Streams of Living Water

“Make every home a mission station” – such was the statement I recently heard a fellow minister make as he encouraged his congregation to reach out and grow. In the intervening time, I have spent a lot of mental energy thinking through what he meant, working out how that may apply in our situation, and then communicating it to you. In my reading of the Bible and my reading of Free Church History, I soon realised that in times of God’s revival blessing, every Christian home was considered a mission station – a station for the advance of the Kingdom of God. And I wondered what the impact of such attitudes to the growth of the Kingdom of God, and to our homes, would look like in practice in St. V’s. And so, I thought, in preparation for launching out into the deep of home evangelism, I would prepare you by communicating the Word behind the Work – the Vision behind the Mission.

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“Make every home a mission station” – “Make every home a station for advancing the good news of Jesus.” Last week, we looked at the Biblical and Historical justification for making such claims and we saw that God commands and resources us for evangelism from the home. But this week, I want to move on and take up more practical issues of the how-to, although as you will discover, I’m always going to try and relate your experience to the theology of the Bible. And so I want no-one to be able to legitimately say – I don’t agree with it, or I can’t do it, or I don’t know how to do it.

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