Everyone, Reach One

It amazes me how often the church (at large) talks a big game about out­reach yet the meth­ods we choose are big­ger and bet­ter pro­grams to hope­fully attract peo­ple to come in.  I don’t find that strat­egy any­where in scrip­ture.  Any pro­gram a church puts on should sim­ply be a tool to bring peo­ple together in rela­tion­ship, intro­duce them to Jesus, and equip them to GO and reach the world.  Thats effec­tive to work from the inside out and is use­ful.  Prob­lem is reach­ing peo­ple for Jesus is an out­side in endeavor.  Jesus’ last com­mand to all those who choose to fol­low Him, is to GO into all the world and make dis­ci­ples.  The ques­tion for each of us to wres­tle with is whether we will GO or not.  It is the all the dif­fer­ence between effec­tively reach­ing those who don’t know Jesus.  The world is wait­ing for fol­low­ers of Jesus to play like they mean, to live life among those who choose and choose not to fol­low Jesus out of gen­uine love for their neighbor.

The chal­lenge our Church took on today was sim­ply to iden­tify one per­son they would pray, serve, love, invite and ulti­mately share the good news of the gospel with.  Imag­ine if every­one reached one what an impact that would make.  As part of that chal­lenge they have a card to fill out and place in a loca­tion they will see reg­u­larly sim­ply to remem­ber to pray for that per­son as a start.  We also gave the a sec­ond card to pass in to us so that we could part­ner with them in prayer.  Every per­son would be cov­ered in prayer by at least two people.

I want to throw that out to any­one who should hap­pen to read this.  Com­ment back, or send me a mes­sage and let me know who you are pray­ing for.  We want to part­ner with you in prayer for that per­son.  I am pray­ing for peo­ple that will be impacted by the move­ment of God in those who are will­ing to GO.  I am pray­ing for lives that will be impacted for eter­nity.  And ulti­mately for God’s glory and fame as He accom­plishes His will through the willing.

Will you join us?