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It’s Not a Coincidence!

Randy Bryan — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:05:52 +0000

Steven Furtick is the pastor of Elevation Church in Charlotte, North Carolina. I have been reading his blog lately and you HAVE to read these three articles in order. As a teaser… this past Sunday he baptized 600 people at his church! Yes, I said 600. Each article takes about 30 seconds to read. I believe they are related even though he probably didn’t know it when he wrote them. I almost fell out of my chair from praising God when I read them.

Article from July 22 Who are you preaching to?

Article from July 28 Somebody laughed at me

Article from August 4 The Awakening has Begun

God Bless,
Randy

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God among the street gangs in Detroit

Randy Bryan — Tue, 15 May 2007 08:27:55 +0000

It’s quite a challenge to minister among street gangs in Detroit. It’s certainly not for the faint-hearted! In this article from Joel News, Patrick Ersig reports how God works his miracles in the midst of violence: This week and weekend was truly amazing. Midweek we saw another major gang member repent and give his life … Continue reading God among the street gangs in Detroit

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Bold advance of the church in Indonesia

Randy Bryan — Wed, 07 Mar 2007 10:33:30 +0000

I found the following article at Joelnews.org. Republished with their permission.

In Indonesia, the world’s largest Muslim nation, thousands of new charismatic churches have sprung up. Most of these have a young membership, and there is a growing acceptance of women as leaders.

Indri Gautama, a former businesswoman of Chinese descent, is one of Indonesia’s female church planters. She wants to see her nation transformed by Christ and says: “It seems like 60 percent of the disasters happening in the world are in Indonesia. God has allowed this so we will seek Him.” Her 1,500-member Apostolic Generation Church that began in 2002, feeds hundreds of the city’s poor every week, and it provided significant aid to victims of Jakarta’s recent floods. Gautama believes her calling is to train a new generation of Christian leaders. “We have to be willing to take risks. We must adopt a kingdom attitude.”

National prayer mobilizer Daniel Pandji says that more than 60,000 churches have been planted in Indonesia in recent years – so many that almost every hotel in Jakarta rents out meeting rooms to congregations that don’t have their own buildings. Christians in 500 cities in the country have organized ‘prayer altars’ where believers are storming heaven for a national revival. “It used to be so hard to gather churches together,” Pandji says. “But now we are in a season when churches want to come together for prayer.”

Source: Indri Gautama, Daniel Pandji, Lee Grady

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