God Calls. Who Will Answer?

Within the realm of the Christian life, we are commanded to go and reach people for Jesus. Many of us take it for granted that "others" are more equipped and "more called" than we are and we sit idly by letting them do the ministry that we, as believers are all called to do. And while there are many ways and many ideas to reach people for the Gospel, we have to get up and actually put it into action.

On Sunday, our church heard a presentation on The Praetorian Project. While I have heard it before, it again became fresh and new as the vision was cast. Pillar Church, in Dumfries,Virginia is a body of believers that sits on the outskirts of Quantico, the "Crossroads of the Marine Corp". God has given their pastor, Clint Clifton...aka my son-in-law...and the people of Pillar a ministry vision that has an explosive future.

The apostle Paul said, "my circumstances have turned out for the greater progress of the gospel...so that my imprisonment in the cause of Christ has become well known throughout the whole praetorian guard.."  In this passage comes the premise of this project.  Pillar church doesn't want to measure her success by the numbers in attendance each week. They would rather "measure her success by the number she is able to scatter to establish new churches".  They are endeavoring, with God leading the way to establish churches at the four major Marine bases; three in the U.S. and one in Japan. It's huge, it's mind-boggling, it's way beyond their scope of completion, but not beyond the God who ordained it.

Take a moment and look this up:

www.praetorianproject.org

You will be blessed. You will be inspired. Most of all, your heart will be touched by the fact that God can get His story out using ordinary people like us.  We just have to be willing and say, "Yes, Lord".