How to Start a Power-Packed Effective Church: Lessons from Thessaloniki

05/02/23 • -1 min

Podcast: Light on Life Season Ten Episode Eighteen

How does one pioneer a power-packed effective church? That’s the question today. We are going to take a look at how the call of God and the zeal of the Lord upon the Apostle Paul turned into a power-packed Church in one of the ten most influential cities in the Roman Empire, the city of Thessaloniki. Now, one thing is certain from the following illustration — this is not how Paul did it. You know, about 350 years ago a shipload of travelers landed on the northeast coast of America. In the first year, this group of pioneers established a town site. The next year they elected a town government. In the third year, the town government planned to build a road five miles westward into the wilderness. In the fourth year, the people tried to impeach their town government because they thought it was a waste of public funds to build a road five miles westward into a wilderness. Who needed to go there anyway? Is that wild or what? Here were people who had the vision to travel three thousand miles across an ocean and overcome great hardships to get there. But, once they got there, in just a few years they were not able to see even five miles out of town. They had lost their pioneering vision¹ F.B. Myer said, that the church that refuses to be a missionary church will become a missing church. the Apostle Paul didn’t get saved to sit — He got saved to be sent. The result of his obedience to go? The powerful church at Thessaloniki. How to Start a Power-Packed Effective Church: Lessons from Thessaloniki, that’s our focus on this week’s Light on Life.

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How the Breath of God Inspired the Writing of First Thessalonians What It Means to Yield to the Anointing of the One True God How You Can Explode with 2020 Vision

Podcast: Light on Life Season Ten Episode Eighteen

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How the Breath of God Inspired the Writing of First Thessalonians What It Means to Yield to the Anointing of the One True God How You Can Explode with 2020 Vision

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How the Breath of God Inspired the Writing of First Thessalonians

Podcast: Light on Life Season Ten Episode Seventeen

So, we have finished the book of Ephesians and now we are switching to Paul’s letter to the Thessalonians, the first letter that is, Paul wrote 2 letters to this church. In upcoming podcasts, we are going to be talking about this letter. We will do some Bible background on the book and focus on just how the gospel came to Thessaloniki in the first place. We will look at the subject of integrity from Paul’s point of view. I mean what should integrity look like in a Jesus follower? How should we conduct ourselves in these areas? Then, we’re going to jump in and talk about persecution and how we should get a handle on this if we are confronted with it. And then, of course, Paul talks about the Second Coming of Jesus. But first, let’s talk about the historical background of the book and “How the Breath of God Inspired the Writing of First Thessalonians” That’s our focus today on this week’s Light on Life.

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Why It’s Vital that Jesus Followers Pray for One Another

Podcast: Light on Life Season Ten Episode Nineteen

In today’s podcast, we are going to talk about the high value of praying for one another. We need to home in on this and give it the due place in our lives. You know we pay a lot of lip service to the notion of praying for one another. The words ‘pray for me’ or ‘I’m praying for you brother’ are part of our Christian-ese vocabulary. For people in the church world, it’s the thing to say. I mean you wouldn’t dare say that you weren’t going to pray for someone, would you? But when those words leave your lips, do you actually execute and lift your voice to God? That intercession is a great and necessary part of Christian devotion is very evident from Scripture. The first Jesus followers showed their love by mutually praying for one another. Paul, whether he’s writing a letter to a church [a group of people] or addressing an individual shows that his intercession for them is perpetual. It was this holy intercession that raised Christians to such a high level of love and development. When this same spirit of intercession is yielded to by Jesus followers, when Christianity has the same power over the hearts of people that it then had, this holy friendship will again be in fashion, and Christians will be again the wonder of the world.¹ Why It’s Vital to Pray for One Another, that’s our focus on this week’s Light on Life.