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Originally Posted by Freedom
Recently, I have been seeing Facebook posts about LSM sending FTTA trainees to Germany to contact Syrian refugees. LCers are told that this is the Lord's latest 'move' (and they also claim that the Lord is ready to 'recover' Stuttgart from what happened 30 years ago). I laugh when I read this kind of stuff because it is clear how ridiculous it all is. If the Lord were really doing something through their work, they would be able to tell of more than these detailed LC-style stories involving how they met a person or two who is 'open' to the ministry. People are not flocking to the LC in the masses like they expect.
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The LSM church that I am at recently announced a goal to increase the number of saints to [X] by Year [Y]. The goal was ambitious.
At the Lord's table meeting, it was acknowledged by a leading brother that "humanly speaking" it would be difficult, but that "with God all things are possible". (Later, there was also the usual mantra on how the goal could be attained if everyone functions and commits to shepherding for [z] number of people a year.)
I remembered thinking to myself that while the goal was ambitious, I could see it realised if there was a big game-changer such as my country agreeing to accept large numbers of Syrian refugees. The church could target these refugees. I would think that the refugees would be open to meeting new people. After all, if you are a refugee and are new in a country, you would be eager to meet the local communities. A free meal (such as a love feast) would help to bring them in too, at least for the short term.
Anyway, these thoughts are academic because my country isn't committing to accepting refugees, and knowing the LSM, it is not in their modus operandi to lobby the government to accept refugees; the LSM-ers don't like to engage in active citizenship.