Here are some of Shane’s thoughts on Jill Briscoe’s second to last session:

Symbol- Dry Bones Ezk 37

Ø  He (God) does not call the equipped, He equips the called.

Ø  We have dry bones (lost people) every where and they are useless.

Ø  When vision, passion, mission leave you, you dry up.

Ø  The call is discipleship, the call is any time, any place, any where.

Ø  Dry disciples are brittle. They no longer have a backbone . . . only have a wish bone.

Ø  When we dry up we get depressed…we lose hope…and we lose confidence…

Ø  There is more depression in America today because they have lost their hope in God. Without hope. . . we all dry up.

Ø  Want to be big. . . . .  Learn to be small

Ø  Courage is doing the right thing frightened.

Ø  Courage waits for your obedience

Ø  You don’t choose where you are going, you don’t choose what gift you will use, you are just obedient. 

Jill touched on a few different things like dry bones or lost people and spiritually dead Christians, being a soldier of Christ, and then on obedience.   Jill said tonight that in our Christian bubbles we can find one of the hardest places to stay fresh, because we have too many spiritual substitutes. 

Jill made the statement that “it’s easier to be friends with Jesus’ friends than with Him…and it doesn’t matter how holy the substitute is. . . . .  it’s not God!” there are so many people out there that don’t know Christ and I thought it was interesting how Jill put spiritually dead Christians in the same category  with  unbelievers. . . . .really. . . . .  what’s the difference???

It takes courage when following God and the Spirit.  Jill told a story about when she felt the Lord calling her to go into this place where a big concert was being held and tell the people about God. She said that first she wanted to pray for courage and as she prayed she said that she still didn’t have courage so the first night she didn’t go in, but she knew that she would have to come back the next night. So she did and she began to do the same thing pray for courage, but as she was praying, she still did not feel courage,  but she heard God asking her  “will you go in for me, WITHOUT  the courage?”  - – - Are we willing to be Bold for Christ and go into places when we don’t have the courage?? are we willing to be OBEDIENT? Jill went on to say that after she had said yes and started in God gave her courage and she went on to lead a man to Christ. See. . . . .  it takes the first step from us. “Courage is doing the right thing frightened.” Take courage even when you are scared because “God does not call the equipped He equips the called.” It’s up to God and His will to show us where we are going to go and what gift we are going to use, not us. We just have to be obedient. . . . . Amen!