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God knows the way to form a church. Let him show us how.

God knows the way  to form a church. Let him show us how.  by Kevin E. Jesmer 3-22-14

Gods ways

So many missionaries have told me how hard it is to start a church. I know that it is hard, but I also know that there is a way. God is all wise. Isaiah 55:8 reads, “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.” (ESV) In Christ, there is a way to produce a flourishing, self-replicating church in the community we are called to serve. God knows the best way. God will show us and help us as we humbly set out in faith and follow his ways and not ours.

Following God’s way is the best way. For example we are tempted to immediately start a western style Sunday worship service where the missionaries preach and sing every week. We think that God will bless this and people will come flooding in our doors. But I hear over and over again that this is not the case. God may want us to wait on the creating a Sunday service until the new believers take the initiative and start a time of worship on their terms. Such an approach may take longer than our own plans. God may even form church constructs that we may not agree with or be comfortable with, but what God will form  a solid and long lasting and very, very fruitful, perpetuating itself throughout the generations. It will change the course of history. The Gospel will do a great, life giving work in the hearts of the people when we let God be God, let him show us his path and humbly follow his ways.




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