I have received a lot of great teaching and insight from
Joyce Meyer. I admire that she overcame a great deal of abuse and trauma in her
life, that she was able to care for his
abusive father in his final days, even sharing the gospel with him.
a lesser known yet very dynamic Bob George have brought to my attention an
element of the gospel which is damnably and dangerously missing from our
churches. Not only did Jesus die for all of our sins, past present and future,
but He died as us, granting us a final release from the curse of the law and
granting us the power to become the children of God, by the power of the Holy
Spirit. Jesus came to give us life, and that more abundantly. He did not foist
on us a set of demands that we had to carry out on our own, despite knowing
that we will go to heaven when we die.
Pastor James Robison has also received this revelation. The
Gospel does not just provide us a ticket to heaven, but an entry into life
everlasting here and now on earth, which God asks us to work out with great
humility and joy.
element at length with her audience. She spends more time doling out daily
advice for living, when every believer has the Holy Spirit already, and does
not need that anyone should teach them anything. Instead of teaching about
God’s love for us, Meyer has made a point of indicating to her viewers that
they have to find more ways to love others. If we walk in the Spirit, then we
do not fulfill the lusts of the flesh, in fact we love, and to love is the
fulfillment of the law.
church lady who teaches other church people how to be better church people.
that through the Cross we become accepted in the Beloved. If there is any cure
for seeking the approval of man, it is both growing in grace, knowledge, and
belief in the love that God has for us. And to know this love best, we need to
understand how much God loves His own Son, and that notwithstanding this
infinite love He was willing to send His Son to die for us. If we struggle with
fear, anger, jealousy, bitter rivalries in church or at the work place, it is
due to the fact that we do not know how much God loves us, how much he has
forgiven us.
In her bestseller "Battlefield of the Mind," she gives the impression that there is still a war going on. In fact, God has already disarmed prince of darkness by nailing the ordinances against us at the Cross (Colossians 2: 15). We are called to bring all thoughts into captivity to the obedienc of Christ (2 Corinthians 10: 5)". This verse does not suggest that we have to work at it. In fact, every time that we get scared, upset, or sad, we can simply point ourselves back to the Finished Work of Jesus Christ, bu which we have peace with God. There is no further need for us to force our thinking into a certain line. We have peace with God already (:Romans 5: 1); we do not have to maintain an attitude of peace in order to retain this peace, but rather that our still fallen minds may be renewed to the eternal truth of who we are in Christ.
time teaching people the love of God, if she spent more time revealing the
majesty of Christ’s Finished Work, if she spent more time infusing her hearers
with the knowledge and power that they have in Christ, she would bring her viewers out of bondage, she would prosper the
body of Christ. Perhaps out of fear of losing a dedicated market, Meyer shares
her parochial life experiences, telling people about the mistakes and mishaps
that she has endured in her life. We need less experience, more eternity, we
need less caring, more Christ Jesus!