May 19-21, 2011
Chicago, IL
Risen Savior Assembly of God
6061 South Archer Ave.
August 21-23, 2011
Jacksonville, FL
Calvary Worship Center
3266 Southside Blvd
October 23-25, 2011
St. Cloud, MN
Life Assembly of God
2409 Clearwater Road
November 13-15, 2011
Woodstock, IL
Woodstock Assembly of God
1201 Dean Street
January 15-17, 2012
Estero, FL
River of Life Assembly of God
21580 River Ranch Road
Those of you in Florida may want to put this date in your calendar. Ron Auch will be speaking at the :
Redemptions Song conference
Feb.27 – March 2, 2011
Eagles Nest Worship Center A/G
Naples, Fl
If you live in the greater Rapid City, SD area – Pastor Ron Auch will be doing a conference for Bob Maddox at Westgate Community Church on Saturday the 23rd at
9:00am. It goes until 1:00pm. It would be great to have you come and
get excited about the power of prayer. Call the office for more info.
605-786-4709
January 6-8, 2011
Estero, FL
River of Life Assembly of God
21580 River Ranch Rd.
March 3-5, 2011
Chicago,IL
Risen Savior Assembly of God
6061 So. Archer Ave.
March 24-26, 2011
Apple Valley, MN
Mount Olivet Assembly of God
14201 Cedar Ave.
April 7-9, 2011
Onalaska, WI
River of Life Assembly of God
1214 County Rd PH.
September 12-14, 2010
6pm start time each night
The Road to Powerful Prayer
Harvest Family Worship Centre
712 West Locust Street
Bloomington, IL
Speaker: Ron Auch
October 22 – 24, 2010
The Road to Powerful Prayer
Westgate Community Assembly of God
Rapid City, SD
Speaker: Ron Auch
November 14 – 17, 2010
The Road to Powerful Prayer
River of Life Assembly of God
Onalaska, WI
Speaker: Ron Auch
Just to let our followers know, the Jesus Sensitive Church is now on Facebook. Join us for a great read, and discussion with others!
Holiness requires a presence and holiness has to do with moral blamelessness and purity. As I was praying over this message and asking God for his thoughts the Lord spoke to me about the child. He impressed upon me how His presence can be seen in a child.
When we talk about moral purity we are talking about both God and children. Both are morally pure and blameless.
If the presence of God is not strong in your life you are completely comfortable with taking Him into some of the most ungodly places there are. The way you can see your error in this is with your children. Isn’t it interesting to think about how careless we are about the presence of God and taking him wherever we go and yet we would never think of taking our children to those same places.
Mark 9:42 “And if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to be thrown into the sea with a large millstone tied around his neck.
Based on verses like this, most Christian parents would never think of purposely staining their children with corruption, cursing, and violence, yet we tend to think that God doesn’t mind when we take him along with us in all that we do.
Do you see the hypocrisy in that? If I have anything in my life that I do not want my children to see then I am being a hypocrite. I am saying that I feel indifferent about two opposing things. I am saying I believe in holiness while I have unholy things in my life. If it’s not good enough for your children it’s unholy.
Do you want to know the simple rule of thumb we live by in our family? If we rent a movie it’s something everyone one of us can sit down and watch at the same time – without any embarrassment, apology, or altering. If the presence of your children causes you to act and live differently than when you are away from them then there is a problem in your life. Why are we more protective of our children than we are of our God? We do many things we would never take our children to and yet at the very same time – we take God with us.
Have an update. Pray-Tell Ministries has had two conferences the past couple months. One on the Southside of Chicago at Risen Savior AG, a Marriage Conference. Ron Auch, Brad Williams, and one of Prayer House AG’s Men’s leaders Chrtistian Nelson, enjoyed the hospitality of Pastor Danny Bawinkel and his family during the two day conference. We had a wide variety of participants. Ron had a Prayer Conference in Naples, FL in late April which he really enjoyed. It was real warm in Florida, and it was cool here in Wisconsin. Ron spent time by the pool. Poor guy.
We have a Jesus Sensitive Conference in Honolulu, HI, June 3rd – 5th. See the Jesus Sensitive Church website for more information. We have more Prayer Conferences coming up this year.
Hey everyone in Alaska, January 14-16, 2010 is fast approaching. The next scheduled Jesus Sensitive Conference will take place at First Assembly of God in Fairbanks. Hope to see you there!
First Assembly of God
2830 Airport Way
Fairbanks, AK 99709
Phone: 907-474-9112
Fax: 907-474-9119
Email: firstaog@alaska.com
I wasn’t able to get on the computer during the conference due to my computer problems, but those are resolved amen, so I am going to give my view of it.
One view after attending my first one, is I believe it is a conference that the “Church” should attend. I know…. since I am a part of Pray-Tell I am biased, but I am looking beyond that. It was my first Jesus Sensitive conference I have attended since joining Pray-Tell this year. Yes it is Pentecostal in nature, as Pray-Tell is an evangelical organization as well as being pentecostal in belief and action. Again, you have to look beyond that. What was presented at the conference was the “Word”. Scripture. The speakers did not go off on their own presenting “what they thought” the scriptures said. They spoke what scripture said. Concerning the church, the Bible is quite clear on how it should run, how it should act, and what its purpose is. This conference attempted to lead the church back to the basics again.
The church in America and Europe due to prosperity lost its dependence on God. When God should have been worshipped, praised and honored for freedom, He was neglected. People looked to their own knowledge and wealth to live. All you have to do is look to the past which has shown us when God has blessed his people with freedom, they take advantage of the freedom and drift away. You see this in the Word of God. Israel, who saw the power of God time and time again (when the people did not view themselves as free) turned their backs on God when they received freedom from their opressors. They walked from God, were opressed, cried out to God, were freed by God, one or two generations looked to God, then the next generations fell away. It was a cycle that continues to this day. The Word of God easily lays out that we should walk the same, in good or bad times. Good times should continue with good times, but we easily forget who placed us in our “freedom”. Concerning the church, you can look back and follow the same pattern. When opressed, it thrives, when it is free to worship, it seems to die. Why, third and forth generation leaders have only heard of the power of God. They talk about it in past tense or talk about it with out pursuing it. They have not seen it themselves or only in a small way, so what do they do? They create their own way. Instead of taking time to reach out to their Creator to recreate what was known, what was written about in the Creator’s Word, they look to themselves to create a different way. A new model. They go from model to model to model trying to find the right model. Find the right way to Father. The Creator. But they never get it right. Why? We are not creators. We were never given the responsibility to create. Creation has already taken place. It is our responsibility to reconcile. Jesus came back to reconcile creation back to God. He gave us that responsibility as believers. We are to live the Word in its entirety because we will live life to the fullest. We are to operate in the Gifts of the Spirit so we can minister to others to gloriy God. Everything is about glorifing God. The gifts and the power that are revealed through a believer only comes directly from God. Man cannot “make” them up. Same with the church. The church was created to glorify God, connect with God, get believers together, learn the Word together, operate in the gifts for the church and unchurched. It failed by looking to itself for its own power. The church has become a shell in some places. If there are believers, it is a place were where they can meet with themselves like a club. You have to be like a club member or convert yourselves to be like a club member to join or feel comfortable in the club. In the time of Jesus there was this club mentality. The pharisees were the heads of the club. If you were not like them, they you couldn’t be a part of it. Jesus threw down that thinking. He established a new order. An order of freedom called grace. We need to walk in that grace again. But Jesus also threw in power. The church in the past 30 years from my point of view, has been trying to get it right again. The church is reaching out to the unchurched. It is trying to missional again in nature. People also want more of the Word of God. I believe it is due to the Spirit of God moving in His church. The traditional church of the 50′s and 60′s is dying away, but we have moved to a era where we are on the eve of either the church returning to its roots (which I believe what God is moving us to), or continuation of status quo. Moving us back to our roots means moving us back to what works. What works is established in the Word of God. Status quo is continue doing what man wants to do, another way of doing church since the last one didn’t work. Getting back to the conference, it was all about connecting to God and again partnering up with Him to reconcile people back to Him. Using His ways again. If you look at statistics, the church has falled miserably with over 90% of the youngest generation not wanting anything to do with organized religion. I am not against any church, fellowship or denomination, but our ways have not connected with people like we should. All of the new church movements or concepts for doing church have only worked for a season. The only thing that is working is those churches whose leadership have gone back to the basics and sought after God for direction, and walked in the full giftings of the Gospel. Now just because a church is growing does not mean it is operating in the fullness of the Gospel. There are churches that a large, but basically have a club like atmosphere. Repentance is not a high priority, neither is being holy. Lives are not changed. People are living almost as they were before they “joined”. This is something that needs to change. We should change after an encounter with Christ. We need to shake off the sin that entangles us in the name of Jesus. We need to live for Christ like He is coming back today. We need to be a spotless bride upon His return. I know many church leaders who are working their fingers to the bone to bring unchurched people to Jesus. I commend them for that. But when the people arrive, how ever they get there, they need all of Jesus, not just parts of Him.
Blessed be the name of the Lord.
Brad
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