Bring Back America's Rural Churches!
A lot of us want to do great things for the Lord. But great doesn't necessarily mean big.
We're all familiar with Jesus' parable of the lost sheep, in which a man leaves his 99 sheep to find the one that is missing. But a lot of pastors today, in their understandable passion to minister to the 99, have left the one all alone. I speak of the forgotten sheep of rural America.
The great missionary statesman William Carey once said, "To know the will of God, we need an open Bible and an open map." And the open maps of today are telling us that there is a massive shift to the cities from the countryside. Operation World points out that the global share of people living in urban areas has shot up from 13 percent in 1900 to above 50 percent today.
Read more at: http://www.christianpost.com/news/reviving-the-churches-of-rural-america-201941/
