A quickening of the spirit to believe the logos is true is rehma … i.e. The scriptures that were God-breathed and written down are logos. That is why many read the Bible but are not saved by it. Logos leads to rehma leads to faith imparted to believers. Logos" are two distinct Greek words – very precise with similar but different meaning. If you think spiritual growth comes through attending church services and Bible studies alone, you are sadly mistaken.įaithlessness comes from falling away from scripture. Read the judgments against these churches in Book of Revelations. This has happened in the VISIBLE church from the beginning. Most churches/denominations have fallen away from the true Gospel and embraced traditions and is in apostasy (not all but most). why if Jesus is so interesting is the church so boring?Ĭhurch is boring today for two main reasons.ġ) Apostasy …a falling away from truth, 2) Faithlessness due to a falling away from the Word. He would probably have been as bored in a church service as I am with pontificating preachers who neither proclaim rhema and turn logos into monotonos utterances. He referred to the Old Testament - logos. He came to announce good news for the poor, freedom for the captive and tell people that the unrelenting power of God to change you was here and available because He himself was going to die for us. Yet I cannot get over the fact that Jesus came to change all this. When I look around if I take a phenomenological approach to looking then frequently the church doesn't look much different to a mix of west end musical, political meeting of the 1930s and Islamic theology. People who are upside down on this, ie focus on the logos not the rhema, see rhema as coming out of logos and where logos is silent then make your own mind up because 'God predestined it anyhow'. Of course this is just one aspect of the word-faith movement, but does focus on spoken word, rhema, as if it of itself is powerful rather than the outworking of an all powerful God. They have a doctrine which they call 'positive confession' and which they mean that because God spoke and the universe was created it is the power of words that makes things happen. The father of the word-faith movement is usually considered to be Kenneth Hagin, but in reality he plagarized another guy called Kenyon. The word-faith movement is an example of this. Rhema without logos can produce totally off the rails interpretations of what God is saying. However, seeing a difference doesn't seem to underline enough the dangers of rhema without logos of logos without rhema. The wikipedia reference for rhema explains the difference well. Where rhema refers to the spoken word of God and logos to the written word of God. What we are seeing is a difference between two Greek words: Rhema and Logos. The New Testament does refer to Jesus as the 'Word of God' and so He is. Except of course in referring to the Penateuch and when they mean the Bible as the Word of God they don't just mean the first five books! The Bible doesn't refer to itself as the 'Word of God' as many Evangelicals are wont to do.