What is true anointing?
Recently, I had the privilege of being in two very different places, in two very different settings, and yet both left a deep impression on me. The first was a church in the United States. It was a wonderful church, but the worship was very different from what I have often experienced in Pentecostal and charismatic settings. They sang traditional hymns and songs. There was no shouting or screaming. There were no tongues or prophetic utterances. There was very little outward expression. People were not necessarily lifting their hands or displaying intense emotion. And yet, as I got to know the people, I discovered something that deeply challenged me. Almost every family in that church was involved in missions. Some had sent missionaries from their own families. Others were faithfully supporting missionaries around the world. Their commitment to the Great Commission was not simply something they talked about from the pulpit. It was woven into the way they lived. Then I had another experi...
