Last night I stood with the TV camera crew and Pastor Abe Huber on the rooftop of a tall building in Santarem, Brazil. The PAZ congregation has just passed the 50,000 count of cell group members. The PAZ IGREJA owns a TV station, used to direct all 5,000 cells to set off fireworks at the same identical moment across the city.
Wow! All around us to the horizon there were fireworks set off by each cell group. It went on for a full five minutes: crackles and flashes of light everywhere we looked, 360 degrees from that rooftop's view.
Santarem's 250,000 population experiences this public proclamation via fireworks twice each year as the cells give notice of their presence in all of the city's neighborhoods.
In the distance, all lit up, was the huge soccer stadium we will fill Friday and Saturday nights for a gathering of the cells. The seating is a bit smaller than the 60,000 expected, so screens are being set up to project the events to the overflow crowd! I will be preaching on "Psychikos, Sarkikos, Pneumatikos" on Saturday night ("Rejecting God, Rejecting Christ's Lordship, Placing Christ on the Throne). Hundreds of Cell Leaders will be prepared to pray with those who come for salvation or with believers repenting of carnal lifestyles.
I always knew that before the Lord takes me home I would experience a city totally impacted by Christ's Sacred Bodies, the cell groups. I will be smiling in my coffin!
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Rejoicing in God's faithfully blessing of His work in drawing His creation unto Himself. Yes, the work of PAZ is a loud testimony unto our Lord of how He would like to bless if we would give ourselves unto consistent evangelism and discipleship. All glory be unto Him!
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