Like Links in a Chain: Stepping out in Mission

What is your next step as part of God’s mission?

Philippians 1:6

Never underestimate the effect of your 'little' part in God’s mission when you step out with Him.

In 1858, a Sunday School teacher, Mr Kimball, led a shoe clerk Dwight L. Moody to give his life to Christ. Moody became an evangelist who awakened evangelistic zeal in the heart of Fredrick B. Meyer, pastor of a small church. FB Meyer brought to Christ J. Wilbur Chapman. Chapman, engaged in YMCA work, employed Billy Sunday to do evangelistic work.

In 1934, Billy Sunday held a revival in Charlotte, North Carolina. Locals then planned another crusade with evangelist Mordecai Hamm during which a young man named Billy Graham yielded his life to Christ. Thank God for faithful Sunday school teachers!

There was also another person, name unknown, who played a critical role that night. Teenager Billy Graham and his friend looked in at the meeting but there were no spare seats, so they walked away. However, an usher saw them and called them back, assuring them he would get them seats next to each other. The usher went and asked folk to move along and the teenagers sat next to each other. That night, they heard the gospel and made their decision to follow Jesus Christ.

“Just a Sunday school teacher” and “just an usher” were used by God in critical ways to contribute to bringing about the conversion of arguably the world’s greatest evangelist, like links in a chain.

Never underestimate the effect of your 'little' part in God’s mission when you step out with him.

Actually, what is your next step as part of God’s mission?

John Peterson