After a few months of prayerwalking, picking up litter (servanthood ministry), conversations, meals, and developing friendships (community), Wade & Jake sat around after a picnic with residents at a trailer park last Sunday and talked about God’s encouragement for living (sounds like the embryo of a discipleship Bible study to me). They decided to end their dialogue by asking the group if any of them had prayer requests….4 or 5 trusted the guys enough by now to open up about a problem or person in their lives that needed God’s touch. By just being present and genuine with this impoverished community the two young men were laying the first foundations of Relationship evangelism……..
The only thing they lacked last Sunday was worship. How could they lead the group to gather regularly and expand on such meal/share/prayer times….and even add a focus on God and His Greatness in the process…a guitar maybe, or CD perhaps?
The God-Hunger is there…..that’s obvious The mutual trust has been built. The two young men seek God’s guidance persistently about how to live as a fully functioning onsite Body-of-Christ with this overlooked group……to join HIM in changing their eternities, and transforming their lifestyles….to make it the group’s own simple church for changing their slice of the world!
Since God has already revealed His desire to change lives and to see persons become Christ-followers…probably HE will guide these everyday young men to the next steps in birthing such a church!
I wonder how they will have the first baptism? …and how many futures will change because of their outside-the-box faith journey???
Would you pray for God to send forth laborers into the harvest, developing such simple examples of church in the overlooked groups around you? Luke 10:2b
