"To the Preacher" - The Idolatry of Intelligence, by Leonard Ravenhill

#1) We call it intelligence, God calls it pride. #2) My heart is full of Christ, not my head is full of theology! My heart is full of Christ and longs this glorious message to declare! #3) You don't need know your Bible... You don't need to know the word of God, you need to know the God of the word! #4) Where is the confrontation of the MEN OF GOD? #5) Prayer grasps eternity. It doesn't demand a colossal intellect. It doesn't demand a vast vocabulary. #6) Do you think you can find a Church on earth that fits into that pattern? #7) We are boasting about something we don't have! ...It's Theology. It's a Phrase. It's a Technique. #8) Do you know, in those revivals, never once was there an altar call? Do you know, when there's a revival you don't make an altar call? #9) Listen, there isn't a Pentecostal Church in America today! #10) There isn't a revivalist in America today... not one! #11) No mention of the pew, it's all on the pulpit. Let the priests weep... Let them rend their hearts. Let them howl. But where in God's Name do you get taught to howl in prayer? #12) If you want to know how popular a Church is, go Sunday morning. If you want to know how popular the preacher is, go Sunday night. If you want to know how popular God is, go to the prayer meeting. #13) Listen. Forget our seminaries! There's no anointing in them! #14) Do you know what you do when you go to seminary? You get a swollen head and a shrunken heart. #15) I say, if your preacher doesn't weep, you weep over the preacher! #16) Tell me this, do you have a course on weeping for them? And if they graduate, do you have a course on howling? #17) It originates in God. (Speaking of the Anointing, Gift, and Call to Preach) #18) Would like to pass your mantle on to me? No, but I'll share you some of my sackcloth... and I never hear from them again. #19) They were unlearned and ignorant men... the Holy Ghost came upon them. Not intellectuals, bishops, & presidents of colleges. #20) God's going to bypass organized religion and systems before very long... I believe that many denominations are breathing their last right now. #21) The Church has become so carnal... the glory of the Lord doesn't fill the Temple! www.TSCExposed.com www.TheChurchofWellsResponds.org www.TheChurchofWells.com