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I told some students that I would post my notes from my workshop at winter camp titled “Manifestations of the power of God.”

Manifestations of the Holy Spirit
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I am a coffee lover. I admit it. I love the taste of coffee. More importantly, I love the small “buzz” I get from it. Am I addicted to coffee? Probably. I get headaches if I don’t have at least one cup a day. I frequent a local Starbucks regularly to get my fix. I don’t drink the decaf stuff, unless I want to be only slightly “moved” (decaf still has caffeine, just not as much).

A very dear friend of mine got me thinking about coffee from a new perspective: Christianity. We as Christians are not unlike coffee. Some people like it, some don’t. Some people like us, some don’t. Coffee has a very distinct flavor. It’s usually noticed right away. So is Christianity. There is an aroma to coffee. There is an aroma to Christians.
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When I moved to Brentwood to be a part of Innerface, a generous family in our church opened up their home to me. It was a new transition for me, being out on my own as it were. I had to adjust, as did the family. Dinner was at a certain time, and if I missed that time for whatever reason, I was on my own. I was used to doing laundry whenever I needed to, and now I had to squeeze it in when no one was home or try and get my clothes in before someone else in the house did. The bathroom that I use is the public house bathroom, so I have to keep it “user friendly” in case of visitors. I heard conversations that visitors didn’t hear.
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So tonight, I led The Uprising, Innerface’s college group. For a while, I wasn’t sure what I was going to talk about, then as I prayed and looked through my resources, I came across a book that I haven’t read in a while, “Whatever Happened to the Power of God?” by Dr. Michael L. Brown. The book talks about a lot of different things pertaining to why we don’t see a move of God like the book of Acts or even like we did 100 years ago.
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This is part 2 of the Best Question Ever, a discussion that I led for The Uprising, our college ministry at our church. I opened part 1 with the idea that many of us have made huge mistakes, and after looking back, wonder how we got there. We discovered that we are masters at self-deception, and can easily talk ourselves into doing something that we know is not good for us. We walked through the 4 questions that we TYPICALLY ask when facing a decision instead of the Best Question Ever.
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