Church advancement

I WAS thinking, while I was reading the lesson, that, supposing we could blot out from our minds all knowledge of the history of Christianity from the time of this Inauguration Service--from that Pentecostal Baptism--or, at any rate, from the close of the period described in the Acts of the Apostles, suppose we could detach from our minds all knowledge of the history of Christianity since then, and take the Acts of the Apostles and sit down and calculate what was likely to happen in the world, what different results we should have anticipated, what a different world we should have reckoned upon as the outcome of it all. A system which commenced under such auspices, with such assumptions and professions on the part of its Author (speaking after the manner of men), and producing, as it did, in the first century of its existence, such gigantic and momentous results. We should have said, if we knew nothing of what has intervened from that time to this, that, no doubt the world where that war
commenced, and for which it was organized, would have long since been subjugated to the influence of that system, and brought under the power of its great originator and founder! I say, from reading these Acts, and from observing the spirit which animated the early disciples, and from the way in which everything fell before them, we should have anticipated that ten thousand times greater results would have followed, and, in my judgment, this anticipation would have been perfectly rational and just.
Catherine Booth (JAC Aggressive Christianity)

How BIG is God to you? How BIG is the revelation that God has given you of Himself? How BIG is His GRACE? How BIG is His POWER? How much does He LOVE the world? Do you believe God has the GRACE and POWER compelled by His LOVE to transform THE WORLD?

Do you believe He can heal people? Do you believe God can change the world in a second? Do you believe that once someone gives their life to God He can transform their life? That when people come to Jesus addiction and depression can fall off? Do you believe God has the power and the love to do so?

Not only do you believe HE CAN, but do you believe HE DOES and HE WILL?

I do. And when I see the advancement of the gospel in Australia going so slow when there is such strong spiritual hunger I get upset and cant help but wonder what we are doing wrong.

Then Jesus said, "Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?" John 11:40