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Empty Chair at United Baptist Taylor

 

On this Pentecost Sunday, Pastor Paul Fields and the congregation of The United Baptist Church of Taylor put prayer banners throughout the sanctuary to remind the members to pray for their empty seats ... not so much to get people INTO THE PEWS, but rather get their own people OUT OF THE PEWS and into their community, being Holy Spirit led to keep divine appointments and strike up spiritual conversations in the hope of connecting people with Christ and in turn connecting people with the Taylor congregation and thus filling the empty pews for which they are praying.  This prayer initiative is part of an intentional, church wide study of sharing our personal faith based on the principles in the book, Got Style?, written by Dr. Jeff Johnson, our Regional Pastor for Congregations and our ABC National Director of Evangelism.  Also, these are prayers of expectation in preparation for the Abington Association revival this fall.


Categories: General, Ministries, Region Life ~ Date: 6/17/2014
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