Comments on: I Shared the Love & I Liked It! http://chuckbalsamo.com/2009/09/i-shared-the-love-i-liked-it/ Author, Encourager, Speaker & Friend Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:23:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: chuck http://chuckbalsamo.com/2009/09/i-shared-the-love-i-liked-it/comment-page-1/#comment-2773 chuck Fri, 18 Sep 2009 10:25:05 +0000 http://chuckbalsamo.com/?p=2308#comment-2773 And CHEERS to you Essly! And CHEERS to you Essly!

]]> By: essly http://chuckbalsamo.com/2009/09/i-shared-the-love-i-liked-it/comment-page-1/#comment-2769 essly Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:28:00 +0000 http://chuckbalsamo.com/?p=2308#comment-2769 beautiful blog! and a beautiful people you have in church who excitedly to do the outreach. cheers to them .. beautiful blog! and a beautiful people you have in church who excitedly to do the outreach. cheers to them ..

]]> By: chuck http://chuckbalsamo.com/2009/09/i-shared-the-love-i-liked-it/comment-page-1/#comment-2767 chuck Thu, 17 Sep 2009 19:49:38 +0000 http://chuckbalsamo.com/?p=2308#comment-2767 Beautiful comments! Wow Esslythe, no wonder you guys have such a gigantic church in Indonesia! The methods jesus taught us to use ACTUALLY worked for him... and they ACTUALLY work for anyone who uses those same methods today! Kristin... it was FUN! Michelle... it really is wild to think how many of those folks might NEVER end up in church if it were not for the visit! The number one reason people do not attend church is because they have never been invited! Beautiful comments! Wow Esslythe, no wonder you guys have such a gigantic church in Indonesia! The methods jesus taught us to use ACTUALLY worked for him… and they ACTUALLY work for anyone who uses those same methods today!

Kristin… it was FUN!

Michelle… it really is wild to think how many of those folks might NEVER end up in church if it were not for the visit!

The number one reason people do not attend church is because they have never been invited!

]]> By: Michelle http://chuckbalsamo.com/2009/09/i-shared-the-love-i-liked-it/comment-page-1/#comment-2765 Michelle Thu, 17 Sep 2009 16:52:28 +0000 http://chuckbalsamo.com/?p=2308#comment-2765 I remember years ago, in the last town we lived in, our church did something like this. We used Wednesday nights to go door to door and ask people if they had anything we could pray with them about. I don't remember if we even told them what church we were from, we just told them we were Christians and we wanted to pray for them about whatever was going on in their lives. All we did was pray. The response was phenomenal! and many families looked for us, eagerly awaiting our arrival each week after that, so that they could pray with us again, or tell us how the prayers were answered. Most of those families never darkened the door of our church, but that wasn't important. What was important was we were taking Jesus to THEM, and meeting them right where they were, and showing them Love without asking for anything in return. And God was glorified. I remember years ago, in the last town we lived in, our church did something like this. We used Wednesday nights to go door to door and ask people if they had anything we could pray with them about. I don’t remember if we even told them what church we were from, we just told them we were Christians and we wanted to pray for them about whatever was going on in their lives. All we did was pray. The response was phenomenal! and many families looked for us, eagerly awaiting our arrival each week after that, so that they could pray with us again, or tell us how the prayers were answered.

Most of those families never darkened the door of our church, but that wasn’t important. What was important was we were taking Jesus to THEM, and meeting them right where they were, and showing them Love without asking for anything in return. And God was glorified.

]]> By: Kristin http://chuckbalsamo.com/2009/09/i-shared-the-love-i-liked-it/comment-page-1/#comment-2764 Kristin Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:44:42 +0000 http://chuckbalsamo.com/?p=2308#comment-2764 Historical, indeed! As we (the twelve) Destiny teams made history last night; walking from home to home, I felt connected to history already made. I was connected to a point in time when Jesus and his disciples moved from home to home, town to town...bringing LIFE...it was their mission and purpose and all they did for 3 years! After we convened back at the church and reflected, there was a sense of FULFILLMENT OF PURPOSE sparking joy, excitement, drive and even more love! Wouldn't it be awesome if we kept this fire burning...if we kept this desire? If we could adopt the fulfillment of purpose into our daily lives? Historical, indeed! As we (the twelve) Destiny teams made history last night; walking from home to home, I felt connected to history already made. I was connected to a point in time when Jesus and his disciples moved from home to home, town to town…bringing LIFE…it was their mission and purpose and all they did for 3 years!
After we convened back at the church and reflected, there was a sense of FULFILLMENT OF PURPOSE sparking joy, excitement, drive and even more love!
Wouldn’t it be awesome if we kept this fire burning…if we kept this desire? If we could adopt the fulfillment of purpose into our daily lives?

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