Hail Him the Lord of Years, and Lord of many revivals 3

Every so often I pepper my blog with stories about the years my husband, Brad, and I experienced the Jesus Movement at a church called Warehouse Ministries. But the movement was all around us not just at our church. The Holy Spirit was simply moving in so many lives all at once bringing them to Jesus Christ. That is the truest sense of revival.

As I worked in Apologetics at the church I was joined by several interesting people. One woman I worked with had come to Christ from witchcraft. She told us how she had been taught that when you cast a circle if anything bad happens in the circle to call on the name of Jesus. A few explanations are in order.

First casting a circle is what most witches do in order to perform their rituals. They almost always work in a circle. If you want to read about those who practice witchcraft or worship a goddess go here Wicca: Searching For Identity, Meaning and Community In The Lonely Shadows of Witchcraft and Goddess Spirituality.

Secondly I have never heard of a witch being told to call on Jesus in a time of trouble. However, Witches often practice syncretism with their rites and beliefs. That is they tend to incorporate different gods and goddesses into their belief system.

But this was what my friend had been told and one day she cast a circle and a demon appeared. Now this also needs an explanation; Witches do not believe there are demons or that Satan exists. They simply believe in a nature goddess and sometimes a god. Often all of creation is the goddess so it is a form of pantheism. Nonetheless a demon made an appearance in her circle and she called on Jesus. The demon left and slowly with other events she became a Christian, God works in wondrous ways.

Her sister was a prostitute who Jesus also drew into his safe keeping. And as I have said the Holy Spirit was working everywhere.

One young woman who eventually made her way to our church was a Jehovah Witness. She managed to do something a Witness is not suppose to do, she kept going from house to house after her companion had gone home. The last door she knocked on was that of four Christian young men. They laid out their various Bible translations and showed her that her New World Translation was faulty, to say the least.

They concentrated on John 1:1, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” The Jehovah Witness translation, which was not done by a Greek scholar, states “the Word was a God,”rather than was God. With that small beginning, by the help of the Holy Spirit, the young woman became a Christian.

It is extremely important when talking with a Jehovah Witness to insist on talking about who Jesus Christ is and what grace is. They, the Jehovah Witnesses would rather talk about who the 144,000 people are in the book of Revelation.

I have stated that we had Saturday night rock and folk concerts. Among those musicians who came were two from England, Malcolm & Alwyn. The pictures that have been put with the music are a little dated but they do fit very well. So here is “The World Needs Jesus.”