Spirit of the Age Part 2

Spirit of the Age Part 2

Interested in the personal battles against addiction? This episode of **Release the Roar** with Bishop Lance Johnson centres on what he calls the “spirit of the age” and why religious routines without real spiritual power leave people stuck, broken and still bound. From the start, Lance contrasts memorised witnessing programmes and seminars with a life that actually carries “rivers of deliverance, rivers of healing, rivers of restoration”.

He argues that, “Being a witness for Jesus doesn’t need an instruction manual,” if the Holy Spirit is truly at work within. You’ll hear him use the story of the woman at the well and the demon‑possessed man of Gadara to show how one real encounter can send someone straight from dysfunction and oppression into bold testimony that impacts whole cities.

For anyone wrestling with addiction or destructive habits, his words hit hard: he paints the picture of a person putting a needle in their arm, gambling with their life and eternity, convinced they’re safe because they once repeated a prayer. Lance insists that, “If your salvation did not change your life, you did not get saved,” challenging empty religion that offers programmes and doctrine “without glory” and “without any presence”.

He ties this into wider cultural issues: sexuality, broken families, kids threatening parents, and a church that’s become “spineless, compromising, people‑pleasing”. Throughout, his tone is fiery yet clearly heartbroken, stressing that people caught in addiction, confusion or sexual sin “don’t need damnation, they need salvation”, and calling for a church that actually presents the nature and power of a holy God.

If you’re tired of religious talk that never seems to touch real-life bondage, this episode may push you to ask: are you just memorising verses, or are you carrying rivers that bring freedom?