Adventures of a dutch evangelist

The modern Church has, in many places, drifted from the simple and powerful model Jesus established. We have built platforms where there should be tables of fellowship. We have elevated personalities where there should be servanthood. We have created systems where titles, logos, branding, and status often carry more weight than Christlike character. Many believers have been conditioned to revere pastors and leaders in ways that border on idolatry—to treat them as untouchable, unreachable, and spiritually superior. We applaud them from a distance, protect their image at all costs, and sometimes act as though the Kingdom of God depends on their presence. But this is not the model Jesus gave us. The biblical pattern is not celebrity leadership. It is servant leadership. 👍 Jesus Rejected Earthly Status and Religious Prestige Jesus, the Son of God, could have chosen status, luxury, and visible power. Instead, He chose humility. The Bible says: “Who, being in very nature God, did not consid...

Bible passage: Isaiah 60:1-5 KJV [1] Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee. [2] For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee. [3] And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising. [4] Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: all they gather themselves together, they come to thee: thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters shall be nursed at thy side. [5] Then thou shalt see, and flow together, and thine heart shall fear, and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall be converted unto thee, the forces of the Gentiles shall come unto thee. I want to speak to you as the Lord's bride and tell you that it's your time to shine bright with the glory of God as the people in the world are waiting for you and me to reveal ourselves in all our brightness! It's time to arise and shine,...

As I was reading this particular passage of Ephesians 4 I while ago, I suddenly received the following revelation: "Now these are the gifts Christ gave to the church: the apostles, the prophets, the evangelists, and the pastors and teachers. Their responsibility is to equip God’s people to do his work and build up the church, the body of Christ. This will continue until we all come to such unity in our faith and knowledge of God’s Son that we will be mature in the Lord, measuring up to the full and complete standard of Christ. Then we will no longer be immature like children. We won’t be tossed and blown about by every wind of new teaching. We will not be influenced when people try to trick us with lies so clever they sound like the truth. Instead, we will speak the truth in love, growing in every way more and more like Christ, who is the head of his body, the church. He makes the whole body fit together perfectly. As each part does its own special work, it helps the other parts g...

At the beginning of 2024 I asked the Lord for a word for the year and I haven't had the opportunity to share it with the wider public. I believe this w ord is not just a specific word for 2024, but a word of which I believe is for all the groups I mention below: As I am spending time with the Lord in recent days, I started receiving three words which I felt strongly are three groups of people and three things that the Lord wants us to do this year.  The three words are visitation, preparation and activation. I saw three groups of people the Lord is speaking to this year and I will explain them one by one: Visitation: The Lord wants us to come back to a place of visitation. Many of us feel burnt out and are in a place of giving up their dreams, careers, faith life, marriages, and many other things as it's become to difficult for them to continue. Often it is because we do things in our own strength and think we can fix problems ourselves without having God involved in our everyd...

Let me introduce myself for those who don't really know me. My name is Reggie van Dinter and I am 35 years old and I emigrated to the UK in 2017 as a missionary evangelist with a clear call from the Lord to be part of what He is doing in this nation. I remember, in 2012 I received a straight forward prophetic word from an accurate prophet of the Lord about me having a specific call to England and Ireland, but I would travel all over the nations preaching the Gospel and bringing the giants to their knees when I preach the Gospel. I kind of put the word in the draw and didn't do anything with it for about a year. As soon as the riots broke out in England a year later, I suddenly started crying and going on my knees and praying for the nation After this, I got connected via Facebook with a local church in Manchester. The following year (2014) I ended up at a evangelism conference in Liverpool and I went with one of the elders of my local church back then in the Netherlands. This i...

I know what has happened at the opening of the Olympics is not ok. I am appalled at what has been going on. Thankful for the light of the Gospel that shines brighter. I wanted to personally share some of my personal thoughts on the matter and I might step on some religious toes, but I felt strongly to share my heart with you all and I pray that you will hear me out as I am committed to preach the Gospel, seeing the lost saved, broken hearted healed up, captives being set free and see people genuinely encounter Jesus!  We need to remember that the LGBTQ people are people and the biggest issue here is that rejection is one of the biggest problems in the LGBTQ community. I have been part of this community for a while when I was younger due to circumstances in my life that happened. This has ended up in me experimenting in this lifestyle. Praise God that I had born again Spirit filled loving, caring and committed Christians who continued calling out the gold in me and pointed me to my ...

A little while ago I had a precious time with my cousin Brian Silos and we had many inspiring, challenging and thought provoking conversations.  He asked me this question: Why do you want to do evangelism? I said I simply want to tell people about Him as I love Jesus and I want people to know there's a God who loves them and has a plan for their lives. He then challenged and provoked me about something that's close to his heart and has become something close to my heart which is this; there's so many churches in our town who are out on the streets, preaching the Gospel, but in the meantime they are not living in unity, love and care with fellow church members or even with other churches and always pointing the fingers at each other for things that have happened!  People who don't go to church will look at us and say; yeah right, you say you are a disciple of Jesus, but you are speaking badly about your fellow brothers and sisters or you are not even showing love, care...

Perhaps a boring topic for some: church government. But if you don't organize things Biblically here, you're asking for trouble. And problems in the church often mean problems with eternal consequences. People losing their faith. Unbelievers who are not reached. Heaven and hell, life and death. That makes everything a little less boring. Text: Christian Tan A common mistake is that the highest authority is not given to those who are really the spiritual leaders. Instead, there is a board, a church council, a supervisory board, or a democratic meeting that determines everything. This can still go well by God's grace, but this is despite and not because of how we have arranged the government.  In the Bible we see that there are three layers of leadership in the church: (1) apostles, (2) elders, and (3) deacons. The apostles are pioneers who plant churches, recruit leaders, watch over Biblical teaching, and help the church remember the big picture of God's mission. Their...

  "What does real revival look like?" This is a question many people would ask themselves. This is what I have been seeking the Lord about since I heard about the Asbury outpouring. First of all, I believe what has been happening at the Asbury outpouring is a genuine move of God and I would have loved to go and visit to see for myself what the Lord has been doing in Kentucky. I am seeing news popping up of similar moves of the Spirit of God at various other universities and in other nations which is awesome! I am so excited for what is happening in this NOW season. One of the main things that hit me was seeing part of the video of the student who shared his vulnerability and flaws in his sermon. This was the beginning of the Asbury Outpouring. Students coming in to repent, ask forgiveness and turn from their wicked ways is what I was seeing. This was an outpouring of the love of the Father for His kids and His children coming back to Him in all humility and humbleness.  When ...

People often say that miracles, signs, wonders, healings etc were for the days of the apostles and now the apostles of the bible are not with us, that those don't exist anymore. We have a lot of conservative reformed theology which says we don't live in those times anymore and we only follow the written word of God which is true. I believe in the written word of God, but it doesn't stop there. The word of God is like a two edged sword cutting through bone and marrow. The word has power to save, power to heal, power to deliver and set free. There are still countless testimonies of healings, miracles, salvations by the dozen and many encountering the presence of God. In this article I would love to share the wonderful things the Lord has done over the last 7 weeks my wife Angela and I have been travelling the UK with the purpose of preaching the Gospel, ministering to the broken-hearted, working alongside local churches and to connect people and ministries together to advance...

Soul Survivor Holland Vision - Army of the young About 17 years ago at Soul Survivor Festival in my home country of The Netherlands I had this vision. I remember this vivid vision as if it was yesterday that I received it. During an intense time of worship, I was laid on the floor out in the Spirit. I think I was out for like an hour on the floor.  This is the vision I received: "I saw in a vision a huge group of young people with trumpets and flags in the hand, marching through these streets proclaiming the name of Jesus. I saw the streets turning red hot with the fire of God and as these young people were marching through, people spontaneously started to manifest demons and got set free and delivered, getting saved as well." I have been walking around with this vision for the last 17 years and wondering what it would mean and if it would ever come into reality. I have been asking myself, but most of all God what He wanted to say with this. I am going to explain to the best ...