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Invitational Accomplishment

Information without application results in inoculation. We are informed beyond our level of obedience in the church today. In Hebrew teaching you had to go and act upon the information given and show that you were accomplished in the learning before you could receive anymore teaching. Today we are stuffed with information. I am so […]

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Invitation challenges our blind spot

In my seminars we talk about unknown unknowns. In other words the blind spots in our lives. At times those blind spots are across the whole church in a generation. This is why God has from time to time has to send his prophets to challenge the mutual pooling of ignorance. There is I believe […]

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The Big Ask

The ‘ask’ is a big production i.e. asking someone to marry you. Nowadays some young men wanting to propose to their girlfriends put together a elaborate sequence of events. They have crew, location and actors are recruited, normally the friends of the couple who are sworn to secrecy to keep the girlfriend in the dark. […]

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Invitational Pressure

When you are under pressure what comes out of you reveals what’s already in you The immaturity is squeezed out of you like toothpaste. Fear of inviting someone is one aspect of the insecurity we feel, and the sudden pressure brought on by the possibility of an invite reveals the fear within. Invite someone today […]

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Invitational Road Block

There is a point in my seminars when I show how we might be locking down what God wants to do. When it becomes personal it changes the whole dynamic. We all sit there nodding in agreement that people in general might be road-blocking God.  People start thinking I wish so and so was here to listen […]

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Invitation a long term project

I recently met one of Australia’s finest exponents of serial inviting. This serial inviter commented about a person they were regularly inviting “They are a 10 year project or that other person is a 15 year project!” What they mean is that it is going to take 10 or 15 years for them to accept […]

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Spirit propelled Invitation

The gospel writer Luke confirms that the Holy Spirit propels Jesus for a trial in the wilderness. It seems strange that a trial is best for God’s son at this point. We all agree that trials are important as long as it is someone else facing one. People find it strange that when prompted by God to invite […]

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