In a conversation I had a while back with a young guy talking about ministry in South Louisiana, he cited how the Muslims "take over" a city : they start with the influencers, the business owners, heads of family, local politicians, etc and build their kingdom from there. This was all cited as something good, something we as Christ's Church need to get on board with and implement into our evangelism strategies. Instead of disagreeing with him, I just spoke of how Jesus seems to reject that line of thinking with his recruitment strategy of simple men who had no "real influence".
As Vox Church continues on at its slower-than-megachurch pace, it's easy to get discouraged. Conversations like that remind me that it's OK to take it slow. It's in the footsteps of Jesus that we don't have the "most influential" people coming to our church.
Reinhold Scharnowski's post on churches on the fringes of society brings me the same kind of comfort. It's OK to use small seeds to plant God's Kingdom...
article: Fringes or Center?
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I heard something interesting awhile back on one difference between Christianity and Islam...
The Koran has no instructions for how Muslims are to act when they are in the minority... it seems designed from the beginning to "take over" and impose itself...
while...
The Bible has no instructions for how Christians are to act when they are in the majority.
Doesn't seem like it was really on the New Testament Church's radar...
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