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I bought the cd's of John Perkin's morning Bible Studies at the CCDA conference in Chicago so that I might re-listen to them. Only Dr. Perkins can get away with things like a 25 minute introduction or a number of diversions from the main theme of his talk. He speaks with such spiritual authority that he can divert as often as he likes and still keep an audience rapt with attention. Anyway, two things he repeated several times this year in his speaking-

1. The will of God is everything. The will of God is good for everybody, for all of society. He admonishes us to listen in prayer and to be in the Word so that we might know the will of God and obey His will. He confronts the Church today with the hard truth that many are just seeking God to bless them as they do their own will on earth.

2. The Christian life is to be a continuation of the life of Christ on earth. The Church is to be his body, his hands, his feet, his love, his voice on the earth. Christ's life lived through us doing Christ's redemptive work on earth.

If you want to listen to John Perkins, you can go to www.ccda.org and find some of his Bible studies from past conferences to download. He's a modern day prophet and a man whom God has made into a great leader.