Paul says that when he heard about the church at Ephesus, he immediately started praying for them. He praised God that they existed and prayed for God to help them survive as a church. How amazing it must have been to be so excited about the creation of a small gathering of believers. I've never really experienced that. We almost have a glut of churches in our society.
Everywhere I turn there's a church of one kind or another. Most are some flavor of Christianity, but some are for other things. The point being that if one went away or another appeared it really wouldn't impact me very much. Even if I heard of a new church in some distant land where there were not very many believers, it probably wouldn't impact me the same as it did Paul. It's just not a significant event in my mind when I've been so de-sensitized to the existence of churches.
My prayer is that I would recognize the struggling churches and the new churches being started all over the world and learn to pray for them and their growth as we all try to live out the Great Commission.
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