By Stuart Briscoe
A flowing circulation cuts its personal channel. ---Major W. Ian Thomas, founding father of Torchbearers overseas during the last sixty years, Stuart Briscoe's lifestyles circulate has lower a really deep channel. hundreds of thousands of sermons preached. millions of airline miles flown. Seven continents visited. millions of church individuals further and 8 church buildings planted. greater than 40 books authored. a life of touching his viewers with plainspoken, available Bible instructing. Now Briscoe seems again over his years to percentage his amassed knowledge, with the purpose that each existence matters---and all people has an important half to play within the grand cosmic movement of the Spirit. With a name in-built the 20 th century, Stuart Briscoe has a clean, shiny message for twenty-first-century Christians. it's a imaginative and prescient of what one individual may be and do, what God can name a unmarried individual to complete in his identify. Flowing Streams is sage. it truly is poignant. it's Stuart Briscoe's legacy.
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Then, of course, the colours were replaced either with the white flag of surrender or the colours of the conquering sovereign. ” “You must show your fellow marines right away whose you are and whom you serve, Stuart,” my military hero explained forcefully. Too forcefully for my liking. ” I asked timidly. “Yes, I did,” he replied. ” I ventured. “They threw boots at me,” he replied casually, as if this were an everyday occurrence. ” I queried, hardly daring to ask. ” As far as I can remember, we didn’t have mentors in those days.
My parents were not at all happy that their immature seventeen-year-old was setting out in the big cold world. So they arranged for me to live with their acquaintances Neil and Annie Taylor who attended the local Brethren assembly — which I was delighted to discover did not meet in a tin chapel. I was even more delighted to find there were young people my age in the congregation, and I gladly joined in their activities. ” “Seventeen,” I answered timidly. ” he replied to my amazement. ” Incidentally, this question has stayed with me over the years — and I have asked it a thousand times, for I believe the world in general and the church in particular is filled with people who are happily convinced that they cannot do what they have never attempted.
At Capernwray we followed all these practices. But we didn’t reflect on the dying of Jesus without it leading naturally to a powerful, thoroughly biblical emphasis on the resurrection of Jesus. And the emphasis went further and taught us that the risen Christ really was alive and had taken up residence in the hearts of the redeemed in order to carry on his ancient work in us and through us. So with great expectation that God would keep his promise to honour the proclamation of his Word and with the knowledge that Christ himself dwelt within us in the power of the resurrection through the Holy Spirit to take the Word home with power, who would not anticipate blessings to flow?