outreach | church planting | compassion

Outreach: Church Planting

“Every church contains the seeds for other churches. The local church was meant to reproduce itself over and over again. As a healthy plant forms seeds that when planted bring forth other plants, so healthy churches form seeds that produce other churches. There is a price to be paid for the planting of that seed. But there is a far greater price to pay if the seed is not planted.”

Keith Biely. Missionary Alliance (1981)

Learn more about  New Life’s Church Planting efforts.

Outreach: Compassion

The parable of the Good Samaritan itself introduces the desire in God’s heart that we reach out to help those in need who are different than us.  For the Christian, anyone in need is our neighbor. Jesus uses a Samaritan in the story because the Jews looked down on them as foreigners and spiritually misled.  But it is the Samaritan in the story that cares for the one in need, not the priest or the Levite.  In Leviticus 19:33, in the midst of numerous commands including showing respect to the elderly and using honest scales, Moses quotes the Lord as saying, “When foreigners reside among you in your land, do not mistreat them. The foreigners residing among you must be treated as your native-born. Love them as yourself, for you were foreigners in Egypt. I am the Lord your God.”  And Jesus while speaking on the judgment of the sheep and the goats in Matthew 25:31-46, says, “ ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you, or thirsty and give you something to drink?  When did we see you a stranger and invite you in, or needing clothes and clothe you?  When did we see you sick or in prison and go to visit you?’  The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’”

Learn more about New Life’s growing Compassion and Justice Ministries.