At our annual conference's fifty-year anniversary I gave a retrospective on things I have learned at the conference.
Here are some quotes, from some of our past speakers.
Jack Hayford - 1992
“Doors don’t open for the interfacing of the body of Christ until there comes love for the body of Christ.
“The essence of renewal is not the power of the HS. It is the voice of the HS, and responding to it.”
“Teach your people how to respond to the culture non-cynically as healers of that culture.”
“Fears are always liars. They are always prompted by some spirit.”
"You would worry less about what people think of you if you realized how little they do."
Dean Sherman - 1999
“If you want to work with Jesus, build church. If you want to work against Jesus, tear the church down.”
John Dawson - 1998
“In the absence of the glory, there is an inrush of the demonic.”
Donna Hailson - 2005
“Church is not measured by its attendance but by its deployment.”
Dan Fountsin
"Christianity is the only caring culture in the world.
Hinduism is
not caring.
Buddhism is
not caring.
Grant Mullen
“Comparison is the rocket fuel of shame.”
Islam is not
caring."
J. P. Moreland
“The American people are intoxicated with wanting ‘happiness’.
The emphasis on happiness is not working. Cf. Martin Seligman
The paradox of hedonism is: You won’t be happy by trying to be
happy.
Happiness is a wonderful byproduct but a terrible goal of
life."
Jo McIntyre
"Pray with apostolic authority."
Randy Clark - 2010
“Most of the time when I pray for people to be healed I feel nothing.”
“My faith isn’t in my performance. It’s in God’s Word and what God has told me, not in my performance.”
Rachel Hickson.
“It’s not about how you feel. It’s about how you are connected.”
Bill Johnson
"Prophetic ministry is not to be focused on
the sins of the world. It takes very little discernment to find the dirt in
people’s lives. The prophetic in its purest form is designed to find the gold
in people’s lives and call it to the surface."
Greg Boyd - 2005
“The Kingdom of God always looks like Jesus. Everything
hangs on this.”
Leif Hetland - 2013
“The coming move of God is going to be nameless and
faceless.”
Leif’s life verse is John 17:26 - I have made you known to
them, and will continue to make you known in order that the love you have
for me may be in them and that I myself may be in them.”
Francis McNutt - 2001
“I can’t measure my success as a minister of the gospel by what people think of me.”
J.P. Moreland – "McNutt’s book on healing is the best book on the subject ever written."
The great theologian John Wayne -
"Courage is being afraid but saddling up anyway."
