I am becoming more and more aware of the mission field that God has brought to us in the U.S. We no longer have to travel long distances and go to foreign countries to find people who have never heard the Gospel. God has brought nations of people to us! Right here in my own relatively small community (approximately 60K people), we have people from Mexico, India, Asia, Europe, etc. Just a little further out, there is a major university where even more nations of people are represented.
Every day we are among people who have doubts, are skeptical, totally in the dark, or opposed to God. Like no other time in history, we have an opportunity to spread the good news globally and defend the Christian faith by simply going into our own communities. We also have access to more tools at our fingertips to help us be prepared to answer questions and skeptics with right doctrine. Yet, data (and personal experience) indicates that more and more people identifying themselves as Christians are less Biblically literate than ever before. This could be why many other countries are sending Christian missionaries to the U.S. to spread the Gospel. God's plan will not be thwarted and THE Church will not be destroyed. If we are unwilling to be a part of the great commission, He will find other willing participants to carry it out, closing doors of local Churches and raising up new ones. False religious organizations and cults certainly spend a lot of time and effort equipping their followers to spread their interpretation of gospel and they find many ill-equipped Christians as targets.
So, with this thought in mind, God has been tugging at me to use technology and the vast resources, skills and talents He's gifted me with to help equip those in my sphere of influence. So today, I announce the beginning of a new blog called Armed With The Sword (swordofthespirit.blogspot.com)
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