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Paul's Story

Paul shares the story of how his church community encourage each other in prayer and evangelism

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Paul's Story

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Paul shares the story of how his church community encourage each other in prayer and evangelism

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Prompt 52

Each Monday, there will be weekly challenges that promote and inspire conversations about Jesus.

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Our church is really small.

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We're a house fellowship.

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Our focus, in terms of encouraging people to share Jesus,

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is really by praying for one another, and I would say

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recently, we've got an increased burden for that.

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To be actually praying for each other where we are,

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in the context that God is giving us.

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So we focus on real life, but we want to do that

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with the intention of sharing the gospel.

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We don't do programmes for evangelism,

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but we wanna bring people into relationship

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with the group, where possible,

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but we also want to resource the individuals in the group

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to be where they are,

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in work, in their neighbourhoods and family, sharing Christ.

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I wish I could say that prayer was absolutely foundational

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to our outreach, but it should be,

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and I think we've been learning that more recently.

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I'm trying to learn that it shouldn't be about me saying,

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"Lord, look here's what I'm doing,

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"and please bless it and use it."

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But I want to be saying,

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"Lord, what are you doing and how can I follow that?"

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Because I think the Lord is at work in people's lives,

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and when we encounter them,

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we realise he's already been speaking to them,

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and it's being sensitive to how his Spirit is leading us

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to say, how do we speak into what he's already doing.

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So prayer for me is about seeking God's heart,

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both in terms of how we see other people,

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to see them as he sees them, with compassion and with love,

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but also then, to have the sensitivity to his leading

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to know how do we be his voice, and speak in,

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and be his instruments in their lives.

October 2019
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