{"id":6241,"date":"2017-04-18T08:14:35","date_gmt":"2017-04-18T13:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/faithlens\/?p=6241"},"modified":"2017-04-16T15:23:46","modified_gmt":"2017-04-16T20:23:46","slug":"april-23-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/faithlens\/april-23-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"April 23, 2017–Belief, Doubt, Certainty"},"content":{"rendered":"

Angie Larson, Clive, IA<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Warm-up Question<\/strong><\/p>\n

How did you come to believe in Jesus?<\/p>\n

Belief, Doubt, Certainty<\/strong><\/p>\n

GlobeServe Ministries in Ghana, West Africa has been expanding at an amazing rate.\u00a0 The organization has been in existence for twenty years and started out with a passion to go to villages where there are no churches and share with them the love of God.\u00a0 GlobeServe started in the small town of Adidome and had five people for their first worship service. According to Rev. Samuel Kofi Dunya, the head of GlobeServe, they are now planting a church in rural northern Ghana and in the northern Volta region every four days and there is talk about moving into surrounding Burkina Faso and Togo as well.\u00a0
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GlobeServe operates on the belief that, as neighboring communities see and hear about the difference a church and Christian leaders are making in one village, they will ask that it be done in their communities too.\u00a0 They see the change in their neighbors even though they are not sure what is causing it. Rev. Dunya said, \u201cThe chiefs come and say to me, we want that for our community too. It\u2019s God who opens the doors. They do not know what it means to have a church and faith in Jesus, but they invite us in and they are changed.\u201d Each week GlobeServe churches have approximately 63,000 worshippers, most of whom had never heard of Jesus before.\u00a0 \u201cThey keep asking and we keep going,\u201d says Rev. Dunya, \u201cit\u2019s amazing what the Spirit can do with the unbeliever.\u201d In Ghana many are coming to faith in Jesus and peace is growing between villages because people\u00a0 see what God does in the lives of those who believe.<\/p>\n

Discussion Questions<\/strong><\/p>\n