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Tonight, I’m leading The Uprising, and we have been talking about What Happened to the Power of God?. Tonight’s discussion will focus on true repentance and why we don’t do it.

After writing the discussion on repentance, a lot of things got turning in my mind. We look at repentance as this great condemning thing. We think of judgment, death, guilt, shame, etc. But that is quite the opposite of what it really is. Repentance is the door to freedom in Christ. Only the power of Christ can set us free and make us holy and wholly like Him. But we can only gain access to that power through repentance.
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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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This week, Matt and Lynn did a small group emphasis on Wednesday night’s Innerface. They broke everyone up into their respective small groups as an attempt to get new students plugged in. Over all, it was a great night and great strategy.

My part in this was to lead the college group, called “The Uprising.” For the discussion, I talked a out the Best Question Ever, and broke it into two parts, since I also will lead the usual Sunday night discussion this week as well.
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Tonight, Matt and Lynn again asked me to lead the college group, since they were just coming off of At Hell’s Gate. I talked about “Getting God’s Attention.” But I started with an interesting foundation.
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