Monday, April 16, 2007

One day a group of people got together. They had all been healed by Jesus. One asked another to tell their story of how Jesus touched them and healed them. "What do you mean touched me? Jesus never touched me." "But I thought you said he'd healed you?" "He did, but He never touched me." "How did He heal you then?" "He spoke with authority and He healed me"
so 2 groups formed. One the touchy church who had been healed by Jesus touching them, the other the church of the word.
They each gathered on a sunday to speak about their healings and the greatness of God. The touchy church singing 'touch me Jesus', the church of the word 'speak now to me Lord'.
A few months went by. A new person moved to town, and it came to the attention of the church leaders that he also had been healed by Jesus. The leader of the touchy church stepped foward. "I understand you have been healed by Jesus, we'd like you to come to our church and speak to us about how He touched you and healed you." "I'd love to," came the response, "But Jesus never touched me. He healed me, yes, but He never touched me." The leader of the church of the word stepped foward. "In that case, we'd like you to come to our church on sunday to talk to us about how Jesus spoke to you with such authority and healed you." "What do you mean? Jesus never spoke to me, well He did but thats not how He healed me." Intrigued they asked him how he had been healed then. "Well He did what He always does when He heals people" "What was that?" "He just spat in my eye."
So he formed the church of the holy spittle. Each sunday they gathered to sing 'spittle of the living God fall afresh on me'

The point of this story? When we try to put Jesus into a box and say 'this is how He always does things' He steps out of it. We need to accept that Jesus deals with different people in different ways. When recieving the spirit one person might fall over whilst another laughs or cries. another may not even show it on the outside, but feel an uplifting of their spirit inside. We cant push people out just because they react differently to God or have different gifts and abilities. We are all one in the body of Christ. If we push the foot out, how will we stand? If we push the Hand out, how can we serve?

1 Comments:

Blogger Unknown said...

LOL Love it!

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