If you have any real passion fired by the love of God and have experienced the riches of his kindness and have understood just a fraction of God’s beautiful grace there’s nothing to shut you up. Once I became born of God, it has been a fire in me that is not quenched. Even in the worst moments in my life, when I was darkend and hurt…yet a believer…I had within me a gospel that went beyond my inner turmoils and expressed itself in hope.

I dont know how anyone can keep quiet about Jesus Christ. Im at a loss to understand anyone that calls themselves a believer and doesnt look for a way to express the gospel. I know even the worst situations where persecution rages, the preaching of the gospel goes forth.
What is inside of them that hazards everything and then places their bodies on an altar to be cruely treated by their persecutors…yet they spill over in ‘words’ that express the glorious power of God to save sinners.

Ive never known anyone to ask me what makes me different. They already know it. Theyve heard me speaking, theyve been silent hearers of my conversations about Jesus Christ. At the bare minimum they seem my bible at work or at lunch. They dont have to guess at what Im about, so when someone asks me, they dont assume Islam, Hindu, Krishna, Occult, they dont assume Mormon either or JW they ask me…are you a Christian?

If Satan can get a person to keep quiet about Jesus…they are probably grieving the Spirit of God. But if that person begins to say
“my moral life speaks loud enough”….something is strangely different about them compared to a disciple of Jesus empowered by his Spirit.

There is nothing natural about me speaking about Jesus Christ. I am not naturally a talkative person, Im not naturally confrontative or interested in injecting contraversial subjects into someone and then creating an issue over it. Ive never naturally cared two hoots about people in general. It wasnt until Jesus Christ saved me that such a radical change occured. Now its the opposite, I must preach the gospel and all that God made me would die if I couldnt express the testimony of Jesus Christ and his glorious gospel.

John

In order to believe the gospel you must KNOW the gospel, and how can you know the gospel without reading it or hearing it.

Can a Pastor preach without words? Can the president speak without words?

Silly questions right, that is what is being said, preaching=speaking

So you are saying you never heard the gospel before you were saved?

Use words always live like Christ always, seek wisdom and discernment always.

If someone is Christ (NOT GOD) less than what are there works reguardless where they are at (Calcutta, LA, Japan…) they are Christless.

You say you disagree with her theologically, what do you disagree with her on? Are those issues salvation issues? Then it might just be her works are “Godless.”

As for the main thrust of this discussion, as I read it, the author of the quote might as well be saying “Be doers of the word and not hearers only.” ( http://www.bibleanswer.com/jas1_doers.htm ) I mean, he says “use words” – there’s no claim that anyone can preach exclusively by actions, but as James 1:21-27 says: “Be doers of the word and not hearers only, deluding yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his own face in a mirror. He sees himself, then goes off and promptly forgets what he looked like. But the one who peers into the perfect law of freedom and perseveres, and is not a hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, such a one shall be blessed in what he does.
If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, his religion is vain.Religion that is pure and undefiled before God and the Father is this: to care for orphans and widows in their affliction and to keep oneself unstained by the world.”

Use words when necessary, but for Christ’s sake, live like you mean it.

Anyway, give attention to proper worship [regulative principle-ish]. I say “ish” to avoid seeming “programatic” to use your word, but let the Lord give the increase, you all just preach the word faithfully.

We have been very encouraged by what is going on with a lot of you in SOCAL, keep up the good work.

on a similar note, I have been told that around the world Muslims are coming to church saying the Lord told them to come in a vision and find out about Him, apperently its not one or two but many Muslims.

Thought that was kinda of encouraging have to find the report though.