SLC Christian men discuss how to navigate law limiting help to drugs-alcohol users, others, in MN

By James Kokulo Fasuekoi; Editor/Publisher

Spiritual Life Church’s Men’s fellowship breakfast meeting resumed last Saturday, at the church’s edifice in Brooklyn Center, with some challenging matters put forward for deliberation among Christian Brothers. They included: how Brothers can increase their prayer time; stay intoned to the Holy Spirit and flow in the Spirit as they do the works of God.

In addition, one topic that drew much attention was the issue of evangelizing in the workplaces in America, considering the fact that law exists in almost all workplaces including business settings in the U.S. that bar Christians and believers of other Faiths from exercising their religious duties.

 As the meeting heated up, it gradually turned into brothers heartedly sharing their personal experiences such as hurdles they often encountered while trying to evangelize in their various places of work amid “rules” in American workplaces that prohibit people from discussing religious topics.

One brother who said he’s a therapist at a local rehab center in Minnesota said he believes that many young folks he works with who are enlisted in drugs and alcohol programs could easily get healed through God’s Power of deliverance if only such law didn’t prevent people from ministering to, and praying for the affected folks.  

When he had finished, another brother took the floor and spoke of how Christians in general can still go on to help, minister the WORD to people in such environments without infringing upon such laws that bar Christians from sharing the Good News and helping people who stand in need prayers.

He observed that before a Christian brother or sister can reach out to someone in the workplace environment (amid such laws), he or she must first pray and solely place the matter into God’s hands and avoid making it to appear as if he’s the one with the power to heal.

 In such case, he explained, the Spirit of God will move and Jesus would take control and do whatever needs to be done in the individual’s situation, saying, “God works in a miraculous way.”

Speaking further, he cited a time when he gave a Gospel tract to a co-worker and moments later, he saw their boss holding “the tract” as both walked up to him.

“Are you the one who gave out this tract?” the boss, apparently in a serious mood, asked him and he answered, yes.

Rather than his boss getting annoyed regarding the distribution of tracts at their workplace, the brother said, the boss pleaded with him instead to pray for his wife who had a terminal illness with a slim hope of survival.

He agreed to pray for the man’s ailing wife but asked for one favor from everyone present to join him and prayer, in agreement and believe that the ailing woman would live and not die, in Jesus’ Names!

“I told everyone presence to join me and pray in agreement for the lady who was hospitalized.”

Days thereafter, he told the gathering, his boss called to inform him that his wife had been healed of “cancer.”

He said there are many people in need of prayer in the workplaces and want people to pray for them but don’t often know who to turn to.

However, that can change he maintained, if you (as Christian), set yourself apart by walking in faith and let them see the light in you; they will seek you out for help.

The Men’s fellowship meeting had slow down because of the COVID 19 pandemic.

Organizers of the breakfast meeting hope these meetings would help to strengthen Christian Men’s faith as well as their prayer life so they could be able to meet their community’s spiritual needs.

Men from other churches in the Minneapolis area also participated in Saturday’s sections.

The Event main speaker Pastor, Rafe Ronning, who is director for Teen Challenge Leadership Institute (TCLI), encouraged Christian brothers to increase their prayer time and learn to follow the prompts of the Holy Spirit in everything they do.

Pastor Ronning whose work involves dealing with troubled teens and helping them to become good citizens in society, advised Christians wanting to cast out “devils” to learn to “flow in the spirit” and also speak in “supernatural languages,” meaning, speaking in other tongues.