Organic Ministry is fun!

Organic ministry is fun! People in the group are catching the vision of everyone making disciples who are also making disciples. If this can work everywhere else in the world - God can (and already is) doing it here. You can visit Pastor Terry's blogsite www.sunministries.blogspot.com and see for yourself.

They are calling themselves "True Vine" and after only 22 days as a Missionary Church sponsored disciple-making/church plant, Pastor Terry & Suzette Goodwin have reason to praise God (and so do I). Today we met in another park for a combined gathering. Everyone meets in home groups during the week and every two weeks they gather for a different kind of meeting -you could say the Church gathered together today. With a growing understanding that we are all supposed to make disciples - more and more people are signing on with the vision of making the Great Commission the most important thing we do.

Organic ministry is fun! We fellowshipped together, we worshipped God, we prayed, Pastor Terry gave an awesome lesson on the Parable of the Soil and applied it to our lives and how people represent the different soil -but good soil brings forth fruit and the fruit is changed lives through our lives. We had communion together, we shared a potluck together, we shared how God was working in our lives and we shared our burdens with one another. But more than that the "True Vine" group is solidifying around the vision of making disciples organically.

We didn't go to church today -we were the Church -the Body of Christ gathered together as a family and with our own families. Children were helping to lead some singing, children gathered up our song sheets, children were listening and quietly watching. Parents were not shuffling their kids to another place - we were the Church together and it felt like the New Testament to me.

Have you ever gathered as (or with) the Church among people who love you, are concerned about you, know what you are going through, are praying for you, who really care about your walk with Christ, who would do anything for you? My wife Michelle could not attend with the Church today but some from the group stopped me before I left and asked me to bring Michelle when we meet together again in two weeks because they missed her today.

Let's watch God multiply as we all take seriously the Great Commission and start doing what it says!