The other day, a friend tipped me off to Sid Roth’s interview of John Fenn, a pastor who has said that Jesus has appeared to him multiple times over the past ten years or so. Usually I’m the last guy to show up to a I-saw-Jesus meeting because I’ve heard it all. While I believe [...]
The other day, a friend tipped me off to Sid Roth’s interview of John Fenn, a pastor who has said that Jesus has appeared to him multiple times over the past ten years or so. Usually I’m the last guy to show up to a I-saw-Jesus meeting because I’ve heard it all. While I believe that Jesus still manifests himself in vision form on occasion, only about 5% or less of those visions turn out to be true.
After seeing Fenn’s interview on Roth’s show, I tracked down some other information on him. To me he seems like the real deal. And that’s because in virtually all of the visions that he’s claimed to have had, Jesus has something to say to him about the body of Christ. Here is Fenn’s account of a vision that he had in Toronto in 2001 that I pulled from his website, The Supernatural House Church:
In early 2001 John was invited to conduct a seminar and minister at a church of about 200 people in the Toronto, Canada area. During the morning worship service John’s eyes were opened to the Spirit realm and he saw Jesus walk over to him saying in part:
“Do not look at the TV and larger media ministries to try to understand what I am doing in my body today. They have a part to play, but they are the visible to the eye veneer of my body that people see. Those that are carnal and immature see the outward appearance and are impressed, thinking these are the height of ministry and where the Spirit is concentrating today. But they are mistaken.”
“See what I see, many small churches and ministries investing in relationships, walking in love, pouring their lives into each other, this is where the Spirit is moving today. There is a revolution taking place in my body, a revolution of relationships and discipleship and love. This will affect whole communities and economies.”
“See what I see, many churches all over the world in which people are accountable to one another, working through conflicts, walking in love and growing as my disciples. This where the Spirit is moving today.”
“Many are running to and fro asking, ‘Where is the next move, what is the next season of the Spirit?’, and I say to you it is under their very noses. They stumble at the supernatural work in their midst and refuse to humble themselves and be taught, because they seek the sensational and that which appeals to the outward man. They fail to recognize the true move of God because it must be spiritually discerned.”
He continued: “. . . you will see this revolution continue to grow and even be recognized by many, but not as a fad or a ‘flashy’ move of the Spirit. The discerning will perceive in their spirits that this is an abiding move, as it has been from the beginning so it must be now. This will be a time of separation within my body. This is the most important point I’m sharing with you today; the true disciples are losing their taste for the shallow and the carnal, and separating themselves from those caught up in the appearance of spirituality. These are my army, the ones no one knows, these are the ones I am raising up, not to be known of man, but to be known of God.”
“You are part of this move. This move is not a move of the masses, but of the individual. Make disciples, teach the ways of the Spirit, for many are hungry to truly know me, and the Father. Lead them into intimacy and growth in Me. Hear what the Spirit is saying to the church.”
The cool thing about this vision (or prophecy if you want to call it that) is that I’ve seen it played out in my own life. In the last five years, my wife and I have gone from attending a church of over 2,000 to weekly believers’ meetings where only about eight to ten people show up regularly. If we ever go back to a megachurch, it’ll only be because we were invited to speak (yeah, that’s a laugh) or to investigate the latest fads in the body.
Hat tip to my buddy, Brian Howard.
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Brother Smythe,
I would assume then that you are OK with house churches as John Fenn advocates? Reason that I ask is that not too many in the Word/Faith camp would even go for something like this. I am aware that at Rhema, there was an “Authority and Submission” class. The home church model runs counter to the one-man show and “pastor as master” mentality so prevalent in the traditional church today. Sounds as if Jesus agrees with the home church as evidenced by John Fenn’s visions.
Would be interested on your take of the house church movement.
Thanks!