Moving to the Land of the Unknown

I think most of you know that after grad school Liz and I will be moving somewhere to begin the church planting process. Now, we don't know exactly what that looks like, but we know we might be moving to an unknown land to reach a community we don't necessarily know. What an exciting thing yet scary at the time.

I was reading in the book of Acts (Book in the Bible dedicated to church history) and the apostle Paul on a whim went to Athens. The Bible said he spoke to the people who were around him about Jesus day in and day out. I noticed something I never saw before, Paul didn't have a specific audience when he went to Athens, he was faithful to the people who were in the area, but then God opened the door to a very specific people group. Paul got to go inside to the heart of their culture where the philosophers hung around all day sharing ideas. His audience all of sudden went from whoever was around to the elite and intellectuals of Athens. He got inside.

I think there is a lesson for me as well as any church planters or anybody who will make a move to an unknown land to fulfill the call of God on there life, even if the people you are reaching is not specific, go, be faithful to the people in front of you, then somehow or another, you will get inside and be standing in front of that specific audience God has prepared for you to serve and love.