Just received this!
Dear Steve
I
wanted to let you know how much your Luke 10 Manual has completely
screwed us up. It is a dangerous little book, like a suitcase nuke that
unexpectedly and completely wiped out our comfortable version of
Christianity. One thing that always stuck with me from the manual was
that the harvest IS ready, it IS ripe, and we are to just obey and go….
but for a while I asked myself, “Is it REALLY that simple?”
We
got an idea last November. My wife, four kids, and I went and bought
50 breakfast tacos from a local restaurant and then drove to an
apartment complex in our area. We went door to door asking folks if
they’d like a free breakfast taco? Most people said yes, and then after
we handed them the taco we asked if there was anything we could pray for
them about before we moved to the next door? To our surprise, most
people took a taco, and most people let us pray for them. For those who
couldn’t think of anything specific, we just prayed a general prayer of
blessing over their lives asking GOD to bless them and give them the
desires of their heart.
Afterwards,
we waited 2 weeks and then went back to follow-up with them and see
what GOD did. We have been AMAZED at how God has worked in their lives —
we have seen a broken thumb completely healed, people open up their
homes to us to begin Discovery Bible Studies, people have accepted
Christ as their Lord and Savior right on their front doorstep, barren
women have become pregnant — just amazing testimonies that “the lost”
are attributing directly to God and the power of Jesus.
We
live in a county of 163,000 people of which 104,000 have no affiliation
to a religious community or faith based group. We have begun mapping
out the entire county, everywhere there is an apartment complex, and our
plan now is to go to every door armed with a breakfast taco, prayer for
the lost, in the power of the Holy Spirit who eagerly desires to bring
forth evidence of a risen LORD.
What
began as an "experimental Luke 10 outreach" has emerged into very
specific and strategic action to reach an entire county for Christ.
We are also harvesting new workers from the harvest field who immediately obey the commands of Jesus.
So, all this to say, you were correct: it really IS that simple! Just obey and go.
Thank you. :)
Gabe
(Gabes
has given his permission for us to publish this and also to share his
name and email if any of you should like to connect with him at landes.gabe@gmail.com . You can order a hard copy of the Luke 10 Manual from www.lulu.com or there are free downloads of the manual in 14 languages on our site at www.harvest-now.org)
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