Reputation

As I was handing out balloons this past Saturday, someone stopped me and said, "Your church is always doing stuff in the community" He went on to say that many people are commenting to him that our little church is constantly "doing something".
You know, I guess it's good that a church has a reputation for helping others. I'm not complaining. But, my prayer for 2010 is that we can move beyond being recognized for "doing stuff" and begin to make an actual impact on our community.

Please don't confuse what I'm trying to say. God has given me a vision for so much more than name recognition. . .

Imagine for a moment that we were able to reach every single person in Spartanburg County in 2010. What if we could make Jesus famous to every resident in Boiling Springs and surrounding areas? Now consider the fact that people usually become the Christian that is modeled for them in their church and answer the obvious questions:


Would waitresses still hate Sundays because Christians are jerks and bad tippers?


Would the homeless population increase or decrease?


Would we still have children waiting to be adopted?


Would we still be ashamed to pray in our schools or businesses?


Would Greenville, Union and Cherokee counties have any idea that Jesus was at work next to them?


This time next year I want to be writing that people who know nothing about God are commenting that GOD is at work in Boiling Springs.




Keep up the hard work of making the name of Jesus Christ famous in Boiling Springs.