What if aliens abducted...
Here is one of my favorite things I heard from one of my favorite authors (Alan Hirsch) at the Exponential Conference a few weeks ago:
"If aliens came and abducted all of the Christians in the world and left only a Christian jr. high girl behind, she would have what it takes to spread the gospel enough to re-populate the earth with Christ-followers."
I love that. Here's his point: all of us as Christ-followers have the seed/kernel inside of us to continue to advance God's Kingdom. How? Because we have the gospel, which Paul refers to many times as being all we need ("I preach nothing but Christ crucified" and "the gospel contains the power to save"). And we have Jesus at work in us, who wants to spread this through us.
So why is this important? I personally think it is so important because we need to continue to reshape the thinking of Christ-followers to help us really get that WE CAN be the ones to carry out the mission of Jesus. We don't need to rely on missionaries and pastors. We don't need to get more biblical training. If we have the power of the gospel and of Jesus, that's enough.
I also learned through Hirsch that currently in China, where the gospel is spreading similar to the way it did in the early church in Acts, that they consider every Christ-follower a church-planter. I love that. What if we could help every Christ-follower in our churches today to see themselves as church-planters? Not the kind that have to move somewhere, find a building, raise lots of money, preach, and start services. But the kind where we can simply be the church to the people in our circles of influence that God has placed us.
So let's be church-planters and re-populaters of the Earth! Who's in?









