Come Alive – Day 18
January 26, 2012 by admin
Welcome to Come Alive: 21 Days. These entries are coinciding with our 3 week vision series that we are currently in and we pray they both challenge and encourage you. This post was written by Will Pavone, the Frontline Tysons Campus Pastor.
Over the last fifty years, the center of Christianity has shifted from the western world to the global south. While the west is steadily fading into secularism, the Church in Africa, South America, and parts of Asia is growing exponentially.
This past November, I got to experience how God is at work in western Africa.
I was part of a small team from Frontline who went to the tiny, war-torn country of Burundi to minister to pastors and to the staff of an organization called World Relief. The people of this incredibly beautiful country have suffered from decades of civil war and unrest. While the country has experienced several years of stability, the spiritual climate is still fragile. Our goal as a team was to encourage the pastors and staff through Christ-centered teaching and leadership training. By God’s grace I believe our efforts were fruitful, but in honesty, I think I learned a lot more than I taught.
I learned that God is a global God and that His gospel is bearing fruit around the world, even in places devastated by war and unrest. I learned that worship is trans-cultural, a universal language that unifies the body of Christ. Lastly, I was reminded that God calls us to have a global awareness concerning His redemptive purposes and that we should pray for the gospel to come alive in the hearts of all peoples!
- Will Pavone
To listen to the sermons from this series, please click here.
