I've been in Pretoria all day for a conference on Church growth and development with our denomination. I am part of the committee that is helping the denomination face up to some of the challenges that we face in this day and age with changing cultures, contexts that we've never had to face before and a church culture that is not well equipped to witness to 21st century South Africa.
I've been really excited to hear some of my Zambian colleagues talk about what is happening there. There are gospel centric ministers who are training up people to plant churches. Currently they have 35 evangelists planting churches in Zambia. Another five are almost finished training and by end of next year another 15 will be in circulation, spreading the good news of Jesus. This is in an under resourced country and yet they are miles ahead of many wealthy countries. Wow! Bit by bit they are heading towards having churches in many un churched and underchurched communities that need to have the gospel proclaimed. Lets keep these guys in our prayers.
I was really impressed by these guys love for Jesus, their passion for church planting and the well run systems that they have put in place to make all of this a reality. I pray that our local churches would have this same kind of passion for the gospel of Jesus to be taken into all the world.
And I hope that the average Christian in the average church would learn to have that kind of devotion to Jesus too
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