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15 ways why we don’t see harvest

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Why don’t we see a Church Planting Movement yet in the West, while in other continents millions are coming to Christ? Felicity shares 15 points why we don’t see a big harvest. Here are a few of them: lack of apostolic passion, we don’t GO to the people, we don’t have a vision of making disciples and there is a lack of training. Continue reading to learn more!

Here are some reasons why we may not see the kind of harvest we long for:

1. We are so involved with other believers we do not have time for friendship with those who do not yet know Jesus.
2. We are fearful of being “contaminated” by too much contact with the world.
3. Lack of the “apostolic mission” part of simple church DNA.
4. Lack of prayer for the harvest.
5. Lack of training.
6. We do not “go and make disciples.”
7. We are fishing in the wrong place, or to change metaphors, we are seeking to reap a harvest where either the fields are not yet ripe or little/no seed has been sown.
8. We invite people to come to our church.
9. When someone becomes a Christian, we extract them from their community to join ours.
10. We fail to work through a “person of peace.”
11. We are not preaching the gospel of the kingdom
12. Lack of the supernatural.
13. Sequentialism
14. We do not train the new believer to pass on his story and what he is learning to his friends.
15. We scatter rather than gather.

Source: Felicity Dale