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An unknown ex-carpenter starts a ministry, and in less than 2 years, he has 82 people willing to take vacation time from work, going two-by-two village to village, and in a couple weeks, they collect 12,000 people to hear him preach on a hillside. Most of them are so excited, they forget to bring a lunch.
120 people rent a room and start praying. Some strange things, like wind and tongues of fire happen, and in one day, 12 of them are running a 3000 person mega-church in a new denomination no one ever heard of. Within a month, they have a network of home churches set up, and some people are willing to tithe every penny they have in the world to be part of it.
Miracles? We don't think of them that way, but maybe we ought to. The challenge of this thread is to give us a convincing story that they could happen today. With all of our internet, and TV, and satellite based smart-phones, could it be done? Has it been done? Any ministry becoming that big, that fast? Or any voluntary secular institution that big that fast, without the pressure of the law to force it, or the money to buy it, but just on faith or hope alone, in any endeavor?
120 people rent a room and start praying. Some strange things, like wind and tongues of fire happen, and in one day, 12 of them are running a 3000 person mega-church in a new denomination no one ever heard of. Within a month, they have a network of home churches set up, and some people are willing to tithe every penny they have in the world to be part of it.
Miracles? We don't think of them that way, but maybe we ought to. The challenge of this thread is to give us a convincing story that they could happen today. With all of our internet, and TV, and satellite based smart-phones, could it be done? Has it been done? Any ministry becoming that big, that fast? Or any voluntary secular institution that big that fast, without the pressure of the law to force it, or the money to buy it, but just on faith or hope alone, in any endeavor?