A fews years back it occured to me that every group of believers that assembles together is and has the responsibility of being a true Church. Some would make the argument that the Great Commission is the primary goal of every local church. However, so many churches in Zambia still see themselves as the mission field and have very little desire to "go" and plant new churches.
So, this last Sunday I preached and tried to encourage the people to get involved in the Great Command to "Go"! I used the text from Matthew 9:36-38 where Jesus speaks of seeing the multitudes, having compassion because they wander with no hope, a harvest field, too few laborers, and the need to pray. The response was good as more than 20 came forward to pray and ask the Lord to make them workers in the harvest fields of this world! If only the church was truly "the house of prayer" and the people were truly "ambassadors for Christ"...maybe, just maybe, we could get that harvest in!
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I am thinking that the CHURCH is the people who gather in the building or place to worship together, etc...
You, your wife, etc. the Christians are the Church.
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