This will mark our final week with Igreja da Cidade in City of God. We have been working along with another missionary couple, a pastor, and a female missionary to plant this church. By the Lord's grace, these past five or so months have been a stretching and amazing experience. To give you guys a little taste of what we do each week in this community, here is an excerpt of a document that I developed from 1 Thess. 2:8 that helps guide our practice of visitation.
Some of the key things we want to make sure to do while visiting; when appropriate:
Pray - Ask people how they are in need, what is new in their lives, and that we would like to pray for them to seek God for help.
Learn their lives - Get to know people better, ask a lot of questions, and create a peer-to-peer relationship.
Share our lives - Let them see our godliness, and our need for a savior as well, as we converse and share how we deal with things as Christians.
Witness - Share the gospel message and ask for a response.
Love - Meet needs, share life's joys, and spend time with these people who do not have anyone else to love them.
Love the things you metioned. I think even when meeting with Christian friends it's easy to pass up alot of those things-even talking about the gospel with eachother gets lost. Tim had a good sermon on this that has really made me watch my conversation more when I am simply hanging out with people.
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