Spirit of the Age Part 1

Spirit of the Age Part 1

What drives someone to seek a life without alcohol and addiction and then call others to a deeper life with God? This message from Bishop Lance Johnson gives you a front-row seat to that journey. Coming from years trapped in alcohol and drug addiction, Lance speaks as someone who knows what it feels like to have "the unrelenting grip" of substances and an empty soul, and what it means to be radically changed by faith.

Here, he's teaching on the "spirit of the age" and why coasting on second-hand beliefs just isn’t going to cut it. With urgency and straight-talking honesty, he challenges anyone who treats faith like a weekend hobby: "If you're just a weekend warrior... you're in dangerous territory right now." His core message? You’ve got to know God for yourself, not just know about Him. As he puts it, "You can't just know about him.

Knowing about him is not the same as knowing him." Lance links current global chaos, moral drift, and spiritual apathy to biblical prophecy, arguing that great deception is spreading and that passive, spectator-style faith leaves people exposed. He calls for daily engagement with Scripture, a Spirit-led life, and real intimacy with God rather than childhood prayers on repeat. For anyone in recovery or supporting someone who’s struggling, his words about God pursuing people in their darkest places may hit home.

He urges persistent prayer for loved ones, insisting that "God is after them" and that heaven moves when people pray in line with God’s will. The tone is fiery, sometimes blunt, and often challenging, but aimed at stirring people out of spiritual complacency and into active faith that actually changes lives.

If you’re sober, seeking sobriety, or rebuilding life after addiction, you may find his mix of end-times urgency and personal transformation a powerful nudge to ask: how solid is the foundation you're building on?