When the Messenger and Message Become One
by Dr. Dennis Kinlaw

I know a lot of people who say, yes, I know Christ, and they’ll tell me when they were converted. And their relationship with Christ is based on a past experience. But Paul says there is supposed to be a continuing every moment relationship with Him that is more intimate and more real than any other relationship in human existence. The relationship is supposed to be intimate enough that ultimately there is an identification between us and Christ where He inhabits us and we inhabit Him. There is an identification between the message I have to give and my own life and my own personhood so that I am tied up with the message that I have to offer. 

You know I believe the church today, the body of Christ, is hungering for that kind of message. They don’t understand it, you can’t force it on anybody, you can’t pound it into people. They’ve got to begin to see their own needs and say, “Is there greater freedom than I have known?” And if we present it, there are people who are hungering to be free. And you and I know what the key is. It is to get in that triumphal procession that leads us to the end of us and to the beginning of Him and His fullness.