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To be sure,we as Believers in Jesus Christ have the obligation and personal responsibility to share our testimony, 1 Peter 3:15, and the Gospel, the good news that Jesus is the Messiah and the reality of the Kingdom of God, As recorded in Luke 4:18, we believers are to proclaim the good news to the poor, proclaim freedom for the prisoners, heal the blind, and set the oppressed free. As Jesus did in Mark 1:15, we are most certainly expected to call sinners to repent of their sins.
In accordance with 1 John 4:8, we are to love lost people, lost sinners.
Matthew 28:16-20 identifies our highest priority: to worship the Lord. These scriptures summarize Jesus’ priorities: making disciples, baptizing them, and teaching them the Word of God.
From the Word of God, I see our second highest priority is making disciples.
If you mention 2 Chronicles 7:14 to church-going Christians, the majority recognize the promises right away. When speaking with individual believers who recognize this verse, some have memorized it, I ask a series of questions:
- Who spoke those words? [God]
- To whom were the words spoken? [King Solomon]
- What was the occasion? [ordination of the Temple]
- What does the preceding verse 13 say? [my paraphrase: when your world goes to hell]
The above is important to my fellow believers to know because we are on the threshold of experiencing verse 13, as inflation, loss of energy independence, open borders, climate alarmism, recession, and unconstitutional acts of government erode our God-given, constitutionally-protected natural rights.
You may be familiar with the Tytler Cycle of Democracies posited by Alexander Fraser Tytler, Scotsman, scholar, lawyer, judge, university professor, and a Believer in Jesus Christ.
From reddit.com:
“In the late 1700s, the unavoidable cycle of governments and civilizations rising and falling was outlined in a theory called the Tytler Cycle. Different parts of society are in different stages, but everything always moves the same direction.”
I see our nation in cycle ‘C’, approaching the threshold of cycle ‘D’. Low voter turnout in the last election and the one-cycle terms of conservative lawmakers like Myra Flores (R-McAllen) indicate voter apathy.
Cycle ‘D’ of the Tytler Cycle is the national condition we are swiftly approaching, as described in 2 Chronicles 7:13.
Meanwhile, Satan is most certainly operating through the communists, the atheists, and the LGBTQ activists to destroy our Republic.
Is Revival Underway? It will be, and soon. Getting there means a lot of personal discomfort.
John White
John N. White 
love isn’t what christians do. Their delusion that anyone who disagrees with them will be tortured eternally has nothing to do with love.
as usual, christians have “revivals” and they always fail, leading to more and more splintering since the promises made during revivals always fail.
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qui non diligit non novit Deum quoniam Deus caritas est.
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nothing more than another false claim by a christian.
“he who does not love does not know God, since God is charity.”
Happily, no one needs your god or you, John, to love. And plenty of Christians don’t know what love is if they think that fantasizing that anyone who doesn’t agree with them deserves eternal torture is okay.
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You need Jesus, Vel.
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which jesus, John? You christians have so many versions. Surely you know which one is the right one, yes? And you can show how you know it’s the right one?
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Gee, Vel, I am only aware of one version, the One we celebrate each Passover season, the One who sacrificed Himself to atone for the sins of all mankind, to those who receive Him as their personal Lord and Savior.
If you know others, please share them with me.
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Unsurprisingly, John, each christian has their own jesus created in their image. We have the jesus of the catholics, the jesus of the protestants, etc.
Jesus: free will or predestination?
Jesus: which version of hell does jesus support out of all of the ones offered by christians?
Jesus: which parts of the bible are to be taken as literal, metaphor, exaggeration?
Jesus: which morals does this fellow want?
Is Jesus a post-tribber? A pre-tribber? A millenialist? An amillenialist?
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Some folks become followers of Jesus Christ, the “I am the way, the truth, and the life” (John 14:6) through their Bible studies and/or Bible lessons in church meetings.
Then there are the hard cases like the Apostle Paul, John White, and you, Vel.
I became a believer in Jesus Christ through a personal encounter, a personal revelation. When we learn through revelations, that knowledge is like an immovable rock.
Of all of Jesus disciples, Peter was the only one that experienced a supernatural revelation of Jesus Christ. You can read about Peter’s revelation in Matthew 16:13-18.
The common translations of the original Greek text don’t communicate well the meaning of the words (yes, plural) for rock. In the Greek text, Jesus called him Petros, a small stone, a pebble. The rock, petra, upon which Jesus said he will build his ecclesia (called-out ones), church, is the big rock in a rock formation referring to a personal revelation.
I hope you will have a petra, a personal revelation. There is nothing to compare with it.
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Lots of folks become followers of jesus, in all different versions of Christianity. Unfortunately, not one sect can show it is any better than the next, nor show that this god exists at all.
I was a Christian, even taught bible studies, and then I realized this was all nonsense, no better than the next religion. That’s what happens when you have no evidence for your claims.
Lots of people claim personal revelation, in lots of different religions and versions of Christianity. And yep, you believe in your claims. That doesn’t make them true. That a Muslim is as certain as you means nothing, John
Peter’s revelation was jus a story, John. And there is nothing supernatural about it at all. That jesus was the messiah was repeated all through the book of Matthew, and gee, John the Baptist claims it in chapter 11. Do you want to claim that no one heard this story until you want to claim somehow Peter magically guessed it? That doesn’t work with what the book says.
Funny how I was a Christian and when losing my faith, I prayed for help.
Unsurprisingly, nothing happened, just like your claim of a “personal revelation”.
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Have you thought you may never have been an actual believer in Jesus Christ, Vel?
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“Have you thought you may never have been an actual believer in Jesus Christ, Vel?”
John, that’s a common claim from Christians who are terrified of knowing that people can leave their cult even if they believed whole-heartedly.
Christians have a problem in that they can’t show that they are an “actual believer in Jesus Christ”, other than simply making the claim they are a christian, which all of you do. Per the bible, it should be simple to see who are the real true believers, with jesus’ promise that those people will get *any* prayer answered, without exception or excuse, and answered quickly (Mark 11, John 14, etc). They will also be able to heal people, etc, as we see in various places in the bible, James 5, Mark 16,etc.
that no self-proclaimed christian, including you and me when I was a christian, can do these things, it seems that all christians are frauds.
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