The Amplified Crusade

The Amplified Crusade is over. The tent has been taken down, and all the speakers, lights and folding chairs put away. Over a hundred kids walked the isles to stand before the evangelist heads bowed. Were some of those decisions purely emotion? Sure. Were many of them real? Yes! Now what? How will our church minister to those youth whose hearts were opened this past week? Listen to Leroy Eims as I borrow a excerpt from his book "The Lost Art of Disciple Making".

"The ministry [of making disciples] is to be carried on by people, not programs. It is to be carried out by someone and not by some thing. Disciples cannot be mass produced. We cannot drop people into a "program" and see disciples emerge at the end fo the production line. It takes time to make disciples. It takes individual, personal attention. It takes hours of prayer for them. It takes patience and understanding to teach them how to get into the Word of God for themselves, how to feed and nourish their souls, and by the power of the Holy Spirit how to apply the Word to their lives. And it takes being an example to them of all of the above."

Leroy Eims is right! It is my prayer that there are many, many such Christians willing to raise these babes in Christ. We long for baptisms, but are we ready to raise spiritual babies? God will not put babies in broken incubators. Lets make sure that we raise these baby Christians the right way. It is not enough just to point them toward the youth room and hope a disciple turns up in the College and Career class in a few years. There is no way that Jake and Nichole can disciple all these youth on their own. They need our help! They need people who will give "individual, personal attention to these kids". They need people who will pray for hours for these kids. They need people with patience and understanding. They need people who will live as examples to these kids.

Pray that the Lord will send workers into this harvest of souls.

Brother John