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Sample the Ablaze! Resources |
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| Ablaze!® began as a vision of LCMS World Mission to involve every member of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod, its partner church bodies, and partner mission agencies in one focused and concentrated effort to share the Good News of Jesus Christ with those who do not yet know Him. (Read more about the LCMS World Mission vision for Ablaze!)
By joining together in this effort, not only would those who hear and receive the message of salvation in Christ be transformed by it and brought into the body of Christ, but our own church bodies, mission organizations and congregations would be strengthened as members grow in discipleship through mission involvement.
LCMS World Mission places strong emphasis on witnessing to “unreached” or “uncommitted” people—those who are not already believers in Jesus Christ.
- “Unreached” people are those who have never heard a clear message in the name of Jesus.
- “Uncommitted” is a term that describes people who have had an opportunity to hear the Good News of Jesus, but who do not have faith in Jesus as their Lord and Savior.
Individual Christians and individual LCMS congregations are “people ablaze” each in their own unique way. In our work together as the Northern Illinois District LCMS, we focus on a strategy of New Starts…New Believers, because new starts are proving to be the places here that are most effective in gathering unreached and uncommitted people.
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