Though we may serve in different capacities, if you’re born-again, you’ve been saved to serve. You are ‘ipso facto’ from the time of spiritual conception or conversion. But is your local church using you?
A large portion of my born-again Christian social media friends are in need of a Biblical healthy local church (they’re scattered sheep). If you’re one of them, perhaps this testimony will encourage you. Once Justin Trevino realized that his church (former) was unbiblical, he was at a crossroads. There were no healthy churches near him.
Many believe that a healthy church must be planted by another church. Though that would be better in most cases, it is not necessary in all. People were getting saved under his evangelism, and they needed a pastor, history tells the rest of the story.
For the purposes of this blog post I will call the church we visited “This church.” Recently my wife and I were searching for a new church closer to home. While we were visiting churches, we had heard of a newly planted church here in Redlands, that being [name snipped]. This church was a church