My 11/22/19 eNews Comment: APEST in Action

I am the only person in the universe who is producing fruit of reading the CGGC eNews, that is, I'm the only person currently engaging with it as a part of Contagious, the CGGC blog.

And, that's a shame. 

It's a good blog, though everything except for the eNews seems to have died out. 

I recommend it. 

I think that the most important things I've written in the last six months or so have been comments to the blog. 

My comment about Lance and "Joe" is still unpublished, yet I'm still hopeful. Often, it takes time. 

And, I've now entered another comment.

Because I'm not certain who, if anyone, reads Contagious, I'm entering that comment here, too.

Please read Lance's article on the blog.

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Lance,

Thanks for painting this encouraging picture of the impact one of our US congregations is having in another place in the world.

As I was reading, it struck me as the sort of thing Paul and his first century missionary team would have done if they could have been transported into this century.

I see this as APEST in action.

This is precisely what happens when people gifted to be apostles…as these people at Grand Point seem to be…are given the freedom to live in their gift and passions.

I recalled listening to Reggie McNeal, about a decade ago, in a talk he gave to another denomination, saying that, at the beginning of the 20th century, 80 per cent of the Christians in the world lived in Europe and the US but that, by the beginning of the 21st century, 80 per cent of disciples of Jesus lived outside of Europe and the US.

We live in exciting times!