{"id":420,"date":"2021-05-12T19:04:53","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T23:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-hilt\/?p=420"},"modified":"2021-05-12T19:04:56","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T23:04:56","slug":"birthing-a-church-what-does-that-take","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-hilt\/2021\/05\/12\/birthing-a-church-what-does-that-take\/","title":{"rendered":"Birthing a church… what does that take?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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A church is birthed\u2026 <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

That team of missionaries we\u2019ve been telling you about all summer long have witnessed the birth of the church among the Wantakia people of Papua New Guinea.  The teaching finally reached the story of Jesus\u2019 death, burial and resurrection.  Many people embraced the gospel on that day but the story doesn\u2019t end there.  Theteam continued with teaching and are now going back thru the stories to strengthen the believers in what they heard.  They will now move forward in teaching the people thru the epistles and what it means to be rooted in Christ.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our missionaries aren\u2019t any different than you.  They didn\u2019t have to walk away from their previous careers<\/p>\n\n\n\n

or houses and lands and family.  Or did they?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As one of the men on the team said \u201cI was asking \u2018What is God\u2019s will for my life?\u2019 when I realized I was asking the wrong question.  I should have been asking \u2018What is God\u2019s will and how do I fit into it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Missionaries aren\u2019t anything extraordinary; they are much like any believer\u2019 or individual in life.  We all have our issues and distresses.  But I can tell you they are individuals with deep com-passion for lost people.  \u2026And they are willing to do something about it.  Those serving with Ethnos360 are not missionaries because they went to some faraway place.  No, they were already active witnesses \u2018here\u2019 and wanted to go \u2018there\u2019 to impact lost people with the gospel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here, there, wherever\u2026 God wants all believers to be active and devoted to the   directive He\u2019s given us to \u2018make disciples\u2019 among all peoples.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Establishing maturing churches\u2026 what does it take?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The growth of the church, not by number, but by spiritual maturity, is dependent upon each believer understanding the foundational truths of God\u2019s Word.  Most places where our teams minister are like untilled fields where seeds of truth have not been sown.  People living in such areas are considered the least-reached of the unreached world.  It is important to us as it is to God that such ones hear the gospel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

People everywhere have some sense of a greater being, though millions remain in darkness and live unfulfilled lives because such a being is a mystery to them.  They live in fear, placating spirits or performing ritual to escape the bondage that drives their fear.  Round and round they go\u2026 nothing changes and bondage deepens.  It is in such places that we put teams of missionaries to bring the complete story of God. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beginning with God\u2019s character, the teaching moves through creation\u2019s story and truths set forth in the scriptures that expose man\u2019s sinfulness, and ultimately points him towards a coming savior.  I guess you could say it compares to assembly instructions –you don\u2019t start in the middle of the instruction booklet to assemble a complicated piece of equipment; you start at the beginning.  \u2026And so it is with unfolding God\u2019s story.  Get that right, you set in motion the foundation for understanding and belief, from which you see God doing just as Jesus described when he said \u201cI will build my church.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A church is birthed\u2026  That team of missionaries we\u2019ve been telling you about all summer long have witnessed the birth of the church among the Wantakia people of Papua New Guinea.  The teaching finally reached the story of Jesus\u2019 death, burial and resurrection.  Many people embraced the gospel on that day but the story doesn\u2019t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":276,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-hilt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-hilt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-hilt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-hilt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/276"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-hilt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-hilt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-hilt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-hilt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-hilt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}