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June 22, 2010 2 Comments
I’ve been reading a book called Radical by David Platt. In the book, Platt spends some time talking about how we measure the success of churches. While it’s easy to go down the trail of “instead of looking at it that way, look at this way,” one of the points he mentions has stuck with me the past couple of days. He talks about the commandment of going and making disciples, and the number of people doing this meaning a great deal. So, instead of looking at the amount of people in a Sunday morning gathering, look at how many are mobilizing the mission of Jesus Christ to the corners of the Earth.
At TrueNorth Church, one such number for the past week has been 20.
Right now through June 26th, 20 people have gone to Guatemala to help out in any way they can in carrying forth the name of Jesus Christ. 20 people are running a Vacation Bible School this week. 20 people are delivering supplies and doing various relief efforts in helping Guatemala recover from the volcano that erupted there recently. 20 people are giving up some of their summer, a week’s worth of pay or a week’s vacation time for the Kingdom of God.
I encourage you to pray for these 20 people over the next few days. Their trip can never have enough of that. This is also the largest group TrueNorth has ever sent to Guatemala, where our partner church is. Therefore, 20 is a number worth rejoicing.
To find out more about the present Guatemala trip, as well as the names of those who are on it, click here.
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Great point, Matt!! Yay for the 20! By the way that book is very challenging and I recommend everybody read it. Also, we need to remember that that commandment is not just for a special “called” few — but for all of us as believers. Its what the “church” is!! Lord, send us out!!
Amen, Matt! As your mentor Rick Warren says, it’s not how many people attend your church, it’s how many people your church has sent.