Originally Posted by
fuego
He actually teaches something in that book that I taught for years before I read that book. He approaches it a little different than I do. He's actually more thorough in how he teaches it than I was, but uses a lot of the same verses etc.
It had to do with Jesus is not in heaven praying for us and doesn't say He is. It's really a misinterpretation of the verses people use to say He is. The fact He isn't is really a much more powerful revelation than teaching Jesus is actually in heaven praying for us. Which actually can produce a lot of false doctrine if you think about it.
Also that chapter on 'Re-presenting Jesus' is really good. This is my paraphrase, but 'He is the producer, we are the distributors. We have no responsibility to produce, just to distribute.' If believers could get that through their head it would relieve a lot of anxiety of 're-presenting' Jesus. The Spirit showed that to me through a verse Dutch doesn't use in his chapter though (I don't think). It's the one where Peter said, 'not by our own power or holiness' when the lame man at the gate was healed. It was 'that name through faith in that name' that healed him. That's another good one to relieve the responsibility for 'producing' if you meditate on it. Had nothing to do with them at al other than being the vessel. Not even how they were or weren't living. We're quick to realize we don't have the power within ourselves to do anything like that. Now we need to get the revelation that it's not by our own holiness either. Holiness isn't the key to distributing for God. Faith is. That alleviated the guilt and excuse that God won't lose you just because you aren't perfect.