What the American church should know

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Ask yourself: Why are we less intentional about the gospel than our missionary friends overseas?
Does your first answer sound like excuse making? Mine sure does.
FoolishBlog: "What the American Church Needs to Know"

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What do you think a group of missionaries would say if you asked them the question, "What 3 things do you think the churches in America need to know about missionary work?" Pastor Dave Hegg of Corona Evangelical Free Church in southern California asked this question to a group of American missionaries in Europe. Here's the first thing these missionaries wanted the American church to know (and by "know," they meant "understand" and "be devoted to" and "live"):
#1: We wish churches in America would do "church" the way we do missions.
Here's what they meant: As missionaries, their focus is actually fairly simply. They plan their days, invest their energy, and focus their lives on this simple strategy. Make contact with unbelievers in the course of your everyday lives; invest time in turning contacts into friends; labor through the Word and prayer to see God transform friends into believers; teach and mold believers into disciples, who then start the cycle all over again, making contact with unbelievers in their world."