Well, it's time to Bring It On with some of the e-mail

that you've sent in.

Gordon, this first one is from Janet, who says,

"Is it wrong not to take communion

when it's offered to you?

Is it disrespectful to God when you

don't feel like you should?"

Janet, I would say, don't take communion if you don't want to.

These are sacraments.

It's the gift of God for the people of God.

And if you don't feel like you're right with the Lord,

then don't take that, don't take communion.

But I have something for you.

Keep going to church, and there's

a wonderful story that Jesus told about a righteous Pharisee

in his prayer, and then an unrighteous tax

collector who went to the temple,

but he stood off at a distance.

And his prayer was very simple-- Lord,

have mercy on me, a sinner.

And if you pray that, Jesus says, you walk away justified.

So if you don't feel you're right with God,

and you don't want to take communion, fine, but please,

pray that prayer.

Lord, have mercy on me, a sinner.

This is from Yeukai, I think is how you pronounce it.

"Is it possible to lose your anointing?

If so, how do you get it back?"

This is one of those theological questions

that you puzzle on, I'll give you some scriptures.

One is "The gifts and the calling of God

are without repentance."

And so, the gifts are still active.

The calling on your life is still active.

But you can lose, and David prayed this,

"restore the joy of my salvation."

You can lose that joy of the communion with Christ.

You can keep all of the gifts, you can keep the calling,

but you lose your relationship with the one who called you.

And that separation, you feel it acutely.

And I would encourage repent, turn,

and you can have that joy restored.

Walk through the same steps that David walked through,

and pray the same prayers, and the same God

will answer the same prayers.

I firmly believe, if we do what they did in the Bible,

we will get the same result.

Well, maybe some of that applies

to Charlotte's question, because she's saying,

I'm a twenty-year-old girl, and I used to be a Christian.

But during the last few years, I've become an atheist.

I just stopped believing in God due to things

happening in my life.

I want to know Him again.

I keep getting this feeling that it's wrong for me

to be an atheist.

How can I start believing again and know that He is real?"

Charlotte, here's the prayer for you,

and it's one I encourage people to pray

if they don't know the Lord, and if they're wondering.

So whether you're an atheist, or an unbeliever,

or bad things have happened to you in life

and you had that question-- God, where were you?

Why is there injustice in the world,

why is there evil in the world?

All of these things, and it's a very simple prayer.

Jesus, if you're there, if you're real, if you really

are the Savior, the Messiah, if you really came for me-- could

you show me?

Could you show up for me?

Now, there's some conditions to this.

This isn't something you do casually, or flippantly.

The Bible says, "When you seek me with all of your heart,

that's when you'll find me."

So pray that, pray that earnestly

with all of your heart, and then you'll get your answer.