Political satirist PJ O’Rourke once quipped, “Everybody wants to save the earth, nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.”[1]
Every Christian leader I know aspires to change the world in some way. They want to effect meaningful, significant, and sizeable spiritual change. And, like aspiring world-changers everywhere, they—we—are instinctually suspicious of “doing the dishes.” After all, all those unseen, quiet acts of service that have to be done all over again tomorrow just don’t appear very powerful.
In my city alone, there are millions of people who don’t know Christ, and only a handful of churches. There are simply too many lost people for us to settle for simple solutions. We need big, national or international movements, not just one or two more believers! We need powerful solutions now, not just churches that might finally be healthy ten years from now!
Spurred on by this urgent desperation, Christians often look to the book of Acts. They want to find the apostle Paul’s secret sauce. How did he get the gospel to go forward? What can we learn from him? Which methods are we applying incorrectly? Which methods would produce the harvest we pray for?
But Paul’s actions in Acts
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