In recent months, God has put it on the hearts of our Elders to pray specifically about three areas where Blue Ridge needs to grow/explore: compassion, missions and church planting. So, for the past few weeks, the staff has spent time getting into God’s Word to see what He has to say about each idea, and then praying for His movement and direction. We don’t know what God has in store, but He is already moving through this.
We would like to invite you into that journey. Below are some of the verses we’ve been reading and praying through, if you would like to join in.
Compassion
Deuteronomy 15:7-8
"If among you, one of your brothers should become poor, in any of your towns within your land that the Lord your God is giving you, you shall not harden your heart or shut your hand against your poor brother, 8but you shall open your hand to him and lend him sufficient for his need, whatever it may be."
Deuteronomy 15:10-11
Psalm 82:1-4
Psalm 140:12
Ezekiel 16:48-49
Luke 4:16-18
Luke 7:21-22
Luke 10:27-37
Luke 16:19-25
Luke 19:8-9
James 1:27
James 2:1-9
James 2:14-18
1 John 3:16-18
Missions
Matthew 24:14
"And this gospel of the kingdom will be proclaimed throughout the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come."
Psalm 96:3
Mark 3:13-14
Mark 16:14-20
Acts 13:1-3
Acts 13:44-49
Acts 16:1-9
Romans 10:13-15
2 Corinthians 5:18-21
1 Thessalonians 2:3-4
Church Planting
Matthew 28:18-20
"And Jesus came and said to them, 'All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age.'”
Acts 4:12-21
Acts 4:29-31
Acts 14:21-23
Romans 15:17-21
1 Thessalonians 1:8
Colossians 1:5-7
Titus 1:5
1 Peter 1:1