"Experts" on healthy churches abound. There are enough surveys being conducted on church health to choke an elephant. There are people making a living, and a really good one at that, speaking on the conference circuit on how to have a healthy church, how to be missional, etc. Everyone has an opinion on these issues.All the while, there are churches all over the world, quietly doing kingdom work while everyone else is talking about it. Most of these churches are not the ones that make the headlines. Their pastors will never be known on this side of eternity. The pastors will never speak at a cool conference with all the bells and whistles and a fat honorarium. They are simply serving in their corner of the world, winning people to Jesus and teaching them what it means to be disciples.
Emanuel Baptist Church in Cahul, Moldova is one of those churches. They didn't need a book to tell them what a missional church is, they read THE BOOK and fell in love with Jesus. I was privileged to work with this church recently. Their Pastor Anatol Dunas is pictured above baptizing a new convert to Christ in a Sunday morning worship service.
These folks don't need a GPS Program or a denominational renewal to help them win people to Jesus. They read the Great Commandment and the Great Commission and are trying something really novel, cutting edge, and radical. They are going house to house telling the Good News! They are claiming their city for Christ. They don't have many financial resources. Their congregation has a high number of young people, young families and young students. What they have though, is the power of the Holy Spirit working in and through them. They are using every available means they can to win people to Jesus.
This kind of church can be found all over the globe. There are many here in the United States. God is working through His people in a powerful way. The Great Commission is not complicated but it is hard work. It is a lot easier to talk about it than it is to be obedient to it.
The Great Commission- Just Do It! God is moving and working for His glory.
The question is, will you be a part of what He is doing?
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