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What is an Encounter?An Encounter is an experience where one is led to have a personal encounter with God. During the Encounter weekend the participant is carefully led to confront the past and the present with the Word of God, so that God's purpose and plan for the future can be revealed and released. After the Encounter faith is activated, the gifts of the Holy Spirit are stirred up, and one is launched into a phase of preparation and discipleship to become a leader of God's people.
The goals of the Encounter are:
What happens at an Encounter? Through the Encounter one realizes that there is so much more in life after "accepting Jesus." Relationships are healed and restored with God's love and forgiveness. Dysfunctional, destructive, and sinful lifestyles are confronted with God's grace and turned around toward God and His care.
What is a Pre-Encounter? A Pre-Encounter session is scheduled to prepare the participants for the Encounter. The Encounter leader lays a foundation of what an Encounter is and what should be expected. The participants are given practical things to do to prepare their hearts and minds to experience a personal encounter with God and are encouraged to expect Him to make changes in their lives.
Where is it held? Encounters are held separately for men, women, couples, youth, and children. They are typically held at a retreat camp or hotel within one or two hours of San Jose or Jubilee, away from home and your work environment. The average number of people who attend the encounter is 50 to 60.
The Encounter Weekend At the Encounter, the weekend is spent in several sessions that cover repentance, healing of hurts and emotions, deliverance, what Jesus did on the Cross, the Holy Spirit, and God's plan and vision. In each of these sessions, the participants are led to "walk through scriptures" and allow God to touch them personally, whether to confront sin and receive forgiveness or to reveal a deep hurt and receive the healing.
The Post-Encounter Immediately after the Encounter weekend, a Post-Encounter session is held to provide practical teaching on:
What the next step is: Life Foundation Classes
Is it for me? At these Encounters a miracle will happen in your life through the focused and powerful teaching of God's Word. You will be individually prayed for and ministered to by the Encounter team, who expects nothing less than God's power to radically change your life. Prior to the Pre-Encounter, the Encounter team spends about one week in prayer and fasting for the Encounter and all the participants, including you.
If you desire a change in your life because nothing is happening and life seems to be going nowhere, or you want to be used more by God, then, the Encounter is for you!
Hear from changed lives! Let us look at what some men and women have to say about their experience at an Encounter.
"I was set free from generational sins and curses, a spirit of pride, sexual impurity, and disrespect for others."
"Before I came to the Encounter, I was depressed, fearful, angry, bitter, jealous, hateful, resentful, unforgiving, judgmental, impatient, disobedient, untrusting, cynical, feeling worthless, and full of grief and shame. I was set free from all of these! I was able to sleep for the first time in months!"
"I was cleansed from generational curses, and I received the baptism of the Holy Spirit and was singing to God in tongues."
"I was delivered from generational curses, pornography, overeating, and weak faith. I was convicted of and set free from not tithing."
This is just some of the feedback we have received about the changes that have occurred in someone’s life after attending an Encounter. There are hundreds more that are similar or of even greater impact. |
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Jubilee Christian Center 175 Nortech Parkway, San Jose, CA 95134 408-262-0900 |
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