Why Not?

// December 16th, 2009 // Boston, Vision

I’m wondering…  Why can’t God do something amazing in Boston?

I’ve had the privilege of speaking to a few pastors and other church planters about Aletheia Boston. For the most part it has been a great experience. But, every now and again I get a look of dismay and disbelief, that I actually expect God to grow and prosper his church in a place as “difficult” as Boston, as if God were limited in his power to only be able to reach conservative southerners, or those in the third world.

Nonsense.

Since its Christmas, let me whip out a Christmas bible verse.  When the young, uneducated Mary was told by Gabriel that she would have God’s Son while still being a virgin, she responded to a seemingly difficult-to-believe situation by saying I am the Lord’s servant,” Mary answered. “May it be to me as you have said.

So I say, why not? I don’t think there’s a good reason.

One Response to “Why Not?”

  1. nic gibson says:
    December 16, 2009 at 11:13 am

    and just after: Luke 1:45 45 Blessed is she who has believed that what the Lord has said to her will be accomplished!”

    It is one level of unbelief in the power of the Gospel to not go to these places ourselves. It is another level altogether to not bless and help those that WANT to go and who do believe in the power of the Gospel. If we in the Conservative South do not believe the Gospel can win hearts in the Liberal North, then perhaps the church in both places are in about the same place spiritually.

    So for as I can tell, our standing orders are to be on offense.

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