One church planter I know of thought he’d show the love of Jesus as he launched so he touched 10,000 people with practical acts of love. As he told me this he thought I would be impressed by this project. I kept waiting for him to finish the story.  After a long uncomfortable pause I asked, ‘Are you finished with your story?’

The ‘Law of Inundation’ says that we must ‘love, serve to the degree that the entire city, area can’t possibly miss the living demonstration of the love of God in a practical way.’

Our plan as we plant on the east side of Tampa?  There are about 500,000 who live in that immediate area, maybe 700,000 who drive through there on a regular basis.  We are going to serve 250,000 on a one-to-one basis over a 5-6 week period.  You may ask ‘How in the world are you going to do that?  With a gigantic team?  That will take all day, every day’  Details to follow, after we’ve done it. Actually we’ve done it before and it wasn’t that hard and didn’t take that long each day.

Let’s work like dogs and cats this week, by the power of God’s Spirit moving through us, to re-configure the image that comes to mind when our neighbors think of the Christians and the Church.