Hi can you suggest me how can i promote our church, I feel i should do more to reach out many and help people seeing a spirit-filled church in Victoria.

church details on the website:http://www.handofgodchurch.org

God bless you all

I dont believe you have a birth right to spread superstition. You have not offered absolute proof of god so what exactly is your motives then considering you are the one speaking as/for god?

Dear Moses.

I don't think you need to 'promote' your church.
but there are a number of points which should be considered.

1/ I note you are requesting donations/assistance.
You should also indicate that you have an independant body, preferably an accountant who will make an annual report indicating all receipts and expenditures. All financian reports should be backed up with a bank statement.

2/ Healing. Our Lord never 'promoted' himself or had 'healing' meetings as such. He preached the Gospel,... and healed. We should never repeat never, advertise a 'healing' meeting. It should always be 'Gospel' or something like that. If, in the context of such a meeting, an opportunity is given for those wanted prayer for sickness, then thats ok.

3/ If such a meeting is held, it should be structured NOT to glorify any healing, but to Glorify our Lord and the Salvation found in Him.

4/ NEVER hold a healing meeting, where an offering/collection is done like Benny Hinz. I've seen him... talk so much about what God is going to do, then build people up... build up.. THEN.. announce a collection, even to the point of providing CREDIT card opportunities.
He dangles the possibility of healing over people, who are then asked to 'give' and THEN they are prayed for.

A Spirit filled church will grow by personal witness of its members who are faithful to that which Paul said in 1Corinthians 15:1-4 as your web site shows.
cheers in Him.

HandofGod, much as it pains me I've got to agree with BD in his comments. (sob, sob, sob).

I'd add that when I see a church advertising itself as "Spirit Filled" I tend to think the exact opposite - the worst churches I've seen are the ones most likely to hang that kind of tag off themselves.

If you actually are spirit filled a sign on your church won't convince people, your integrity honesty and love will be what does if anything. You and your people need to show by your lives that you have something that the rest of us don't.

You could also spend some time around other threads using the "HandOfGod" tag rebukking BD for some of his more hateful posts (or let the spirit tell you where he lives and go visit him), he's in Victoria I think so it should not be far.

R0bert

To promote a god you have no proof of is simply morally wrong. Obviously if you have no actual proof of a god all you are misrepresenting fiction such as the Bible as reality based which is to con, mislead people in order to gain power over them. If a god wishes to speak let him do so , to quote occult literature such as the Bible as if it is anything other than a fairytale is making the claim that you yourself are god because you are the one speaking as God.

You desire to sell the word spirit. What exactly is spirit that you are an expert of? The problem that I see with using the commercial slogan "spirit filled church" is that to seek to convert peoples to a belief with no proof of god is immoral and a terrible thing to do because what is achieved is the manipulation of the delicate minded. Spirit is a phantasm of superstitious occult magic. Only those who are of delicate mind and of low intellectual capacity , that is only those who are psychologically vulnerable will be conned into believing in the superstition occult of spirit.

To advertise a spirit filled church is really targeting people who need psychiatric help which is dangerous as we have witnessed by Churches up until 2006.The very same people who will be conned buy the occult belief in god are worst of not only because of the negative nature of Christianity but also because they too are victims of those who lead in the name of god who seek converts to believe in occult magic such as Jesus and prayer and other so they can be money farmed.

And if you do decide to hang around you'll have to get used to Westy's comments. Westy has much more that he wants to share with you. There have been theories about what it would take to hate Christianity that much but he hasn't owned up to anything so we don't know why.