Veggie tales, for grown ups (Part 1)

Eating our veggies (Part 1).  Maybe i should call this Veggie tales, for grown ups.

(Might do a few of these).

One of the first books I read on the prophetic was Growing in the Prophetic, by Mike Bickle (and Michael Sullivant).

 Mike was pastoring a church at the time -he was not a prophet - in Kansas city.

  He had some very gifted prophetic people in his church. The ‘Kansas city prophets’ became well known (and made some mistakes as well).

  At first Mike was kind of intimidated by them. After all, he was not prophetic like them, could barely move in personal prophecy, and he had people like Bob Jones floating around (Bob would do things like tell people the dreams or visions they had had, and then interpret them). So for a season he hesitated to bring correction to them, even though he was the pastor.

 Things came to a head one Sunday. Some bad behavior among the prophetic ones was on show. They had ‘dueling prophets’ in the service – trying to outdo each other with huge prophetic words. It was competitive and immature and everyone could see it

 Afterwards a line of 10 people came up to him – when are you going to sort this out?

 He started to realize he, prophetic or not, had the grace to pastor and administer and lead these people.

  The book reads like a manual of war stories, partly exciting prophetic stories, partly a manual of things to not do. Definitely worth a read.

  Another time - or maybe this same time - a couple of them got offended, and decided to leave the church. They also announced that all of the promises and blessing God had used them to help release and declare, would now be retracted.

He felt that was ridiculous, and he stopped being so intimidated. Later one or maybe both apologized and came back and were able to function in a more healthy way.

Prophetic people need the local church, with all of its challenges and frustrations, and its other forms of leadership. Prophetic people need pastors, and leaders –the full mix, with apostles and teachers and evangelists.

(part 2: growing in the prophetic in a cautious Anglican church)