learning how to translate our deepest spiritual truths into language that invites rather than excludes, all while participating in this remarkable global awakening.
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Speaker 1 (00:03):
in lieu of the fact that we are currently involved
across the nations in a time inwhich a demonstration of God's
presence is upon us.
It's not coming.
It's not coming.
(00:23):
We are in the early stages ofwhat is going to be known as the
greatest expression of God onplanet Earth.
Aside from the appearing ofJesus Christ, god is into
(00:49):
relationship.
He's not interested inestablishing a new religion.
We have several big ones, andthey really haven't foot the
bill.
They haven't paid for what itrequires a person to have a real
relationship with God and alsoto put an end to some of the
(01:15):
madness that has been going onwithin our personal lives, the
death spin that we've beeninvolved in that we can't seem
to pull out of.
In fact, we can't pull out ofon our own, and, fortunately,
(01:36):
many of us have received andresponded to the help that God
has been offering to us insubtle ways over the course of
the past several years.
However, desperate times callfor desperate measures, and we
(01:57):
are living in some verydesperate times, and God is not
surprised by them at all, giventhe fact that God is God, but he
also he's moved by them, hisheart's moved.
God understands that this isnot an easy place to live.
(02:26):
Planet Earth, by and large, isnot an easy place to experience
life in.
It's a challenge, and in thatchallenge there could be things
that overwhelm us, and as aresult of being overwhelmed, we
(02:47):
grasp for straws anything that'sgoing to perhaps help, and one
of those straws could bereligion.
Buddhism, islam, taoism,christianity all of these are
(03:10):
religions.
They don't really have anythingto do with relationship per se.
It's an attempt by man tosomehow work their way into a
relationship with God, andChristianity was never designed
(03:32):
to be a religion.
It's become one, and a dead oneat that.
But the true essence ofrelationship with Christ Jesus,
the living Lord.
Now that's a completelydifferent picture, and that is
(03:55):
what we've been focusing in onfor the course of the past four
years.
Pretty hard to believe that thispodcast has been going on now
for four years.
It started as a vision in ahome in the Jacksonville Beach
(04:16):
area of Jacksonville, florida,and has emerged into an
international outreach covering70 plus nations, over a thousand
cities, all the continents,basically off of a bedroom,
(04:40):
which goes to show that even adrop in the ocean of
communication, when God's in it,can do amazing things.
And so for us to think that weare literally touching now
thousands of people and thereare hundreds of people right now
listening to the informationthat's coming through us to you
(05:12):
is not only astounding, it'shumbling, man.
It's humbling to be part of.
I'm thankful.
(05:40):
And yet one of the things thatperiodically we need to do we
all need to do, actually is takea step back and give a little
review as to what's going on inour lives.
And in part of that reviewprocess, it's important to take
a good, healthy look atourselves and in taking a good
of humor along with it, becausesome of the things that we have
(06:14):
done along the way have been notnecessarily the most enjoyable
to look at and to consider howother people see us, not so much
how we've seen ourselves, buthow we appear, how we come
(06:34):
across other people.
And the reason I'm saying thatis because we want to build
bridges, not build walls.
We don't want to have a hallwayfull of walls but you have to
kind of go through in a fashionlike a maze.
(06:57):
But we want to build bridges ofcommunication.
But sometimes our communicationand the words that we use can
become barriers.
It can be like walking througha maze and sometimes spiritual
communication, stuff that wetalk about, things that we take
(07:20):
for granted in our normaleveryday conversation.
For someone who's on the outsideof our particular group of
people listening to us, they canoften be left in the dark, not
because we want them to be orthat they want to be.
(07:41):
It's because they don'tunderstand what's going on or
what's coming out of our mouth.
And if we are defensive when welook at ourselves, if I'm
defensive when I look at myself,it makes it hard to have a real
(08:01):
, open, honest evaluationconcerning how I've been coming
across.
But if I have a sense of humor,if I can laugh, if I can laugh
at the fact that I've been atthis long enough to, you know,
lose a little bit of hair overor the color of my hair has
(08:24):
changed, that's good man,because the way that we go about
saying things and the way thatother people hear them,
(08:45):
sometimes they don't match.
And again, if I get defensive,man, all that time spent losing
that hair, it's kind of a wasteof time.
But when I can look at certainthings with a sense of humor and
(09:14):
say, you know, there's probablyroom for improvement, and I can
laugh at myself a little bit,we can laugh at ourselves a
little bit, man, because of thedesperate times that we're
living in.
(09:35):
It kind of eases the burden.
We don't need one more burden.
I don't want to put one moreburden on you in listening to
this podcast, in you hearing now, oh, now, what I got to do is I
got to work on my communication.
I have to do this in order tobe pleading to God.
No, no, no, we've beenhopefully removing some of that
(10:04):
yoke, that teaching, that way ofthinking from you, where we are
a performance-oriented group ofpeople in which our
relationships with God are basedupon how well we behave.
(10:29):
Yes, what we do with our livesmatters, but, at the same point
in time, it's God who is at workwithin us, perfecting us, not
us perfecting each other orourselves or ourselves.
And so, yeah, I've been lookingat the fact that we have a
(10:50):
variety of people from a varietyof walks in life listening
right now, and some of you youhave been at this for a long
time and, again, some of you arebrand new, and there's some
(11:14):
things that I'd like to bringout and highlight concerning the
way we say things, and when Isay we, I'm primarily talking
about those of us who've beenaround for a while, those of us
who have entered intorelationship with a real
(11:35):
relationship with Jesus, andhave had things take place in
our lives that have altered theway that we go about doing
things, which is beautiful,that's absolutely part of us.
Maturing is setting aside oldways and embracing new ways.
(12:01):
But sometimes, when we embracenew ways, we can leave other
people who aren't necessarilymoving at the same pace we are.
We can leave them in the dustand in the dark.
And that's not God's heart ashe looks to develop within us
(12:29):
his character and his nature.
And, as I said earlier, god'snot surprised by the condition
of things, but he is moved bythem.
And he's also moved by us inour at times difficult situation
concerning relationship witheach other.
(12:52):
That we just don't understandeach other or our communication
is strained.
And sometimes our communicationis strained because we get
familiar with talking a certainway, familiar with talking a
certain way, and other peopleare not familiar with that way
and they don't understand thatway and they feel left out and
(13:12):
they feel like, well, maybe I'mjust not part of it or maybe I
can never get there, maybe I cannever be like that person.
I'm way over here and they'reway over there.
How can I ever be like them?
I don't even know what they'retalking about.
I want to Looks like they knowwhat they're talking about.
I want to looks like they knowwhat they're doing.
But, man, when they talk, Idon't know.
I just don't understand whatthey're saying.
(13:34):
It's like they're talking adifferent language.
It's like something they'retalking is might as well be
Chinese.
Well, we've might as well beChinese.
Well, we've termed thingsdifferently and it's not a
(13:57):
Chinese or a Japanese.
It's not a ease at all of othercultures.
It's Christianese.
We have kind of developed, manyof us, a way of talking that is
(14:22):
a way that we understand exactlywhat we mean by what we're
saying, a way that we understandexactly what we mean by what
we're saying, but other peoplelistening they don't really get
it.
And because we want people togrow together in relationship
that's part of the purpose forthis podcast is relationship
(14:42):
with God, growing more intimatein relationship with God,
growing more intimate inrelationship with him and in
real relationship, healthyrelationship with one another
and communication is part ofthat.
And a massive demonstration ofhis presence.
God's presence around the worldis going to bring in people
(15:08):
from all different walks of life, and we need to be able to
communicate with one another Ifwe're going to be able to
accomplish some of the thingsthat are set out before us.
And so there are a few thingsthat I want to highlight
(15:29):
concerning Christianese, thingsthat we are comfortable talking
about, but other people don'tnecessarily understand what we
mean, and I'm going to start outfirst one right now quiet time,
(15:49):
having quiet time.
What in the world is quiet time?
I mean if I'm on the outside,quiet time kind of sounds like
something that you give to somechild who is needing to stand in
(16:10):
the corner Quiet time.
But in the context of spiritualcommunity, quiet time can mean
describing a period ofreflection and prayer, often
(16:31):
with the Bible, where you haveyour quiet time.
Ah, all right, christianesequiet time.
But for someone else, quiettime sounds like I don't know
what's this quiet time?
Right, been praying for you.
Another one, a commonexpression of support and
(16:54):
concern often used in Christiancontext I've been praying for
you, but to someone who's notbeen involved that long in
Christian community, I've beenpraying for you can sound to
them like something's reallywrong with them and it requires
(17:18):
you to pray for them and they'relike what's wrong?
What do you know that I don'tknow?
Versus, it's just an expressionof compassion and considering,
saying I'm praying for you.
God's got a plan.
I love that one.
(17:39):
God's got a plan.
I know I used to hear that one.
I'm like where do you find that?
Because I haven't found thatone yet.
Did you find that?
Where did you go to get God'splans for your life?
Is there like a store you couldpick that up in?
Do you order it online?
How do I get God's plan?
(18:01):
Like a kitchen cabinet?
Oh, redo your kitchen, all yourcabinetry, and have a nice
floor plan.
You know God's plan?
Well, it's a phrase used tocomfort or reassure someone,
(18:24):
suggesting that God has aspecific purpose for their
situation.
That's kind of cool, man.
God's plan Washed by the blood.
John Wimber, one of my mentors,said when he heard that first
time, the first time he heardthat it was in the back of his
(18:46):
mind.
He goes when do they make youdo that Wash in the blood?
Because that's what it soundedlike.
Has it been washed in the blood?
And he's like when are we goingto have to do that one?
Because this is all new to me.
Where washed in the blood is aterm referring to the cleansing
and forgiveness of sins throughJesus' blood.
(19:08):
Hedge of protection?
Hedge of protection.
What in the world is a hedge ofprotection?
Is that like there's somepeople that are going to come in
your yard overnight and they'regoing to put up a hedge,
(19:29):
they're going to plant somehedges and it's going to be some
protection because somebody'slike like, but like there's a, a
bad guy going to be coming yourway, or a robber or something.
Hedge of protection hedge where?
In christian community, hedgeprotection means a metaphorical
(19:53):
phrase suggesting god'sprotection and security.
Faith, that's, that's, that'sfor anybody.
Faith well, faith, faith is acore Christian concept, often
understood differently bynon-Christians, meaning people
(20:14):
have faith for getting a new car, but placing faith in Jesus for
their salvation are twodifferent things.
Fellowship that's notnecessarily a term that's used
(20:37):
around the shop or around theoffice when you're talking about
having a get-together.
When you're talking abouthaving a get-together, but
fellowship in Christiancommunity often refers to the
close bonds and sharedexperiences.
Within Christian community.
You have fellowship like twofellows in a ship Sanctification
(21:05):
, the process of becoming moreholy and pleasing to God.
Let's go through a couple morehere that I got written down
speaking in tongues.
What in the world is speakingin tongues?
(21:29):
What in the world is speakingin tongues?
How much schooling do you haveto go to to get that one?
To speak in tongues, that meansspeaking other languages.
I have a hard enough timespeaking English, let alone
speaking in other tongues, buthere we're referring to a
(21:53):
spiritual gift involvingspeaking in unknown tongues or
unknown language.
A spiritual gift?
Ah, a spiritual gift, yes, lastbut not least, fruit of the
(22:19):
spirit.
Fruit of the spirit, if youlook at it face value.
Fruit of the spirit indicatesthat we are going to develop
(22:42):
some type of product that ismuch like a tangerine, but
that's not what's being referredto here.
(23:03):
It's a list of qualitiesassociated with living according
to the Holy Spirit, with livingaccording to the Holy Spirit.
Now, the list goes on, and Iknow that you get the point
already, and that is this thatwe all have things that we do
(23:27):
and ways that we do them and howwe say them, that we know what
we mean, but other people don'thave a clue.
And I think it's important forus to review what's coming out
of our mouths and to make someadjustments right, but to do so
(23:51):
without fear, without guilt andwithout shame.
There's no should to this.
This is something that we canlook at and say in light of the
(24:15):
fact that we want to participatein this great demonstration of
God and we want to be able tocommunicate to as many people as
possible.
Let's take a look at how we arecommunicating to ourselves and
(24:38):
to one another concerning thingsthat have developed as a result
of us stepping away from oneway of life, stepping away from
one lifestyle and into a new one.
But sometimes we leave peoplein the dust or in the dark, and
(25:03):
I believe that it's importantfor us to learn how to speak in
a way that includes other peopleor, if nothing else, we can
speak in a way that we canexplain what it is that we mean
by what we're saying.
(25:24):
But when we look at ourselves,in reviewing how we're going
about doing things, let's do itwith a sense of humor, not
beating each other up orourselves, but taking the time
and saying is there a way that Icould improve the way that I
say things, make them moreunderstandable?
(25:47):
Because I believe there is.
That's free Father, thank youthat you love us enough to point
(26:08):
out to us ways that we canimprove, to point out to us ways
that we can improve, and, inrelationship with you, you're
committed to the process ofseeing us grow from glory to
(26:31):
glory, in becoming more and morelike you.
Jesus, holy Spirit, I ask thatyou take the simple words and
that you would broadcast themaround, and that you would help
us, collectively andindividually, adjust the way
(26:56):
that we communicate so that wecan have the doors open even
wider for men, women andchildren to come into the
kingdom and not feel barred outby the way that we go about
saying things or that we'redefensive on how we express
ourselves, but we can becomeflexible.
Help us remember what it waslike to be on the outside, lord,
(27:25):
and now that you have us withinthe community of saints, teach
us to be inclusive.
We ask these things standinghere in the name of Jesus, and
(27:46):
we say amen, amen, amen, amen,amen.
I love you.
Folks say amen, amen, amen,amen, amen.
I love you, folks.
If you have any thoughts,questions, concerns, please feel
free to drop us a line atlifearoundthefire, at gmailcom,
or type in lifearoundthefire andlook us up on the web.
(28:07):
We would love to hear from youIn the meantime.
God bless you.
Adios amigos.
in lieu of the fact that we are currently involved
across the nations in a time inwhich a demonstration of God's
presence is upon us.
It's not coming.
It's not coming.
(00:23):
We are in the early stages ofwhat is going to be known as the
greatest expression of God onplanet Earth.
Aside from the appearing ofJesus Christ, god is into
(00:49):
relationship.
He's not interested inestablishing a new religion.
We have several big ones, andthey really haven't foot the
bill.
They haven't paid for what itrequires a person to have a real
relationship with God and alsoto put an end to some of the
(01:15):
madness that has been going onwithin our personal lives, the
death spin that we've beeninvolved in that we can't seem
to pull out of.
In fact, we can't pull out ofon our own, and, fortunately,
(01:36):
many of us have received andresponded to the help that God
has been offering to us insubtle ways over the course of
the past several years.
However, desperate times callfor desperate measures, and we
(01:57):
are living in some verydesperate times, and God is not
surprised by them at all, giventhe fact that God is God, but he
also he's moved by them, hisheart's moved.
God understands that this isnot an easy place to live.
(02:26):
Planet Earth, by and large, isnot an easy place to experience
life in.
It's a challenge, and in thatchallenge there could be things
that overwhelm us, and as aresult of being overwhelmed, we
(02:47):
grasp for straws anything that'sgoing to perhaps help, and one
of those straws could bereligion.
Buddhism, islam, taoism,christianity all of these are
(03:10):
religions.
They don't really have anythingto do with relationship per se.
It's an attempt by man tosomehow work their way into a
relationship with God, andChristianity was never designed
(03:32):
to be a religion.
It's become one, and a dead oneat that.
But the true essence ofrelationship with Christ Jesus,
the living Lord.
Now that's a completelydifferent picture, and that is
(03:55):
what we've been focusing in onfor the course of the past four
years.
Pretty hard to believe that thispodcast has been going on now
for four years.
It started as a vision in ahome in the Jacksonville Beach
(04:16):
area of Jacksonville, florida,and has emerged into an
international outreach covering70 plus nations, over a thousand
cities, all the continents,basically off of a bedroom,
(04:40):
which goes to show that even adrop in the ocean of
communication, when God's in it,can do amazing things.
And so for us to think that weare literally touching now
thousands of people and thereare hundreds of people right now
listening to the informationthat's coming through us to you
(05:12):
is not only astounding, it'shumbling, man.
It's humbling to be part of.
I'm thankful.
(05:40):
And yet one of the things thatperiodically we need to do we
all need to do, actually is takea step back and give a little
review as to what's going on inour lives.
And in part of that reviewprocess, it's important to take
a good, healthy look atourselves and in taking a good
of humor along with it, becausesome of the things that we have
(06:14):
done along the way have been notnecessarily the most enjoyable
to look at and to consider howother people see us, not so much
how we've seen ourselves, buthow we appear, how we come
(06:34):
across other people.
And the reason I'm saying thatis because we want to build
bridges, not build walls.
We don't want to have a hallwayfull of walls but you have to
kind of go through in a fashionlike a maze.
(06:57):
But we want to build bridges ofcommunication.
But sometimes our communicationand the words that we use can
become barriers.
It can be like walking througha maze and sometimes spiritual
communication, stuff that wetalk about, things that we take
(07:20):
for granted in our normaleveryday conversation.
For someone who's on the outsideof our particular group of
people listening to us, they canoften be left in the dark, not
because we want them to be orthat they want to be.
(07:41):
It's because they don'tunderstand what's going on or
what's coming out of our mouth.
And if we are defensive when welook at ourselves, if I'm
defensive when I look at myself,it makes it hard to have a real
(08:01):
, open, honest evaluationconcerning how I've been coming
across.
But if I have a sense of humor,if I can laugh, if I can laugh
at the fact that I've been atthis long enough to, you know,
lose a little bit of hair overor the color of my hair has
(08:24):
changed, that's good man,because the way that we go about
saying things and the way thatother people hear them,
(08:45):
sometimes they don't match.
And again, if I get defensive,man, all that time spent losing
that hair, it's kind of a wasteof time.
But when I can look at certainthings with a sense of humor and
(09:14):
say, you know, there's probablyroom for improvement, and I can
laugh at myself a little bit,we can laugh at ourselves a
little bit, man, because of thedesperate times that we're
living in.
(09:35):
It kind of eases the burden.
We don't need one more burden.
I don't want to put one moreburden on you in listening to
this podcast, in you hearing now, oh, now, what I got to do is I
got to work on my communication.
I have to do this in order tobe pleading to God.
No, no, no, we've beenhopefully removing some of that
(10:04):
yoke, that teaching, that way ofthinking from you, where we are
a performance-oriented group ofpeople in which our
relationships with God are basedupon how well we behave.
(10:29):
Yes, what we do with our livesmatters, but, at the same point
in time, it's God who is at workwithin us, perfecting us, not
us perfecting each other orourselves or ourselves.
And so, yeah, I've been lookingat the fact that we have a
(10:50):
variety of people from a varietyof walks in life listening
right now, and some of you youhave been at this for a long
time and, again, some of you arebrand new, and there's some
(11:14):
things that I'd like to bringout and highlight concerning the
way we say things, and when Isay we, I'm primarily talking
about those of us who've beenaround for a while, those of us
who have entered intorelationship with a real
(11:35):
relationship with Jesus, andhave had things take place in
our lives that have altered theway that we go about doing
things, which is beautiful,that's absolutely part of us.
Maturing is setting aside oldways and embracing new ways.
(12:01):
But sometimes, when we embracenew ways, we can leave other
people who aren't necessarilymoving at the same pace we are.
We can leave them in the dustand in the dark.
And that's not God's heart ashe looks to develop within us
(12:29):
his character and his nature.
And, as I said earlier, god'snot surprised by the condition
of things, but he is moved bythem.
And he's also moved by us inour at times difficult situation
concerning relationship witheach other.
(12:52):
That we just don't understandeach other or our communication
is strained.
And sometimes our communicationis strained because we get
familiar with talking a certainway, familiar with talking a
certain way, and other peopleare not familiar with that way
and they don't understand thatway and they feel left out and
(13:12):
they feel like, well, maybe I'mjust not part of it or maybe I
can never get there, maybe I cannever be like that person.
I'm way over here and they'reway over there.
How can I ever be like them?
I don't even know what they'retalking about.
I want to Looks like they knowwhat they're talking about.
I want to looks like they knowwhat they're doing.
But, man, when they talk, Idon't know.
I just don't understand whatthey're saying.
(13:34):
It's like they're talking adifferent language.
It's like something they'retalking is might as well be
Chinese.
Well, we've might as well beChinese.
Well, we've termed thingsdifferently and it's not a
(13:57):
Chinese or a Japanese.
It's not a ease at all of othercultures.
It's Christianese.
We have kind of developed, manyof us, a way of talking that is
(14:22):
a way that we understand exactlywhat we mean by what we're
saying, a way that we understandexactly what we mean by what
we're saying, but other peoplelistening they don't really get
it.
And because we want people togrow together in relationship
that's part of the purpose forthis podcast is relationship
(14:42):
with God, growing more intimatein relationship with God,
growing more intimate inrelationship with him and in
real relationship, healthyrelationship with one another
and communication is part ofthat.
And a massive demonstration ofhis presence.
God's presence around the worldis going to bring in people
(15:08):
from all different walks of life, and we need to be able to
communicate with one another Ifwe're going to be able to
accomplish some of the thingsthat are set out before us.
And so there are a few thingsthat I want to highlight
(15:29):
concerning Christianese, thingsthat we are comfortable talking
about, but other people don'tnecessarily understand what we
mean, and I'm going to start outfirst one right now quiet time,
(15:49):
having quiet time.
What in the world is quiet time?
I mean if I'm on the outside,quiet time kind of sounds like
something that you give to somechild who is needing to stand in
(16:10):
the corner Quiet time.
But in the context of spiritualcommunity, quiet time can mean
describing a period ofreflection and prayer, often
(16:31):
with the Bible, where you haveyour quiet time.
Ah, all right, christianesequiet time.
But for someone else, quiettime sounds like I don't know
what's this quiet time?
Right, been praying for you.
Another one, a commonexpression of support and
(16:54):
concern often used in Christiancontext I've been praying for
you, but to someone who's notbeen involved that long in
Christian community, I've beenpraying for you can sound to
them like something's reallywrong with them and it requires
(17:18):
you to pray for them and they'relike what's wrong?
What do you know that I don'tknow?
Versus, it's just an expressionof compassion and considering,
saying I'm praying for you.
God's got a plan.
I love that one.
(17:39):
God's got a plan.
I know I used to hear that one.
I'm like where do you find that?
Because I haven't found thatone yet.
Did you find that?
Where did you go to get God'splans for your life?
Is there like a store you couldpick that up in?
Do you order it online?
How do I get God's plan?
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Like a kitchen cabinet?
Oh, redo your kitchen, all yourcabinetry, and have a nice
floor plan.
You know God's plan?
Well, it's a phrase used tocomfort or reassure someone,
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suggesting that God has aspecific purpose for their
situation.
That's kind of cool, man.
God's plan Washed by the blood.
John Wimber, one of my mentors,said when he heard that first
time, the first time he heardthat it was in the back of his
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mind.
He goes when do they make youdo that Wash in the blood?
Because that's what it soundedlike.
Has it been washed in the blood?
And he's like when are we goingto have to do that one?
Because this is all new to me.
Where washed in the blood is aterm referring to the cleansing
and forgiveness of sins throughJesus' blood.
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Hedge of protection?
Hedge of protection.
What in the world is a hedge ofprotection?
Is that like there's somepeople that are going to come in
your yard overnight and they'regoing to put up a hedge,
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they're going to plant somehedges and it's going to be some
protection because somebody'slike like, but like there's a, a
bad guy going to be coming yourway, or a robber or something.
Hedge of protection hedge where?
In christian community, hedgeprotection means a metaphorical
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phrase suggesting god'sprotection and security.
Faith, that's, that's, that'sfor anybody.
Faith well, faith, faith is acore Christian concept, often
understood differently bynon-Christians, meaning people
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have faith for getting a new car, but placing faith in Jesus for
their salvation are twodifferent things.
Fellowship that's notnecessarily a term that's used
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around the shop or around theoffice when you're talking about
having a get-together.
When you're talking abouthaving a get-together, but
fellowship in Christiancommunity often refers to the
close bonds and sharedexperiences.
Within Christian community.
You have fellowship like twofellows in a ship Sanctification
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, the process of becoming moreholy and pleasing to God.
Let's go through a couple morehere that I got written down
speaking in tongues.
What in the world is speakingin tongues?
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What in the world is speakingin tongues?
How much schooling do you haveto go to to get that one?
To speak in tongues, that meansspeaking other languages.
I have a hard enough timespeaking English, let alone
speaking in other tongues, buthere we're referring to a
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spiritual gift involvingspeaking in unknown tongues or
unknown language.
A spiritual gift?
Ah, a spiritual gift, yes, lastbut not least, fruit of the
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spirit.
Fruit of the spirit, if youlook at it face value.
Fruit of the spirit indicatesthat we are going to develop
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some type of product that ismuch like a tangerine, but
that's not what's being referredto here.
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It's a list of qualitiesassociated with living according
to the Holy Spirit, with livingaccording to the Holy Spirit.
Now, the list goes on, and Iknow that you get the point
already, and that is this thatwe all have things that we do
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and ways that we do them and howwe say them, that we know what
we mean, but other people don'thave a clue.
And I think it's important forus to review what's coming out
of our mouths and to make someadjustments right, but to do so
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without fear, without guilt andwithout shame.
There's no should to this.
This is something that we canlook at and say in light of the
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fact that we want to participatein this great demonstration of
God and we want to be able tocommunicate to as many people as
possible.
Let's take a look at how we arecommunicating to ourselves and
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to one another concerning thingsthat have developed as a result
of us stepping away from oneway of life, stepping away from
one lifestyle and into a new one.
But sometimes we leave peoplein the dust or in the dark, and
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I believe that it's importantfor us to learn how to speak in
a way that includes other peopleor, if nothing else, we can
speak in a way that we canexplain what it is that we mean
by what we're saying.
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But when we look at ourselves,in reviewing how we're going
about doing things, let's do itwith a sense of humor, not
beating each other up orourselves, but taking the time
and saying is there a way that Icould improve the way that I
say things, make them moreunderstandable?
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Because I believe there is.
That's free Father, thank youthat you love us enough to point
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out to us ways that we canimprove, to point out to us ways
that we can improve, and, inrelationship with you, you're
committed to the process ofseeing us grow from glory to
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glory, in becoming more and morelike you.
Jesus, holy Spirit, I ask thatyou take the simple words and
that you would broadcast themaround, and that you would help
us, collectively andindividually, adjust the way
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that we communicate so that wecan have the doors open even
wider for men, women andchildren to come into the
kingdom and not feel barred outby the way that we go about
saying things or that we'redefensive on how we express
ourselves, but we can becomeflexible.
Help us remember what it waslike to be on the outside, lord,
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and now that you have us withinthe community of saints, teach
us to be inclusive.
We ask these things standinghere in the name of Jesus, and
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we say amen, amen, amen, amen,amen.
I love you.
Folks say amen, amen, amen,amen, amen.
I love you, folks.
If you have any thoughts,questions, concerns, please feel
free to drop us a line atlifearoundthefire, at gmailcom,
or type in lifearoundthefire andlook us up on the web.
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We would love to hear from youIn the meantime.
God bless you.
Adios amigos.
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