Wednesday Session 1 - Sunday Adelaja - The Power of the Local Church
Awesome session! Pastor Sunday’s preaching appeals to me. He is both strategic and theological as well as being funny and unconventional. He was preaching on PS 110:1-2, remarking on the fact that Jesus is seated and the instrument of God’s dominion is the local church (=Zion).
The meeting started with pastor Sunday prophetically praying for various people in the meeting for various sicknesses, asking them to lay hands on themselves. He then did something I haven’t seen him do before by asking specifically for people who needed prayer for deliverance from drug addiction to come to the front so he could pray for them. Usually he prays from the front for people where they are seated. 2 people came forward for prayer, very brave on their part in a gathering of mostly committed Christians. I knew one of them and talking to them afterwards God is doing some amazing stuff in their life.
Pastor Sunday then preached an amazing message on the local church as God’s instrument of power by drawing biblical parallels with the concept of Mount Zion. As mountains are elevated places, meant to be seen so is the church meant to be seen by the world as the place where God lives. If our perception as Christians is that it is simply a meeting place then our perception limits what God can do through the church, his chosen instrument. The church is God’s total answer for the world, we just need to realize that.
Pastor Sunday then went on to point out from 1 Tim 3:15 about how the church is there to establish God’s truth in our society and our nation. He pointed out how society wants the church to be silent and non-controversial but how the church, as God’s answer to society, should be leading in every aspect of societal life. Preachers, he said, should be heroes in our society and not just in their own pulpit.
Amazing session, I’m going to have to watch the DVD a few times.
