October=Fall Weather!!
October 9th, 2008
Hey Yall!
I know its been awhile, but we’re still super busy here at Grace Youth!
Our next major upcoming event is the Worldwide Missions Sharing Service! This is on October 25th in the evening. We’ll be talking not only about the trip the youth and church took this summer to Venezuela, but ALL of our missionaries will be presenting about their trips and campaigns! Come join us and see how God is working throughout the entire world!!
Also, something else we want to start focusing on is making Disciples! As students, our current mission field is our schools, and many times we will share our faith, present the Gospel to a friend or classmate, and rejoice with him/her when they join us in having a relationship with Christ! Yet so often, that’s all we do. We just ‘get them saved’ and then move on. But that’s not how its supposed to work! Christ said, (Matt 28:19-20) “19Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” So you see, we’re only doing half of what Jesus commanded us to do! The next step is to teach them how Christ lived, so they too can glorify Him with their life. Not only that, but we are to help them grow into ‘disciple making disciples’.
Think about this. If there was only 1 Christian on earth, and everyday, he led 1,000 people to the Lord, then every month we would have somewhere between 29,000 and 31,000 new Christians! In a year…365,000 brothers and sisters in Christ!! The sad part though…is that even at that AMAZING rate, we would STILL NEVER REACH the entire world with the Good News. Why? Because everyday, there are more than 1,000 people born into this world. In fact, in 2007, it was estimated that there was 134 MILLION babies born!
Now, what if there was only 1 Christian Disciple, and for 6 months, he/she poured their life into 1 other person, leading them to the Lord, seeing them come to a saving knowledge, and then training them to make disciples, just as the first one did. So after 6 months, we have 2 Christian Disciples! But… after 6 months with the other guy, we had over 180,000 Christians…
But we’re not done yet. Those 2 Disciples spend the next 6 months finding someone in their spheres of influence, loving them to the Lord, and training them to love others to Him as well. So after a year, we have 4! Disciples…again, compared to 365,000, it really doesn’t seem as effective (or does it?)
Here is where we see addition versus multiplication.
Those 4 spend 6 more months, and we have 8. Half a year later, 16. Next year, 64. See the pattern? The numbers keep doubling every 6 months!! 128… 256… 512… 1,024… 2,048… 4,096… 8,192… 16,384… 32,768… 65,536… 131,072… 262,144… 524,288….and so on. I just listed 8 years…and we’re up to over half a million Disciples! So then 6 months later….1,048,576! A Million!
At that rate, in 17 years, the ENTIRE WORLD could be reached.
Did you just catch that….
In 17 years, the length of time most of yall have been alive…
The
Entire
WORLD
So the question is….what are we waiting for?
