My Buddy Hank

AUTHOR'S NOTE: It is 4:30 and I am vey, very tired and not thinking clearly... please have grace!
Ok, so I dropped my last blog and remembered I wanted to write about something significant. Hank, the "Bible Answer Man" Hanegraaff. The name says it all, doesn't it? What a mark of intelligence on our part to bestow or even condone such a name upon a man. And not to mention His own humility! What a burden... THE Bible answer man!
There is a grossness to me about the false masculine that runs our Church today. I mean a sick gross feeling I get when I think of how clinical and over intellectual we have become and how few people ever seem to think it wrong. Emotions and experience have all taken a back seat becuase they kept trying to drive and no one thought they would get us anywhere. But are our intellects flawless? Men, we are unhealthy. We are full of ourselves and hold the blessing until we are satisfied to give it to our children, and that day often never comes because the real reason we withold it is fear. Dare I say cowardice. We hide behind intellect because we fear our emotion. We write it off as Godly, because it is more easily controlled. Yet our children and wives cry in the shadows because of our tyranny. We rule with an iron fist and a stone heart. We break the spirits of our children and force them to do the same to theirs simply because they don't know better... they only know theology.

Such irony.

Counterfeit revival? How about COUNTERFIET EQUIPPING? That's right... you read it. Why? I'll tell you why, because any Christian Church, teaching, ministry or the like that allows people to consider being mentally educated the equivilent of being spiritually whole is guilty of a "form of godliness but denying it's power". Was it the "Spirit of Education" that fell in the book of Acts? What I mean is that we can be so stupid, we will actually think it right and holy to judge a person's spirituality on how much they know, not WHO they know. We think head-knowledge is gifting. Well, the heart learns, too my friends. It takes two wings to fly and a lot of believers don't even know they are still on the ground. In fact, the healthy ones who have been changed by intense suffering and revelation from God, whose gifting, like Paul says, is evident in people not certificates, often go unrecognized (even scrutinized). Why? Maybe because we are not accustomed to the blood of Christ actually showing itself in any healthy way other than socio-economically, financially (oh, for the "word of faith people", let's call all that "prosperity") or intellectually. No, that is too great a price. No one looks THAT deep. Not now. Not in America. Why bother? Pay "Pastor Bastor" to do that for us! And Hank, my friend... you may be a msart cookie, but we need to talk about WHY people are falling for the counterfiet revivals... what are they missing that even YOUR show can't give them? We all need to look one level deeper... WHY do we do the things we do? Paul brings up that great question in Romans, but who gets the answer?

Psalm 25:14
The LORD confides in those who fear him; he makes his covenant known to them.

Now, what is the Fear of God? Because the one who knows THAT kind of fear will know God's secrets... maybe even His plans. And the beauty of that is, the ones who are told these things are told only because they are considered by God safe enough not to exploit it; and the ones who would exploit it will most likely never be told. :)

Ok, so God bless you Hank; you must know better.