Pray for a Movement

First off, congrats to the Fishers for the gift the Lord is giving them. I must admit hearing that description of the development of their baby is absolutely amazing. I am pumped about being a pseudo uncle to Fisher Jr.

On another, missiological note, I read an awesome blog from Ed Stetzer the other day. Here is the link.

To summarize, he talks about Movemental Christianity. It is an exciting and challenging idea in the realm of missions and church planting in America. He draws from David Garrison's book "Church Planting Movements" which is a discussion of Church Planting movements around the world. A Church Planting Movement (CPM) is a rapid growth of the church across a people group where many people come to Christ and many churches are planted by indigenous people. Stetzer believes if something like this was to happen in the West it would look a bit different than it does in the third world countries.

Stetzer presents 10 elements that he thinks would be present if a Movement was to occur in the west. The reason I point you to this is that this is the prayer John and I for Fargo. Our hope is not to plant a single church, but to see the entire region within the reach of Fargo-Moorhead would be transformed by the Gospel. I encourage you to read the article and pray God would start something like this in Fargo and all across the US.