Ten Percent - that's the far-out dream of a group of Christians in Dagenham. to see 10 percent of the population of Dagenham be part of the Jesus-worshipping community. this surprised me. you see, when I came to London, i had heard the grim statistics - that less than 10% of the population went to church once a month. but then i found out that in the few square miles surrounding our centre, there are something like 25 evangelical churches. i figured God must be doing something in this burrough that he wasn't in other parts of London.
but then we had a united prayer meeting on Thursday night. i found out from Mike, an anglican pastor with a church building that's 800 years old, that those 25 churches comprise only two or three percent of the population of Dagenham. he pulled me out of my daze and reminded me that there is much work to be done if Jesus is to be exalted as Lord in Dagenham. He wants us to begin praying that God would increase the number of christians in Dagenham to the psychologically significant ten percent mark in the next few years (he gave a target...2015 or something...i don't really remember). This is a crazy dream from where i stand...just the kind of dream i want to jump on board with and pray for, expecting God to show up.
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