Steve Witt - Get Outside of the Camp - Oct 11, 2009
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Steve Witt was our guest speaker on October 11. Steve is the pastor at Metro Church South in Cleveland, OH. He was also a speaker for Dale Carnegie Institute for over 9 years. Steve was in Winston Salem for the whole weekend to help us “Map our Destiny”, which goes along with our theme for October, “Identifying Your Calling.”
His message revolved around “Getting Outside of the Camp”, which refers to Hebrews 13:10-16 and also the Day of Atonement. He spoke of Christians should be willing to get out of their comfort zone and OUT of the mainstream. In the Old Testament, “outside of the camp” usually dealt with rejection (i.e. lepers were sent “outside of the camp”). He also gave an illustration that today’s Western Christianity is much like the flu shot. When you receive a flu shot, it has just enough of the dead virus to make your immune system become aware. So, when the real virus attacks your body, your immune system rejects the virus. Much like most Christians have just enough of God, that when a real move of the Holy Spirit comes in, they reject it because it’s different or they don’t understand it.
Steve also taught on Luke 5 where Jesus told Peter to take their boat out into the deep. Most of you know the story. Peter told Jesus “we’ve already been out there fishing all night and caught nothing.” He was basically telling Jesus to stick to being a carpenter b/c he knew nothing about fishing. But Peter was willing to take a little risk and go deeper. Sometimes when God calls us to do something, he calls us to get in over our heads. Of course the fisherman brought in a haul so big, the nets started ripping and they had to call in other boats to help with the catch. When you know the heart of the Father, you know that Daddy will make you come out better than when you started. You can take some risks and trust God to meet you there. Steve explained this as a picture of revival, and wouldn’t it be awesome to see such a move of God, that the revialists would have to call in other ministries to help with the revival.
Listen and enjoy!
