Thursday, December 06, 2007

She couldn't walk to church . . . so we took the church to her!

On Thursday we visited a family and shared with the man of the home. After listening to the gospel he said that he'd read a book a while back that explained the same message and that he'd prayed to receive Christ, but didn't know what to do next. He did mention that he was caring for his paralyzed sister and that she would like to hear the message. So Dani and I went into the next room and found the young lady laying in her hospital bed looking with a smile at us through the bars. We learned that she was hit by a car 7 years ago and has been paralyzed from the waist down ever since. When I asked her if she wanted to hear some good news, she answered and said that she'd already heard . . . she'd been straining to hear all that we were saying in the other room. Dani went ahead and reviewed the gospel with her and within a few minutes she was praying to receive Jesus. Afterwards we discussed ways to help her grow in her faith and the man of the house asked if Pastor Sabu or another leader in the church could come by weekly and teach them. At e3 Partners our slogan is "If they can't walk to church they can't go to church. So we'll take the church to them." This slogan was written to describe our desire to plant a church within walking distance of everyone on earth since most people don't own a car and have no church anywhere near them. Amazingly I saw the LORD bring our slogan to life this week.

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