I see that end product as 3,000 added to the church. That’s what happened in the Bible. Can you imagine after today and this weekend what is going to happen? Can we really raise our imaginations to that level? How many people will be added to the church and be troubled in their mind? How many people will be saved because we decided to do something like this, we had an unction from the Holy Spirit and moved on it.
CT: The whole concept of this is the church has left the building.
NR: Yup, that’s exactly what’s happened!
CT: Do you think this concept is the way forward for Christianity to flourish?
NR: My understanding of theology is that the church is the ambassador of Christ. It is the body of Christ. I was just listening to a teaching on the whole thing and the Spirit of God needs a body to operate in. We often thought the church and its four walls were the answer. But it goes another step deeper where people who are imbued with power and revelation and their place in society actually leave the safe haven of the local church and actually step out and show their faith and talk about their faith and allow others into their world. I believe that Pentecost model is kind of key.
This is not a time where we speak about the black church or the white church or the Asian church or the Pentecostals or Charismatics or Anglicans or Methodists. This is the time when the denominational walls come down and we’ve got to major on the major – which is Christ – and stop moaning on the minors, like ‘well we don’t do that kind of worship’, ‘oh I don’t like all that noise’, ‘oh we don’t do that’. My argument is that heaven is an incredible place. None of us can really perceive it because the Bible says that we are going to have a new body so our perceptions of heaven even from a humanistic point of view, it is really difficult.
