What if your church could become a catalyst for transformation in your community and throughout the world?
Your church was made for a mission—this is God’s design. Jesus and his disciples modeled that the church is meant to be the place where life change and practical solutions flow out from healthy members to the world.
Here are four ways your church can reach your next level in caring for your community and ministering to communities around the globe:
Reclaim your church’s role in missions.
God designed the local church to be the hands and feet of Jesus in the community. Jesus showed us his ministry priorities by caring for the sick, assisting the poor, educating the next generation, and loving his neighbors. We are called to follow his model.
For many years, however, organizations and governments have taken on much of the work we consider missional—from caring for the poor in our communities to sheltering orphans overseas. While these entities are important, they alone can’t create change on the scale that will truly solve the problems impacting billions around the globe. We will never have enough doctors, teachers, or…
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The last of the pastors have arrived, from around the world this morning, for the next All-Africa Pastors’ Gathering here in Rwanda. This is the second gathering of leaders as we build toward the All-African Purpose Driven Leadership Congress in 2017. The next three days we will be moving leaders closer to catalyzing 54 nationwide movements of healthy, purpose driven churches who are transforming lives in their communities and planting churches where none exist. It is our desire to see the Great Commandment and the Great Commission fulfilled everywhere!