To be blunt, friends, may the reason we aren't seeing a revival in the church, aren't seeing new people coming to Jesus in droves, is because we aren't listening and responding as the Church. This past Sunday, exploring John 21, we saw how John recognized the voice of Jesus and Peter responded. We talked about how we need all sorts of people with different gifts in the church, both those who hear and those who respond, in order to be the church together. The problem sometimes though, is that we do hear but we act like we don't, and we are called to act, but refuse to go.
The church is not going backwards. We aren't going back to any other period of time, we can only go forward. In the community where I live, eighty percent of people do not go to church. Eighty percent. We can no longer just open up our doors and think that is good enough evangelism. We need to cast our nets to the other side of the boat and be willing to try new things to reach new people.
What are we willing to risk, friends, for the sake of the Kingdom? What steps are we willing to take to proclaim the Good News, anew?
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