I was super challenged (again) today as I was reading “When Heaven Invades Earth” by Bill Johnson. He was talking about how in the church we have become comfortable teaching about Jesus and the Holy Spirit but have become uncomfortable with ever practising what He did when it comes to signs and wonders. Bill’s challenge to the reader was around how we have accepted this when it leaves out a huge chunk of who Jesus was.

Should we be content with hearing content without power?

There is no doubt there has been much harm done by leaders in the pursuit of signs and wonders. They have often left sound theology behind and turned them into something that Jesus never intended, leaving many hurt in the process. This naturally resulted in the wider church protecting itself from these misuses. Unfortunately how we chose to do that was to pull back from the supernatural altogether and we instead chose to reply on good biblical teaching alone rather than ‘doing the stuff.’

I guess the question we might like to pose is……..’Is that not just as unbiblical?’

We know that signs and wonders without biblical grounding and theological mooring can be dangerous but surely it’s just as dangerous to be biblical grounded and theologically moored without doing anything with it.

We can’t be power pursuers alone, but we can’t equally be content with content alone. They were meant to walk hand in hand, feeding and informing one another, leading us towards Jesus and all that He has for us.