About Reaching Europe
Reaching Europe is an out of the box approach to church planting that arose from both personally seeing the great need for the Gospel to be spread and to encourage missionaries labouring alone on the field of service.
The goals of Reaching Europe are:
1) Edify Christ in obeying the Great Commission by going,
2) Equip the missionaries on the field with gospel literature in the language of the people they serve.
3) Encourage the established missionary who is often isolated by location, time, and lack of local fellow Christians.
4) Engage with the local church in going to Europe and helping reach people with the gospel. Church planting can not happen if souls are not reached.
5) Establish local churches by teaching and training the nationals.
The goals of Reaching Europe are:
1) Edify Christ in obeying the Great Commission by going,
2) Equip the missionaries on the field with gospel literature in the language of the people they serve.
3) Encourage the established missionary who is often isolated by location, time, and lack of local fellow Christians.
4) Engage with the local church in going to Europe and helping reach people with the gospel. Church planting can not happen if souls are not reached.
5) Establish local churches by teaching and training the nationals.
Most importantly, the goal is church planting.
For the most part, a missionary goes to a country, picks a city, and ministers primarily in that city. This is wonderful, but unfortunately, the reach of the missionary is limited by ministry and life's daily activities. Reaching Europe can partner with them to go where they can not and set off a gospel explosion.
Remember the pattern that Paul used? He would witness, and a person or whole households accepted Christ as Saviour resulting in churches planted. This is the heart of Reaching Europe: to see more. More churches planted faster. More dynamic church planting outreaches. More productive than the standard “one-city” approach. More effective. More involved. Reaching Europe is a church planting movement. The “GO” in “go ye therefore” is a cry for missions to be proclaimed. Reaching Europe is a plan for faster church planting through faster gospel witness opportunities.
Friends, we can not have more churches without more people accepting Christ. Think about those who have never heard the truth once, while we sit and hear the truth over and over again. To reach Europe, workers are needed. We can not have churches planted without church planters going.
As teams of church members from all across America go to Europe, my prayer is that "my eye affecteth mine heart," and the Holy Spirit will place a burden for more workers in Europe. Church planting requires church planters.
Following the Great Commission's path, step one is "Go." Reaching Europe's aim is to help many others GO to Europe.
Remember the pattern that Paul used? He would witness, and a person or whole households accepted Christ as Saviour resulting in churches planted. This is the heart of Reaching Europe: to see more. More churches planted faster. More dynamic church planting outreaches. More productive than the standard “one-city” approach. More effective. More involved. Reaching Europe is a church planting movement. The “GO” in “go ye therefore” is a cry for missions to be proclaimed. Reaching Europe is a plan for faster church planting through faster gospel witness opportunities.
Friends, we can not have more churches without more people accepting Christ. Think about those who have never heard the truth once, while we sit and hear the truth over and over again. To reach Europe, workers are needed. We can not have churches planted without church planters going.
As teams of church members from all across America go to Europe, my prayer is that "my eye affecteth mine heart," and the Holy Spirit will place a burden for more workers in Europe. Church planting requires church planters.
Following the Great Commission's path, step one is "Go." Reaching Europe's aim is to help many others GO to Europe.