Comments on: On Not Importing Nashville

By: Kim

Kim — Sun, 03 Apr 2011 18:41:25 +0000

Have you read “Way of the Master” by Ray Comfort. He believes one of the main reasons we have ‘false converts’ is b/c people are offered grace before they are convinced of their need of it. Sin is too uncomfortable to deal with, so we jump straight to “God loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life.” Comfort contends that we need to do missions the way Jesus did. Help people to realize that they are sinners who are at enmity with God and they will run to Jesus.

By: marvin

marvin — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 17:05:28 +0000

“I personally am not willing settle for less than Jesus raising the dead.” Nicely put. Lazarus is my hero on this one. He was not able to do anything for himself. It took the encounter with Jesus to change him from death to life. It was simple transformation that occurred. Not redecoration.

Good words. Challenging words. Live like a dead man in the new life Jesus gives. And the only way that can happen is by His Holy Spirit breathed on us, in community where the death rags are stripped off by those around us, and bringing that transformed life out of the burial cave. Oh to willingly die that He would always live in me this way. Thanks for this, Bernie!

By: diane sekuloff

diane sekuloff — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 05:05:14 +0000

There are some prophetic truths in this Bernie. You can hear the same thing crying out in both testaments – They profess with their lips but their hearts are far from me. Be not only hearers of the Word but doers also.

And I know in my own heart it is a question of commitment – I don’t know about everyone else, but it is so easy to be busy and then only commit on the surface – and not really give myself to God’s people heart and soul. It’s about still wanting to have my 2500 square feet, and my comfort and privacy and safety, and the nice things in life, rather than really living amongst and with the poor, and risking all that. Indeed, vulnerability and availability are not cheap commodities, but very very costly – and I know in myself, that I am not giving 100% and pray for God’s mercy, and that He can touch some despite my limitations. I will have nothing to brag about when I face the mercy seat!

By: Joel Smythe

Joel Smythe — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 02:42:47 +0000

That’s a good word. LIked the line “. . . Bible trumps culture. Every time.” Prayed for you guys tonight in homegroup. It was neat to hear the Yoder boys pray that the Gospel would spread in Mongolia. Let it be so there . . . and in Nashville.

By: bernie

bernie — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 22:22:16 +0000

@ John – Thanks! Good to hear from you.

@ Marc – Sounds good! Do look us up if you’re ever heading this way!

By: Marc

Marc — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 19:34:09 +0000

Well said. If ministry is not done in the power of the Spirit, all is lost!

Would love to swing by and say “hi” sometime. My wife and I are raising support to go to Kunming. We also are planning on a couple of years of language school. I’ve always had a hankering to see Mongolia.

By: John Nehlig

John Nehlig — Fri, 01 Jan 2010 14:23:41 +0000

A hearty “Amen!”