Monday, February 27, 2012

preachers

I was watching Charles Price the other day and was greatly blessed by his ministry. I had heard that years ago a local church had a chance to have him as it's pastor but that it didn't work out. Toronto's People's Church are no doubt glad for that. Perhaps it is well that he ended up elsewhere. We may well have destroyed his work as we have done to so many other pastors. I have encountered people in two distinct fields, multiple examples in each who have expressed the opinion that something is wrong in Brantford. One is the medical field. Outside of Brantford the BGH is known as the death hospital and personal experience has taught be two things. One is that the name may well be deserved and two, don't question this because you will be beaten down. The other field is faith. Brantford is looked on as a black hole for pastors which kills any real callings and grinds them down and again don't question this. In a vision about Brantford during a time of intercession a huge black tower stronghold was seen in the midst of the city. I trust this source. I have sat in intercessory prayer meetings elsewhere and never do I hear actual warfare prayer for this city and the biblical spiritual needs of the church. Not long after the tower vision, that particular group was broken up, not suprisingly, by other sincere Christians who toe the local social gospel line.
I mention two areas but others spring to mind. Politics,education,law and others. Main areas that shape society for this city. The church is called to be the salt. In Brantford is this true?

Sunday, February 19, 2012

thinking about the future

I was just laid off at ITML and will be at my leisure until August unless the company changes plans. This isn't a bad thing since I have a few physical issues to work out. I was waiting today for a service guy to show up (he didn't)and I got to looking around the web at retirement businesses and sites that cover such topics and I found one by Steve Pavoloni (I think) where he suggests a method of finding your real calling. The thing you really have a passion for. I got into the exercise for about 20 or 30 minutes and found no surprises but the process of articulating what I would like to do was encouraging and thought provoking. An idea which emerged was some sort of place where perhaps a business (not a coffee shop) but perhaps a co-work centre or media/book store might operate but be a place where open conversations might happen and lead to networking for edification,exhortation,encouragement in faith, business ventures,sort of a christian clearing house for life improvement which isn't tied to a particular church but can build ties to all of them without fear.