CC Tongues & Interpretation Report For Coonskinner
 

Some time ago Coonskinner asked if Christ Church Nashville ever saw the operation of the gift of tongues and interpretation in services.

Since that time I have tried to remember to post and update him when it happens.

In today's second Sunday morning service was the first for 2008 that I am aware of.

Kind of hurts our image as "Bapticostals".........:toofunny

So was there a message today?
...and if so, what was said?

"Yea I say, I haven't been here in several months, so I thought I'd drop in and remind you of Who I am.":stirpot

That was really funny!!:toofunny:toofunny:toofunny

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Do you have it on DVD? :toofunny

I'm just reading this now... :toofunny

"Go thee to Tulsa!"

"Yeah I say... kewl building, great choir..."

Yes but "Yea saith the Lord, Thou shalt raise the price of Double Mocha Latte by 50 cents saith the Lord" does not count

Please refer to it by its proper name, thank you.

That would be: Tulsarusalem !!

You must think we are a liberal UPC church. We do not sell DVD's /Videos of our services.

It has only been the last couple of years that we sold CD's!!!!

Yea I say unto thee, CC1 getteth out of the coffee shop and gettest thou back into the service!!!!
PS: Giveth all thine goods (big screen projector) to a Monkeyman of the North

LOL!!!! Using that King James English almost persuadest me.

I do have to confess that one morning I was in the early service I was feeling ill and had not eaten breakfast so I slipped out to the coffee shop and ate a hot cinnamon roll while watching that part of the service on the big plasma screen in the coffee shop. I slipped back into service in a much better frame of mind!

You'd think with all the triple shot mochas being served at C.C., you would see more "Jerichoing" around there, lol!!!

Just kidding man, I couldn't resist!!:stretch:

The past few months Dan Scott has been teaching / preaching about the place of emotion in worship, etc.

CC is not going to become POA but he has made some good points about how the human psyche works and that when people are desperate and in need of God they probably need to cry out in an emotionally way to him even though God is not deaf and does not need that to hear us. It is for themselves they do this.

Dan has been leading the church to be more open to emotional worship within reason without becoming emotion based as my heritage in old time Pentecost many times is.

The presence of God is very strong at Christ Church and I have been as touched and blessed there as in any Pentecostal service. I would like to see it move a little more "emotional" but not much as I think it has a good biblical balance. I don't see what old time Pentecostals call "shouting" anywhere in the New Testament.

ROFL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :toofunny

Maybe I'm missing something here, so I'll just ask again...
Was there a message via tongues/interpretation there on Sunday ?
And if so, what was it?

Yes there was. It was an encouragement to the church and reminder that God wants to use CC to reach our city, etc for Him, etc. Also a call to draw close to God. Nothing about Tulsa. LOL!!

The thread is really just kind of kidding not because there was any special thing imparted.

A long time ago I think CS and others had the idea that Christ Church was so "Baptist" like that it did not have any move of the Spirit or operations of the Spirit. CS asked one time if T&I ever happened during services and it does probably a half dozen times a year so I started posting when it happens as a "report to Coonskinner"! LOL!!

I don't think anyone with an open mind would visit CC on a Sunday morning and not experience the presence of God in a powerful way even though it is different from a traditional Pentecostal emotional shockamoo service. That flies in the face of what somes perception of Christ Church Nashville is and I try to set the record straight.

I had a relative visit Christ Church about 5 years ago, and they reported that it was "dead, with no spirit"...it's good to hear otherwise.

I am not saying this is what happened with your relative but I can tell you that many times UPC type folks come to a place like Christ Church or Kenneth Phillips Promiseland Church with a closed mind.

When we first moved to Austin in the early 80's and were a part of KP's World of Pentecost church we would have our UPC relatives come and visit church. It usually consisted of them looking around with stoic faces while the Holy Spirit was moving as they judged the way people looked. They were so busy taking note of the makeup, cut hair, jewelry, etc that they could not have plugged into the presence of God if their life depended on it.

Happily many of them eventually got past the differences with their paradigm and began to enjoy the services and the presence of God. In particular one relative had a "come to Jesus" ephiphony during a service at WOP. She had visited numerous times and as usual this time while praise and worship service was going on she was looking around judging folks in her mind. She was observing a woman with raised hands singing and praying and noticed her mascara was running. She thought to herself "how can she think she is worshipping God with that mascara running on her face!". At that instant she said God spoke to her and said something like "So who is right with God? The woman worshipping and enjoying my presence or you who is sitting in judgement and ignoring my presence?" That moment changed her forever and from then on she began to be blessed and enjoy the presence of God at WOP. She was a UPC preachers wife and it was pretty funny because she came to love KP and became a huge defender of his when she would be in situations with UPC preachers ,etc and they would start to criticize KP or his church.

If someone visits CC expecting shockamoo they are going to be disappointed. If they are sensitive to the awesome presence of God in other ways then most times they will be blessed. Have we ever had a totally "dead" service? Yup but I could count them on one hand over the eight years I have been here.

On my next visit to "Cashville", I will check out CC for sure!

I would love to meet you. I have never met a Canadian Mexican before!!!! LOL

Do you plan on coming our way anytime soon? You could be a pioneer in bringing shockamoo to CC. I could sit with you close to the front and you could take to the floor with the "helicopter" or "snapback jerk" on the first fast song!:stretch::stretch::jogging:

I was just thinking...
If there was an ongoing "Tongues and Interpretation Thread" where saints would post messages that the Lord spoke to our local churches, that might be good thing!

I don't.

The gifts don't translate well outside the environment they appear in.

I'm afraid it would almost invite cynicism or skepticism from those who are bent that way anyhow.

I know which pocket has my keys and don't need to hear what other fortunetelling was told.

I completely agree with this! Not a good idea at all...

I agree. That is why I didn't get into the details.

Very good post. I agree.

Fair enough.

I guess I'd hate to report a word that the Lord spoke to us, and then have someone here say something contradictory or skeptical toward it. Knowing me, I'd probably get a little indignant, to say the least.

Fortune-telling?
Maybe I'm missing your meaning there as far as the fortunetelling reference. .

I think that God speaks specifically for specific times and purposes...it wouldn't translate well at all here.... because it would take His Words out of context and meaning... and lesson the value of His Words...

I agree with the above folks...

Following up on that, do we think its a bad idea generally to tell "an outsider" of a revelation or prophetic word the Lord gives?

I ask that because several times I have heard of people telling of prophecies and tongues/interpretation messages the lord gave to their church, and I've found it quite a blessing.

I agree that at times sharing these can be a blessing but I think what CS and others fear is that a thread would become a place to share the times when a human being "misses the mark". Let's face it, that does happen at times.

I am sure most of us have funny or sad stories of that happening but it is a very serious subject matter that should be carefully handled.

There is also the matter of keeping this kind of word in perspective and making sure it is not elevated above the written word of God that is not subject to the mistakes of a human being delivering it.

I must say I can agree to an extent but disagree to an extent also.

I'll give an example.
I was in a church once where a visiting minister told us of a vision the Lord gave him... in which he saw a church as a mountain with ice frozen at the top.. the sun rose up and melted the ice... the frozen ice became a trickle, then a small stream going down the mountain, making its way around various huge rocks, and becoming a bigger stream the more it continued.. then a became a sizable river and kept flowing until it flowed into the sea. Then his vision ended. The minister said the stream/river in the vision was the church he was speaking in. It was a blessing to hear that, the meaning was clear to all and all of us hearing it discerned it to be a true word of the Lord.

Even though that "word" was concerning that particular church, other people I've told it to were blessed by hearing it , and gave glory to God. In that instance, and in a few others over the years, I've never felt like anything but good would come out of me telling it to other "outside" saints. And the reaction to sharing such messages with other saints has always been positive.

So I can agree that certainly not every message should be posted on an internet message board there are times when sharing a message from the Lord with others can be a blessing to them as well.

Fair enough.
That idea has now been officially thrown into the recycle bin.
Next!!
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