Fruitful Ministry: The Result of the Spirit’s Control

Flowing with spiritual gifts which have been exercised to build up body members, the people of God will reach out to rescue those who perish in their lostness. Every cell group which has experienced the Holy Spirit’s anointing will automatically reach out to others. It is a blight on the family of God to have a Basic Christian Community which occupies itself with itself.

One of the consuming drives of the physical body is the desire to reproduce. In the same way, the healthy body of Christ will be restless until it becomes a part of the army which invades Satan’s domain. “God’s got an army, marching off to war,” is more than a praise song. It’s a philosophy of life for a cell group!

Always, always, the measuring stick for the health of a cell should not be how much they pray or study the Bible, but how much they minister.

In the case of the Abidjan church, Dion Robert’s Zone Pastors do not permit more than a two week period of stagnancy before they step in and ask the Shepherd, “What’s wrong in your group?” Yonggi Cho told how he does the same thing with Zone Pastors. If a zone does not show conversions for a couple of weeks, he says to the pastor in charge, “You go up to Prayer Mountain and fast and pray until God shows you your problem. Something is wrong spiritually, or the cells would be reaching out!”

With such a spirit, the cell group churches can grow at a rate which far exceeds what traditional churches can expect. Wearing the “full armor of God” is intended for soldiers, not sitters!