Pinecrest Bible Training Center
1968-2008

John 12:24 Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone.

Beginning in 2008 the vision and bible school that God so graciously gave Wade Taylor beginning in 1968 came to an abrupt end, falling into the ground and dying.

We now wait for God to raise up and bring forth His seed of promise in another, that the vision fail not.

Spring 1996
 The Source of our Life
Everett Allen

It is good to have a knowledge of the Bible and the prophecies that concern the days that are before us, but it is more important that we grow into the spiritual person the Lord desires us to be. There are two basic principles that will help us in the development of our spirituality.

The first is that we accept Christ as the life we live. Paul said,

"I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live;
yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life
which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith
of the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself
for me" Gal 2:20.

Many profess to accept Jesus as their life and to live according to this Scripture, yet come short of a full surrender. We may be called of God, have a knowledge of the Bible, be recognized as a man or woman of God, and still live a life based upon our own needs and values.

Or, instead of accepting what Christ can accomplish through us to build up His Church, we may be overly concerned with what we can control in order to establish a good life for ourselves here on the earth.

The second is recognizing that our spiritual nature is fed as we respond to His Word. We hear the Word of the Lord in various ways; through the Bible, His anointed ministers, the inward witness of the Holy Spirit, or through that which He may speak to us. But it is only as we rightly respond that we come into a living relationship with the Lord, in which we grow into the fullness of His stature and image.

Because so few of us have recognized the true nature of sin, the Church has been hindered from achieving true unity and spiritual gain. Adam and Eve fell when they believed what Satan said, that they could be as God, choosing for themselves what they would believe or do.

The original sin of Satan was his desire to stand in the place that only God can fill. We do the same when we choose according to man's values and recognize man's authority above God's.

A truly crucified life is one in which we have unconditionally submitted our lives to His life. It is through a life fully under His control that He alone may be seen and known. Whatever comes short of this is sin.

 

 
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