Of God, Gifts and Men Volume 3 - Dr Douglas E Carr - Bog

One can easily mourn the current condition of the institution the world calls "the church." We live in a season of great division, and as Abraham Lincoln quoted from the teaching of Jesus, "a house divided against itself cannot stand." Sin abounds in the church! Jesus came to save and transform addicts, fornicators, and murderers. He came to set captives free, not to make them comfortable continuing within the bonds of their captivity. The New Testament abounds with thoughts of Jesus coming back for a bride (His Church) who is radiant, without stain or wrinkle or any other blemish but holy and blameless. If Jesus were to return today, He might find a remnant like that, but I wonder how many church-going people might be left behind because they have not been prepared by apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors and teachers to be built up in unity of faith until we all reach the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ. I am excited as I write this book. The Lord has shown me three major truths of the Coming Great Awakening which He calls His Church to. First is the unfulfilled mandate given to humans when Adam and Eve were told to exercise dominion over the earth. Second is restoration of that mandate through the Great Commission. Third is God's equipping through the ascension gifts outlined in Ephesians Chapter Four. If and when Believers put these three truths together in action, the Great Awakening will be upon us and God's mandate to mankind will finally be fulfilled as the children of God manifest.