Movement Launching

Imagine a pastor had a church of 30 people. Four months later, 200 people have made first-time commitments to Jesus through those discipled by this pastor. By the end of the first year, 40,000 people committed their lives to Jesus. In three years, a total of more than 300,000 people had accepted Christ.

Now imagine that all of this happened in one of the toughest areas in the world to share the Gospel. Would you listen to what this pastor had to say?

That's why when Baptist missionary John Li* talks about church planting, people listen. Li, a missionary to China, started a movement in his province that has led to more than 37,000 new churches in just three years.

"It has been exciting to see what God has done in our province," Li said....

For more:

http://www.pastors.com/RWMT/?id=154&artid=6549&expand=1

Spiritual Leadership

an excerpt from 'Spiritual Leadership' by J. Oswald Sanders:

"Select men full of the Spirit. And they chose Stephen, a man full of the Holy Spirit" Acts 6:3, 5

Spiritual leadership can be exercised only by Spirit-filled men. Other qualifications for spiritual leadership are desirable. This is indispensable.

The book of Acts, an inspired source - book for principles of leadership, is the story of the men who established the Christian church and led the missionary enterprise. It is of more than passing significance that the central qualification of those who were to occupy even subordinate positions of responsibility in the early church was that they be men "full of the Holy Spirit." They must be known by their integrity and sagacity, but preeminently for their spirituality. However brilliant a man may be intellectually, however capable an administrator, without this essential equipment he is incapable of giving truly spiritual leadership.

Good point Oswald.

-Ethan

Broken

Only the sinner
only the weak
only the man who lies and steals and cheats
only the woman who runs around
only the child with a selfish mouth, prostitutes and murderers, crooked businessmen
only those who have no alibi

only those who cannot hide their shame
only the dirty, never the clean
only the beggar man, never the king
only the messed up, never the made
only the sinner Jesus saves

lyrics from Josh Bales song 'only the sinner'