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The Heart Of Our Ministry, Bio, & Beliefs
Our mission is to help people experience a direct personal connection with God. His voice resonates in each person as we hear Him speak, creating profound changes within His every word. Every time you hear His voice, you are transformed. We have witnessed many people of all ages hear God for themselves for many different matters - even naturally impossible ones. Nothing is impossible with Him! I have had the honor of seeing an atheist become born again while God spoke to him. We have witnessed miracles by just asking Jesus to speak the word to the problem. All who have asked find God's truth, solutions, guidance, support, and peace. As a minister I lack the answers, but God always possesses them. I can do no more than facilitate reorienting individuals to truth, connecting those with questions to The One with every answer. As a facilitator (Heb. 13:7), my work is nothing more than training wheels, needed for only a brief time, after which individuals can confidently journey on their path. Equipping saints to go out and do the ministry.
Ministry Timeline
1983 Born Again. I didn’t see it coming, but wow!
1987 Called into ministry. I didn’t see it coming. Wow again!
1990 Received Ministry License through
Living Word Church Redwood Falls MN
1990 Associate Pastor
Living Word Church Redwood Falls MN
1996 Associate Pastor
Lakes Area Word Fellowship Vergas MN
1997 Received Ministry License AFCM Int.
1998 Received Ministry Ordination from AFCM Int.
2001 Pastor Restoration Christian Church
Park Rapids MN
2003 The Revelation That “Saved” A Frustrated Minister
2006 Received Ministry Ordination from APEPT Int.
2010 Itinerant Ministry
Beliefs
Scripture is the absolute final authority on every and every subject.
• Is forever settled in heaven: Ps. 119:89
• Will by no means pass away: Matt. 24:35
• The entirety is truth, and endures forever: Ps. 119:160
• The truth is the word of God: John 17:17
Holy Spirit In Our Life & Ministry:
• Grants spiritual discernment of God's will: 1 Cor. 2:15
• Leads believers into truth: John 16:13
• Grants access to the Father in prayer: Ephesians 2:18
• Leads believers in righteousness: Romans 8:4
• Guides in making decisions: Acts 13:2, Acts 16:6-7
• Imparts spiritual wisdom: 1 Cor. 2:13
• Provides understanding of God's Word: 1 Cor. 2:12-13
• Strengthens believers with inner peace: Romans 8:6
• Helps in discernment: 1 Cor. 2:14
• Sanctifies believers: 1 Cor. 6:11
• Comforts and encourages: Acts 9:31
• Bears witness to Jesus: John 15:26
• Gives boldness in witnessing: Acts 4:31
• Produces love, joy, and peace: Galatians 5:22-23
• Equips for ministry: 1 Cor. 12:7
• Renews and transforms the believer: Titus 3:5
• Empowers for spiritual discernment: 1 Cor. 12:10
• Provides strength in weakness: 2 Cor. 12:9
• Helps believers overcome the flesh: Galatians 5:16
• Equips for holy living: Galatians 5:25
• Imparts spiritual gifts for the common good: 1 Cor. 12:7
• Empowers believers to overcome fear: 2 Timothy 1:7
• Equips believers with the armor of God: Ephesians 6:11
• Empowers believers to love one another: Romans 5:5
(this is not an exhaustive list)
As a minister of the Gospel:
2 Tim. 2:15 (NKJV) Be diligent to present yourself approved to God, a worker who does not need to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
The command “give diligence” (Greek word spoudazo) for God’s approval by “rightly dividing” the word of truth. Truth is to be rightly divided: “Sanctify them through thy truth: thy word is truth” (John 17:17).
To “rightly divide” the Scriptures (Greek word orthotomeo), is only used this one time: to cut straight, to cut straight ways; to proceed on straight paths, hold a straight course; to make straight and smooth; to handle aright; to teach the truth directly and correctly.
To “present yourself” as one who is, therefore, approved by God.
2 Tim. 2:15 (Voice) Timothy, do everything you can to present yourself to God as a man who is fully genuine, a worker unashamed of your mission, a guide capable of leading others along the correct path defined by the word of truth.
2 Cor. 3:6 (Amp) He has qualified us [making us sufficient] as ministers of a new covenant [of salvation through Christ], not of the letter [of a written code] but of the Spirit; for the letter [of the Law] kills [by revealing sin and demanding obedience], but the Spirit gives life.
Be a minister with genuine outcomes of faith (divine persuasion) so as to give others a faith life to imitate (mentor them).
Heb 13:7 (NASB) Remember those who led you, who spoke the word of God to you; and considering the result of their way of life, imitate their faith.
1. Remember [recall by memory] (GPI*)
those who rule [lead] over you, who have spoken the word of God to you, whose
2. faith (divine persuasion) vs DIY-self governing effort, Independent agent, Self govern).
3. follow (GPI*) [imitate your minister mentor]
• 1 Cor. 11.1 Imitate me, just as I also imitate Christ.
4. outcome: 1545 (Greek ekbasis) it refers to "God's way out" which also always leads to His next stop (to receive full, divine provision).
1 Cor 10:13 “way of escape”
5. of their conduct: (Greek anastrophē) refers to the new lifestyle (change of behaviors) from experiencing God's inbirthing (gift) of faith ("God's persuasion”).
• Obeying God's voice changes our conduct
• Luke 6:40 “…but everyone who is fully trained will be like their teacher”
• 2 Cor. 1:4 “who [God] comforts us in all our affliction so that we will be able to comfort those who are in any affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
• I can only give out of what I have received first.
• If I fake a smile then I “teach” that to others.
• Some things are more caught then taught.
6. Considering: gazing to grasp the implications (significance) of what is seen; that is, "to observe closely and give serious consideration to.
*GPI: Greek Present Imperative! Keep on doing this, ongoingly as a lifestyle! - must happen habitually, continuously, progressively
1 Pet. 4:11 If anyone speaks, let him speak as the oracles [utterances] of God. If anyone ministers, let him do it as with the ability which God supplies, that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, to whom belong the glory and the dominion forever and ever. Amen.
Eph. 4:11-13 And he gave the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, the shepherds and teachers, to equip the saints for the work of ministry, for building up the body of Christ, until we all attain to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.
Equip the Saints to do ministry
In Essentials Unity, In Non-Essentials Liberty,
In All Things Charity.
~Rupertus Meldenius, 1627
Andy Spurlin Ministries
P. O. Box 129 Park Rapids, MN 56470
Andy@AndySpurlin.Org
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I know the LORD is always with me. I will not be shaken, for he is right beside me. (Ps. 16:8)