Week 12

The Next Generation

FAITH is one semester from extinction. This is what Brother Robert reminds us each semester. We have a good group going, but in just one semester all that can be gone. FAITH is reliant on new learners each semester. It is the biblical principle found in 2 Timothy 2:2. We are to make disciples and they are to go out and make disciples.

Best case scenario would be that each person on our three-person teams would start a team of their own next time around. They would take the new learners under their wing and train and disciple them. Just think about it. This time we have 3 people. Next time there would be nine. The third semester there would be 27. In just 5 semesters FAITH would involve 243. That is almost all the people in church on a given Sunday. You know the Great Commission is directed to all of us.

We have been entrusted with a special gift, the Gospel. We are to share it and train others how to share by discipleship.

Our Visit

This was our last official visitation time this semester. We were one member short on our team, so we stole Wesley from another team. Wesley was fired up. He just finished learning the entire FAITH Gospel Presentation and is anxious to share. He wanted to do opinion polls. We had a couple houses assigned in a new neighborhood. After searching for the road with no luck, we parked on a corner and started down the street. The first few houses were uneventful. There was some new construction going on and the workers were just watching the concrete dry. We approached them and started talking about their work. We asked if they had time for a few questions. When he agreed, it was turned it over to Wesley. He asked the four questions with the last being the “Key Question”. He gave kind of an unclear response, but then explained it a little better.

We went across the street and two ladies answered the door. They attend Central Baptist Church, which was the same church that the pastor was from on last weeks visit. We had a good visit with them, encouraged them to join FAITH at their church, and to tell the pastor that we visited them. They both gave a strong faith answer on the key question that was asked.

Note from last weeks visit with the pastor. While we were talking to the pastor, they opened a door in the hall to block the view of the rest of the house. The daughter was taking a bath and they didn’t want her to wonder out not knowing there was company. While she was behind the door she was listening to our conversation with her dad.
The next Sunday the daughter told her teacher that she had to go to big church because she was saved. The teacher told one of our members that the dad said that his daughter has been under conviction for a while and that a FAITH visit was all she needed. Even though we didn’t talk directly to her and didn’t even give the gospel, God will work through us. It is amazing that God would use someone like us to accomplish His will.

Prayer Request

Pray for my brother and his girlfriend. They are planning on getting married in the next week. Pray for Patty’s step-dad, Don. He has a collapsed lung and should have surgery on Friday to repair the hole.