JOEL 2 GENERATION

just yesterday I was reminded of a penetrating passage that for years I was sure didn't apply to me/us.  It is the one in John 10:37 "If I do not do the  works   of   My   Father , do not believe Me" (NKJV) Can you imagine if we really believed this verse?  and that it just might apply to us?   How crazy huh?  let's just walk through your next evangelistic encounter with a skeptic.  They start to throw at you objections - hypocrisy amongst Christians, evil in the world, arguments from science, etc.  Then you just say, "Stop!  I don't want to discuss these issues.  I am on assignment and the Kingdom of God is within me, in fact the very Spirit of God dwells inside of me.  So, I don't want you to believe anything I would tell you about Jesus and His Gospel unless I first do the same miracles that Jesus did" First of all, I think this approach would actually save many of us a lot of headaches.  Nobody likes debates and if we are honest, they

strange title I know.  a group of us were meditating on Romans 6 and Paul tells us there that we are dead to sin (v. 2) and that we died "with Christ" (v. 6).  I think that many of the problems that I have relate directly to me not living out of the reality of what Paul is teaching.  If I am dead to sin and alive to God, manifesting the life of Christ, then most of the struggles simply evaporate.  Simple.  If only I BELIEVED it more often!