| Measuring Success
Start a new ministry, and two of the first, and often hardest, questions that you will be asked are:
Do you know for sure that God wants you to do this?
How will you know if you are being successful?
In this instance, those are two questions for which there are relatively easy answers.
Do we have to wonder if doing Great Commission work is God's will? NO! Fulfilling the Great Commission has always been our task. That much is abundantly clear from God's Word in the Holy Scriptures. Do we (you and I) have to ask God if we are the ones to do this particular work? YES. That is why we placed such a great emphasis on prayer while this plan was being developed. The GCC has been completely saturated and bathed in prayer from day one. Do we know for sure that God wants us (you and I) to do this? YES!!! Short of a booming voice from Heaven telling us to move forward, there is no question that we have been called to undertake this effort. The question has now become, How will we (you and I) respond to God's call?
As far as the process of measuring results is concerned, just know that God has given us (you and I) a job to do. If we will only do as He has instructed, He will provide the results! The GCC is God's work. It is bigger than anything we can accomplish on our own. Therefore, any results that He brings about through the GCC will be counted as great success!
The GCC dreams of the day that worldwide evangelism will be completed. However, we are not setting a specific timeframe or goal to reach this objective. That mark will only be reached in God's time, irrespective of our own goals. Our job according to the Great Commission is to simply to work towards this conclusion to the best of our ability by supporting saturation evangelism and church planting projects worldwide. God has provided all the necessary resources we need to do so. We do not know when the task will be completed, only that it can be. We must act accordingly.
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