More on Labeling

Last Blog I shared that labeling is the new witnessing. That means, as far as sharing the Gospel goes, it's far more fruitful to label what God is currently doing in or around a person than it is to witness your own testimony or even go through a tract of the Four Spiritual Laws.

You can read it for yourself.

So what is needed to be a labeler? Here's what I'm thinking:

1. Spiritual Alertness. There is life and there is spiritual life. A person who is spiritually alive will have the worldview of the Kingdom of God, the supernatural, and an understanding that God is everywhere, always up to something, always revealing, always coaxing others into his arms. 
2. Iconographic Sight. Following of heels of spiritual awareness, the labeler needs to have the ability to look through the things seen into things unseen. Creation, events, situations, heartache - God uses it all as portals of grace. Everything we see are iconic teachable moments of the Eternal.
3. Gifts of Revelation. When confronted with a situation a labeler will wonder what God is doing or saying. God speaks through the Spirit. A labeler needs the Spirit to speak revelational moments.
4. Common Sense. Labeling isn't rocket science. Many times it is just calling a shot over a person. You don't need to go to seminary to be a labeler. You don't even need to know the Bible all that well. Your spiritual authority will cover that as you speak the Word.
5. Compassion. Behind it all God loves people. His desire is to have fellowship with all people. He knows we are hurting. If his heart is in us then we will love the people, speak to the people, and bless the people in the spirit of compassion.
6. WIsdom. Jesus not only did what he saw the Father doing but the Father also told him what to say and how to say it. We want to be like Jesus.
7. The Holy Spirit. Need I say more?