Knowing Christ in a Profound Way (DCLC – July ’87, Part 1)

Gene, you were being negative. That’s right, but I was also being historical. I was also being scriptural whether you’ve noticed or not. And I intend to help you and the others; help you find some new handles to experience the Lord. Hopefully, and it’s a short week, you will have the opportunity to function. And oh, please don’t get up and say, “My name’s so and so, and I got saved on such and such a day, and I’m really low. I just really feel bad these days, and y’all pray for me.”

I hope that when you come to share, it will be out of a personal living experience with the Lord, even if it’s really small, really small; nonetheless, it will be there. Share Him. He is, has been, and forever will be the center of our faith. He is the center of our faith, and you have a right to walk with Him daily. You have a right to get together and share Him. And that’s what the conference on the deeper Christian life is about, and all these other things I said, it’s not about those, but I vented my frustrations because I really feel, it’s just a personal conviction of mine, I really feel that a lot of that, if not most of it, and probably all of it, in fact, every bit of it is standing in the way of our knowing the Lord well and the church of Jesus Christ being a rich and living fellowship.

Now, when you go back home, you go back to your New Testament building, New Testament pews, New Testament pulpit, New Testament choir, and New Testament seminary, and I didn’t do that deliberately; that just happened, seminary-trained pastor, and your New Testament Sunday school. But brother, when you do, I trust you’ll be able to leave here with a little bit more of a way and ways to know the Lord Jesus Christ. I want to thank you so much for giving me. I needed to do this before I started speaking, because if I didn’t, if I hadn’t done it, it’s going to spill out all week long. Little-bitty dribbles. I really came in here today with a heavy and frustrated heart.