Today I want to share parts of an article from Dr. Roy King, Professor of Leadership and Church Health at CIU.
The Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization in Cape Town South Africa begins on Sunday Oct 17, with 4,000+ church and mission leaders gathering together from around the world to pray and strategize to reach the world for Christ.
"Praying Scripture and praying for more than my own needs called me into identification with those outside of Christ and a desire to see the church of Christ bold and intentional in spreading God’s good news. A disciple is made by expanding their vision of God and modeling a bold and yet humble prayer life. After tasting how prayer changed me I began to teach others to pray. I began to see that what a person or a congregation prays shapes motives and prioritizes attitudes and actions. Prayer is one of the first seeds to grow as a person follows of Christ.
"I do not dismiss the importance of research and planning for engagement in the work of world evangelization. But they are not the end or the critical means to God’s work being accomplished, in God’s way, by his power. Prayer is the critical foundation. Hebrews 11:6 teaches we can only please God as we live with expectant faith. Prayer is to be faith in conversation. Prayer is to be hope in enduring seeking. Prayer is to be love flowing out to others.
"Perhaps we should see the Cape Town 2010 event as a call to prayer and be intentional in training every Christian we know to see the harvest, the need for laborers, and how prayer in faith brings partnership with the global work of the Spirit in planting a church among every people."
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