Ephesus, they were all seized with fear, and the name of the
Lord Jesus was held in high honor. Many of those who be-
lieve now came and openly confessed their evil deeds."
ACTS 19:17-18
Power is let loose when Christian start living out the Gospel on a grass-roots level. Just read Acts 19. The early church unlocked the power of God's Word as they turned upside down their local communities. Neighbors in Ephesus were gripped with an awesome fear if God as they gathered to openly confess their waywardness. It even says they held the name of the Lord in high honor. Can you imagine such a thing in your community?
Because first-century Christians lived out the Gospel on a local level, God got peoples attention.
And the same can happen today. The Lord wants to use this time of social unrest an political change as an unprecedented opportunity for the local church to demonstrate the power of God to change a situation, to change people's lives, to change a community.
Empowerment involves the people closet to a problem learning how to solve it thelselves. Need a few idea? Just open your eyes. Elderly people in dilapidated houses. Suicide among teenagers. Lonely widows iss busy neighborhoods. Abused wives and batered children. Girls with unwanted prenancies. Disabled poeple needing housekeeping help. Drug abuse in schools
These are the problems you live close to. And when believers begin living out the Gospel on a grass-roots level, God's knows how to bring salvation "O House of Israel" here's a song...
"O House of Israel"
Verse: He looking for those that allow Him
To mold them were he could be
And reshape them into His will
He want us to be
Like a clay
He breathe on us
And we have life
Verse: To your family, your friend,
And your community
And your world
Jesus He's my Savior
And My King
Coda: Halleluiah Halleluiah
Chorus: O house of Israel
Can i do with you as like this potter
We are the clay within the potter hand
This our life be in your hand
O house of Israel
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