If there is one thing Christian entertainer Dino Kartsonakis has learned through the COVID-19 pandemic, it’s resilience. Both he and his wife not only contracted and battled through the coronavirus, but he also has discovered the challenges of performing through modern technology instead of onstage—something he’s done for decades as a concert pianist.

On June 15, the multi-Gospel Music Association Dove Award-winner and former pianist for evangelist Kathryn Kuhlman will perform his first virtual concert, “Together Again With Dino,” worldwide via livestreaming, and you can enjoy the show from Nashville, Tennessee, from the comfort of your own home on your TV or computer, or on any mobile device you prefer.

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Dino and I go way back. I interviewed him previously on the Strang Report podcast, which you can listen to here.

He began making records in 1963 and won Dove Awards for Instrumentalist of the Year in 1978, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1983 and 1986. He also won Instrumental Album of the Year in 1993 and 1996.

After performing thousands of live events throughout his career, this event is a huge change for Dino. And it’s a huge leap of faith as well.

“I’ve never done this before,” Dino says. “A producer contacted me, and he’s an award-winning producer. He said to me, ‘Dino, I really feel we can do very well with you with this.’ The thing is, I’m kind of the first Christian artist that they’ve ever worked with. So, I think they are testing the waters.

“I’m trusting that Christians that know my music and those who don’t know my music will come on and purchase a ticket,” Dino says. “I’m just believing that hundreds of Christians will come on and support this, because this is going global. It’s really amazing how God has opened this door.

“I’ll be sitting at a brand-new Steinway grand piano that just came out,” he adds. “So I’ll be playing this gorgeous new piano and playing the songs that I have played for years—of course, gospel songs and hymns. It’s going to be loaded with music. … People don’t have to buy a ticket and come to a place. I’m coming to their living room. You will have the best seat in the house, so sit back and just let me entertain you with the music I’ll be playing that evening.”

Dino’s timeless melodies, personal touch and dramatic flair will bring believers together to celebrate hope we have for the future in Jesus Christ.

Again, the event will take place on Tuesday, June 15, beginning at 8 p.m. ET. Order “Together Again with Dino” by visiting . Please don’t miss this. You’ll be lifted up by this inspiring concert from a truly God-gifted individual.

I encourage you to listen to this podcast and spread the word about it to your followers on social media. Be sure to subscribe to the Strang Report on Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast platform for more words that will inspire and challenge you in the power of the Holy Spirit. {eoa}

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Working in a world where faith in God is often misrepresented or misunderstood poses unique challenges. Hailey Baldwin Bieber, wife to singer Justin Bieber, shares how her journey with the Lord has been tested by the fires of culture in a recent YouTube episode, “A Conversation With.”

She is joined by Christian author, comedian and actress Yvonne Orji to talk about what it looks like for a Christian to operate in their God-given callings in a secular field.

The two successful women learned early on in their careers and rise to places of influence in the public eye that their every move, including how they represent Jesus, would come under scrutiny. “Sometimes, it can be difficult to be in this industry believing what we believe,” Bieber says to Orji.

Regardless of what people say about their professions, Bieber and Orji know where they stand with God, and ultimately that’s what they’ve come to realize is most important.

Orji faced criticism from both the secular and Christian circles for her life choices but advice from her pastor stuck with her in those difficult moments: “If you’re the only Jesus that some people will ever see, is God in trouble?”

This, Orji says, doesn’t mean you must proselytize every moment, though there will be seasons where you are able to directly use your influence to lead someone to faith in Jesus. It means, she says, that living out your God-given calling in an authentic way will show His work in your life. And ultimately, “it has to be God that persuades somebody’s heart to believe in what I believe,” Orji says.

Orji says she strives to be the type of Christian that is a “walking version of the Bible,” and concludes, “Your life is a ministry whether you want it to be or not.”

“I’m a human being who is flawed and is going to continue to make mistakes and be flawed,” Beiber agrees. “But I do believe that when someone is persuaded, they’re persuaded by God and it’s not my job to do that.”

Opening up on the challenges she’s faced in the first year of marriage, and the difficulties the 2020 pandemic brought, Bieber recounts how she continually gets asked what “the biggest thing” is that keeps her marriage afloat under societal scrutiny. Her answer is always consistent: faith.

“It’s our faith, it’s what we believe,” she says. “And if we didn’t have that, we wouldn’t even be here, we wouldn’t even be together.”

Despite trials in marriage and in her work life, one thing remains for Bieber: authentically walking out her faith in Jesus will continue to be her guiding light, regardless of shifting expectations.

This, both women agree, is what wins souls.

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Many have been talking about the looming fear of the eminent market and economic crash. The crash of the almighty dollar is soon bound to happen, along with the collapse of all of the idolatrous images of men!

Some have said that this market crash of 2021 will be worse and more devastating than our latest economic crash, which took place globally and in the United States in 2008.

However, even in the middle of these pandemic predictions and preliminary projections, the church of Jesus Christ will only become more and more prosperous, powerful and positioned for the wealth of nations and the great billion-soul harvest.

The Great Wealth Transference

“A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just” (Prov. 13:22).

There is a great wealth transference taking place, and the mantles of old are being released unto this generation. The power and positions of authority and influence are being passed on to the new and next Joshua generations.

God is wanting to anoint and distinguish those who are daring enough to believe in creative opportunities amidst the dooming resistance and downfall of society.

Power to Create Wealth

The Bible says that our God gives us power to gain and obtain wealth! Heaven gives you dunamis power to start businesses, obtain multiple streams of income and to be a funder of the great harvest!

“But you must remember the Lord your God, for it is He who gives you the ability to get wealth, so that He may establish His covenant which He swore to your fathers, as it is today” (Deut. 8:18).

This is all part of our inheritance in Christ and is within our legal right and transaction of being in covenant with our Father. We are kings and queens, a royal priesthood on this earth.

We must be proactive and create systems of wealth, not depending on the crashing governments of the day nor in the deceptive ways of the world, but we must be salt and light and truly be a hub of God’s presence, plunder and provision to the nations.

The Billion Soul Harvest

The ability to have supernatural wealth creation is directly related to the billion-soul harvest that prophet Bob Jones and many others have prophesied about.

Everything is about the harvest. Everything is about souls and nations. Everything is about making disciples of all nations!

God wants us to preach and proclaim the gospel like never before. The days are clear, and the times are apparent. The climate of the world is changing rapidly, and we all must use all that we have and can to promote God’s message and plunder hell for our short lifespan on earth!

We must save souls and point people to Jesus. Heaven is waiting to be populated by millions and billions of more souls, and we need funders and financiers of the kingdom to be on the frontlines of the battle!

It is not time for us to shrink back in fear, hoarding our finances and withholding from the Lord. But we must even more so, give, sow, bless, love, build and invest now and today more than ever before.

Expect a great transference of wealth to come to those who are proactively fulfilling the Great Commission of Matthew 28. {eoa}

Dr. Ben Lim is the Senior Pastor of Open Heavens World which currently oversees three church plants in Southern California. He is a dynamic Millennial preacher who has traveled to nearly 50 countries in just the past 10 years. He spent his earlier years in the mission fields of Asia and Southeast Asia, preaching the gospel to unreached people groups. He is the CEO of Ben Lim Global and Ben Lim Ministries. His ministry is accompanied with notable signs, wonders and miracles. He holds a doctorate degree of theology from Next Dimension University. You can listen to his CPN podcast End Times’ Oracle.

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Christian entrepreneur Clay Clark, host of the Thrive Time Show on the internet, isn’t naïve about what is taking place in America right now. He knows exactly what the enemy is doing at this very moment to bring down this country which was founded more than 240 years ago on the Bible and Christian principles.

On a recent episode of my Strang Report podcast, Clark said he believes our newly-elected leaders are doing everything they can to partner with the kingdom of darkness—Satan’s government, as he calls it—to usher in a communist society. In turn, he says, that will lead directly to atheism, and that plays right into the hands of the enemy and the Antichrist, whom we all know by reading the Bible will come on to the scene during the end times.

Cancel culture, which I talk about in my new book God and Cancel Culture, is everywhere, and Christians are feeling the brunt of it every day. On another recent Strang Report podcast, Missionary Andrew Brunson told me that persecution is coming to the church, and a lot of members of the church, especially charismatics, aren’t prepared for it.

The transition to communism and a one-world government has been subtle. It’s one that many in the sleeping church have allowed, Clay says, due to the distractions Satan puts in front of us every day.

“We have been in a world where we are so irrevocably distracted—we’ve got soccer games, we’ve got the voices, the masked voices, and we’ve got the NFL and the NBA,” Clay says. “There is a new Netflix series coming out every day, we’ve got the Apple Watch, the smartphone, all of the apps. The average person is interrupted 100 times per day and now has the cognitive thinking skills of a third to fourth grader. The average American is so dumbed down by distractions that we need to take a time out, turn off the phone and do some of your own searching.

“Look it up. When you see that the CDC is calling for the implementation of Nazi-style concentration camps in America, that means you can’t put your trust in the CDC. So, go to and look up all these resources and then make a decision for yourself,” Clay continues. “What are you going to do? Every single person as a Christian—look at Luke chapter nine where Jesus instructs the apostles—needs to go out there from town to town, laying hands on people, praying for the sick, healing the sick and sharing the cause of Christ.

“I’m pretty positive the apostles and Jesus weren’t worried about their 501c3 status. They weren’t worried about lawsuits. They were worried about sharing Christ in a dying world that would be forever damned to hell without the salvation of Jesus Christ,” Clay says. “And that’s what we’ve got to do. It’s the time to wake up, everybody, and share the irrefutable Word of God; to share the truth and to let people know the only way through to get to heaven is through these narrow gates—And that is by accepting Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior.”

In this Strang Report podcast, Clay Clark and I talked about so many more interesting and somewhat disconcerting things connected to the end times, including his connection with a Kim Clement prophecy. So, I encourage you to listen to the podcast and spread the word about it to your followers on social media. Be sure to subscribe to the Strang Report on Apple Podcasts or your favorite podcast platform for more words that will inspire and challenge you in the power of the Holy Spirit. {eoa}

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From small-town Southern girl to YouTube cosmetic guru, Amanda Ensing quickly learned the price she would be asked to pay if she wanted to stand firm on her faith-filled convictions.

Growing up in Tennessee, Ensing remembers the jovial nature of her neighbors, and how being raised in a conservative Christian home was relatively without trial.

“We’re pro-God, pro-family, pro-freedom,” she recalls of her Puerto Rican immigrant family.

After stepping away in college from the godly values she was raised with, Ensing discovered vital facts about her identity: despite her wanderings, she truly identified as a conservative, and she knew what her God-given dream was, even if it went against familial expectations.

She started a YouTube channel focused on cosmetics, and after one viral video, her channel continued to grow. “I’d always talked about faith, but never about politics,” Ensing says. And yet, the sponsors that had been flooding to her account to promote their content slowly fell silent.

Seeing the way the media slants towards certain narratives made doubt to creep into Ensing’s heart, stirring seeds of uncertainty in her faith-based views. But in light of the events that transpired in summer 2020 with racial reconciliation, and a resurgence of conversations centered around growth as a nation, Ensing felt prompted to use her platform to speak out.

Major makeup brand Sephora sponsored Ensing but dropped her after cyberbullies attacked her online.

So Ensing took to her personal Instagram page to tell her story.

“There’s no price on your values, there’s no price on your voice. You can’t pay me to be quiet,” she said when Sephora offered to pay her if she took down the controversial video. “The truth is the truth, and I wanted to share the truth.”

“As a Christian, I only bow down to God, I don’t bow down to what people think of me,” she says. But “nobody can run away from cancel culture” until “next thing you know, there’s nothing left.”

Watch this video to find out what happened when Ensing stood up to the defamation she endured and the accountability she seeks to uphold in the beauty industry.

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“Who is the Holy Spirit?” That’s a loaded question in the church today. In one of his latest teachings, Pastor Mike Signorelli of V1 Church helps us understand just who is the Holy Spirit and His importance.

The Holy Spirit is the one who convicts. Before you receive salvation you don’t really know the weight of your decisions. Once you receive salvation, Signorelli explains, you begin to realize that you were dead to Christ and alive to sin. The Holy Spirit as explained in John 16:8-11 opens your eyes to the truth, to the difference between sin and righteousness.

The Holy Spirit empowers. Acts 2 is a beautiful testimony of what is possible when the Holy Spirit empowers and emboldens believers. Pastor Mike uses the modern-day example of a computer with WIFI versus one without, illustrating how the Holy Spirit does this.

A computer without WIFI is an entirely different experience than one with WIFI. A computer has base-level programs for you to use. That’s all. But once you add WIFI, a completely different experience opens up. As Christians, we have base-level programs too: read our Bible, pray and go to church. The Holy Spirit is what takes us beyond that. The Holy Spirit recalls verses, gives us wisdom and knowledge, and He gives us the boldness to witness (Acts 1:8).

Lastly, Signorelli focuses on how the Holy Spirit replenishes us. We will get depleted and it is vital that we fill up at the right source, which, Ephesians 5:18 tells us, is to be filled with the Holy Spirit.

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Dr. Daniel King recounted that one night. He was in Sierra Leone, and the boy, about 7 years old, had been deaf for two years.

But something changed that night.

“He was deaf in his left ear,” Daniel says. “The mother placed her hand on the son’s ear, and as we were praying, a black rock-like growth fell out of the boy’s ear into her hand!” Jesus completely healed him. Claps and cheers thundered throughout the entire village.

As long as there is still a human need, Jesus is reaching out through miracles and revealing Himself to people in tangible ways. You can become an evangelist winning souls for Jesus and demonstrating His healing power in this hour. In my recent interview with Daniel, author of You Can Become a Master Soul Winner: How to Lead People to Jesus, we discuss simple steps to evangelism from the woman at the well and the power of partnering with the Holy Spirit to meet people’s needs in a relevant way!

Our intimate moments with Jesus at the well are the starting point to share Jesus with others. In this episode of Revealing Jesus on the Charisma Podcast Network, Daniel and I discuss a simple method for sharing the gospel with others and stories of miracles.

“Miracles are like the dinner bell that draws people to the banquet of heaven,” Daniel said on a recent episode of Revealing Jesus. “It reveals Jesus in a very tangible way to them.” They see the miracles, and they want to give their lives to a relevant God.

Whatever your need is today, Jesus is alive and still reaching out to you, revealing Himself in a way that more than meets your needs. Once you have encountered the living Jesus, no one can ever tell you He is not real. You will run with a burning passion, leading others to the magnificent Savior you’ve encountered.

To hear more of my conversation with Dr. Daniel King about how you can win souls and invest in eternity,listen to the entire episode of Revealing Jesus. Also, if you are believing to see the salvation of a loved one, be sure to listen to the end for powerful prayer. Be sure to check out You Can Become a Master Soul Winner: How to Lead People to Jesus. If you are hungry to hear more of Jesus through teaching, interviews and testimonies, listen toRevealing Jesus with Christina Perera on the Charisma Podcast Network. Be sure to subscribe to Revealing Jesus on your favorite platform for more inspiring interviews like this one. {eoa}

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Are you one of the millions who feel constantly busy? Do you wake up thinking: I might as well stay in bed. There’s no way I can get everything done! Obviously, that’s not a good way to live. God would much rather see you relaxed and confident in Him, peaceful and fulfilling your purpose in life. So, if you’re in a habit of feeling anxious and overwhelmed, I want to help you fix that.

You may think time is the problem—that there just isn’t enough of it. But God gives everyone the same amount. We all have 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. I guess that’s God’s way of saying that’s all the time we need to live a well-balanced life with plenty of time for work, rest and play.

Ecclesiastes 3:1 (NIV) says, “There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens.”

Instead of dreading that you don’t have enough time, you can make the decision to have more wisdom with the way you spend your time.

We spend time just like we spend money. When we spend it, it’s gone, and we can’t get it back. So we need to think about what we are spending it on and decide whether or not we are making the right choices.

No matter what’s on your to-do list today, I want to encourage you to know God hasn’t created you just to be busy. He wants you to live purposefully and be fruitful.

And the secret to being fruitful is simply to have a close, personal relationship with God.

John 15:5 (AMPC) says, “I am the Vine; you are the branches. Whoever lives in Me and I in him bears much (abundant) fruit. However, apart from Me [cut off from vital union with Me] you can do nothing.”

No matter what you have to do to make time with God your top priority, you are never going to regret doing it. There is absolutely no better way to spend your time than to pray and study God’s Word. It will bring you peace, joy, confidence, wisdom and understanding. You’ll be encouraged. You can be healed. There’s just no end to the good things that can happen in your life when you put God first.

You may have to wake up extra early or stay up later at night, but I encourage you to set aside time daily to spend with God. And when you do, listen for His voice. One reason people feel pressured and under so much stress is that they’re listening to every voice around them except the voice of God.

Matthew 11:28-29 says, “Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy-laden and overburdened, and I will cause you to rest. [I will ease and relieve and refresh your souls.] Take My yoke upon you and learn of Me, for I am gentle (meek) and humble (lowly) in heart, and you will find rest (relief and ease and refreshment and recreation and blessed quiet) for your souls.”

Even Jesus spent time alone with God before He went out into the world to do ministry, and He only did what God put before Him to do. He didn’t let other people determine His schedule. If we will do the same, then our lives can be peaceful and purposeful as well as fruitful.

Are you living purposefully or just being busy? Have you ever had a day when you were busy all day long but couldn’t tell what you accomplished at the end of it? We don’t have to live that way.

God wants to encourage us through His Word to live as people of purpose, making the most of the time we’re given.

John 15:8 says, “When you bear (produce) much fruit, My Father is honored and glorified, and you show and prove yourselves to be true followers of Mine.”

Following God can sometimes sound like a huge, impossible task. But you can be a great witness for God just by being productive and resting in His presence as you go about your daily life.

When you feel like you’ve lost your balance again and things are getting busy, don’t just drag yourself through the day. Make time with God your priority. He will give you the strength you need to live each day with peace and purpose as you accomplish everything He’s calling you to do. {eoa}

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Since the COVID-19 pandemic hit North America early last year, preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ has been a major challenge for everyone. It has proven even more difficult on ministers, pastors and churches in Canada, which implemented some of the more stringent worship service restrictions on the continent.

But for Sandra Benaglia Smith and her husband, Todd, “the Word does not stop just because Canada is locked down.” As the co-founders of Fresh Fire Apostolic Ministries in Ontario, Canada, the couple, while totally complying with government protocol, is using every means necessary to bring the gospel to the Canadian people and to the world via the internet.

The two co-host the Fresh Fire Podcast on the Charisma Podcast Network, helping listeners encounter a fresh wind of God’s fire every day. The podcast will help listeners increase their faith through powerful and kingdom anointed teachings.

Since the lockdown began in 2020, churches in Canada have faced multiple run-ins with the police, and one pastor in Alberta spent a month in jail for repeated refusals to comply. Many churches in America have been back at full attendance for a few months.

“Ours is a full-time ministry, and it’s a 24/7 call of God,” Sandra told Dr. Steve Greene on a recent episode of Greenelines on the Charisma Podcast Network. “When people need you, you are there.

“We’ve been on complete lockdown, but we’ve just heard from the province of Ontario in the last couple of days that we’re going to be opening up partially on June 16,” she says. “So the churches have really, really suffered. We’re only allowed 10 people in a facility, so we’ve been using social media platforms to get the message out. We’ve still been open every Sunday for those who want to come, but we’ve been very careful. We are still full-bore ministering, and we do deliverance sessions. Throughout the week, we do private counseling even through Zoom social media.”

Todd Smith says despite the pandemic, the enemy hasn’t been able to stifle God’s kingdom in Canada.

“What the enemy has tried to do to close the churches isn’t working,” Todd says, “because Facebook is alive and well, and social media is letting us get out there to the people.”

The Smiths have used Zoom to do group intercession, and they have conducted “encounters” through social media.

“We just keep going,” Sandra says. “I just find that the need for healing and deliverance has increased far more than we can ever see right now because people are so far under oppression and depression. We need Jesus; we need God. So we will use whatever avenue we have to continue the work of the ministry.

For more of this compelling interview, listen to the entire podcast here, and subscribe to Greenelines on your favorite podcast platform for more inspiring stories like this one. And don’t forget to tune into the Fresh Fire Podcast with Todd and Sandra Benaglia Smith on the Charisma Podcast network. {eoa}

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Since my conversion to Christ, I have observed seven serious gaps in the church. If not corrected, these gaps will significantly limit the ability of the church to fulfill the great commission.

To deal with this issue, the national organization I lead, USCAL, has an annual Bridge Summit conference. At this impactful conference, significant leaders are brought together from every facet of society to help bridge the following seven gaps.

1. The gap between church and workplace leaders: Since about only 2% of the typical church member will ever go into full-time church ministry, discipleship should be focused more on bringing the gospel to the workplace than preparing people for the church-place. Unfortunately, we have trained the typical Christian to bring their friends to church to be saved instead of equipping them to make disciples outside the four walls of the church.

Christ-followers have to stop depending on a Sunday service in a building so that they can take the gospel to the entire world. Furthermore, workplace believers need to view themselves as ministers of the gospel in the same way church-place leaders are viewed as ministers. The primary purpose of the church-place should be to equip the saints for the workplace. Unless this shifts, the church will have more influence on Sunday than on Monday, and our society will continue to decline.

2. The gap between younger and older leaders: There is a considerable gap between Baby Boomers, Millennials and Generation Z. They speak the same language but have different connotations attached to the words they use to communicate.

Much dialogue and new partnerships are necessary amongst these three groups if the baton is going to be successfully passed to the emerging leaders of the church. It will be a shame if the younger generation goes without gleaning from older leaders’ wisdom and life experience, and an equal shame if older leaders refuse to learn from younger leaders and adapt to a multigenerational approach to ministry. This is why our coalition intentionally includes young, influential leaders in every event.

3. The gap between different ethnic leaders: Sunday morning is still perhaps the most segregated two hours of the week because there are still huge ethnic gaps separating the body. This gap may have even worsened in the church since the last presidential election. One of the goals of the leaders of the United States Coalition of Apostolic Leaders is to bridge the gap between ethnic leaders. This is why our events are ethnically diverse.
4. The gap between the Word and the Spirit: Jesus told us to worship the Father in spirit and in truth (John 4:23,24). He told the Pharisees that they were in error because they knew not the Scriptures nor the power of God (Matt. 22:29). If today’s church is going to be effective in reaching the world, we have to mimic the church of the book of Acts. There we observe that they had a great handle on the Scriptures (as we can see from examining this book’s sermons). Today’s church should also move in the demonstration of the power of Jesus to convince unbelievers of the reality of Jesus’ Resurrection.

In our annual Bridge Summit, we have rich theological content in our teaching and allow the Holy Spirit to move through prayer and prophetic ministry.

5. The gap between male and female leadership: The conservative evangelical church has often overlooked the important role women have in extending the influence of the kingdom of God. As we can see in both testaments of the Bible, women have played a significant role in leadership and in influencing not only their families, but the nation of Israel and the church as well. (The biblical examples are too numerous to cite in this brief article.)

Unless the broader body of Christ recognizes the role of women in leadership, we will continue to underutilize the majority of Christ-followers in our churches. This greatly limits our capacity to spread the gospel and extend His kingdom’s influence. In our movement, we highlight extraordinary women as presenters. They contribute to closing this gap in the church.

6. The gap between revival and reformation: I have observed that often those who are proponents of prayer and fasting for revival don’t associate with Christian activists and reformers who deal with politics, policy and cultural issues and vice versa. However, both testaments of the Bible illustrate that we need people involved in prayer and policy. (See the book of Esther, Nehemiah, Ezra, Daniel, as well as the book of Acts. We see high-level leaders like Cornelius, Sergius Paulus, Manaen and others coming to Christ and helping to spread the gospel.)
7. The gap between serving God with the heart and the mind: The Lord Jesus told His followers to love God with all their heart, mind and soul, which is the first and foremost commandment of the law (Matt. 22:37-40). In the charismatic and evangelical church of America, we see that within the past few generations, there has been a bypassing of the mind and more of a connection with the emotions of Christians. Consequently, there has been a dualism regarding applying the Bible to human life. The church has only focused on spiritual things and disregarded the other aspects of the created order regarding politics, economics, education and all the sciences.

When Jesus said that He is the truth, He said that in Him is all truth, not just biblical truth or spiritual truth (John 14:6). Truly, in Him, all things of the universe hold together, all things and not just spiritual things (Col. 1:17, Heb. 1:3). Until Christ-followers embrace the fact that the Word of God contains a biblical world and life view applicable to all of life on the earth, our effectiveness in attracting and equipping the next generation of world changers will not be realized.

In closing, at the Bridge Summit, significant leaders from various sectors of society grapple with all of the seven issues articulated by the seven points above.

To register for the Bridge Summit, which takes place on Tuesday, June 15, online, click here. {eoa}

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