Making Disciples, Casting Vision, and Starting Churches

Well I have now been with the IMB for one full year. And what a year it has been. You could most assuredly say, ‘Life changing.’
While I was working in Pine Bluff as a youth minister at Shepherd Hill Baptist, Brother Harold asked me, “what is your vision for the ministry?” At the time I had no idea about vision, so my vision ended up being ‘to get the students just to read their bibles.’ Then I will go from there. That is such a small vision. The same as so many of us have. ‘Just go and tell one person about Jesus.’ And that is the extent of our vision. But since that time I have seen another vision. That vision is Matthew 28:18-20. Make disciples, who make disciples that will go out and plant churches. This process continues on and on. More people come to know Jesus and more churches start. Not a mega church, which by the example it has shown is not working, but a house church. A church that is vital and going to tell others about Jesus.
We arrived back from a training only a few days ago. At that training we gave them a vision. The vision was to start 44,000 churches. Do you think that is possible? I do. I know it is possible. Cause God does the impossible. They needed that many churches to see everyone in their district of 2.2 million people to be apart of a church. And so we taught toward that vision. Luke 10, John 4, Matthew 28:18-20 and 2 Timothy 2:2, and Acts 2:38-47. From just those passages we see a vision on how God can use us to start 44,000 churches. To multiply leaders. By the way, if they needed 44,000 churches, then they also needed 44,000 leaders. And that is the minimum they need. So who are those leaders going to be - The church. Who is the church? Acts 2:38-41 - those who repent and believe and are baptized. Those who are recognized as a member. A simple believer is the leader, 1 Peter 2:9. We are all the royal priest.
So why do we say things like this or that person is not ready? Are we the ones who are to decide that or is it the Holy Spirit in them? When we catch onto a vision, that God has given us and we see in the book of Acts, then we will see God move in a way we have never seen before.
So this is only a little of what I have learned in my time here in India. And it has changed my life. Being able to go and teach people and then seeing them understand the vision. It encourages me that God is at work. And it makes me stop and ask, how much am I trusting God?