Think Global.

I often live my life with my head conveniently buried in the sand.  My reality is what's right in front of me and if I don't look past that, I turn a blind eye to the problems in the world.  What's also true is that I am also turning a blind eye to the potential opportunity and purpose God is placing right before my eyes.

Rob Wegner has led the charge at Granger in expanding our vision of a global reach as a church.  While we can't "save the world" we can focus on a particular place to bring "up there down here" and thanks to technology, we can actually bring "over there (India)" right here (Indiana, USA or any other part of the world).

To get a taste of this in case you missed it, watch it with others here at 12:00, 6:30, or 8:30 EST today (August 8th) or catch it on demand later this week here.  A few notes:

• Every generation has the opportunity to make a historic "intervention"
• "Extreme Poverty" :   1.4 billion people live on less than $1.25 per day
• We are in a generation where we can eliminate extreme poverty- we have the means and technology to get it done
• Granger has been investing in this area of India for several years now, training leaders, drilling wells, building homes and churches
• "No longer do we think of ourselves as the people of darkness, but now view ourselves as the people of the Light"- quote from a changed life in India
• Dec 26, 2004 the deadly tsunami hit- at that point we had been there for about 3 years... we were contacted by multiple organizations to help- same force as 23,000 Hiroshima equivilent bombs
• Imagine a tsunami that when it recedes, poverty is wiped out, people have hope in Christ, and all disease is wiped out- this is the new Heaven and new Earth we get to look forward to...
• It starts with small interventions-  it starts with a cup of water, a small gift, a helping hand

If you had the means to feed 10 people in your country or 50 in another, which would you choose?  If the same investment of funds could grow your local church 20% or grow a movement overseas 200%, which would you choose?  In God's economy, it's yes and yes.  In looking at our individual purposes here on earth, we need to think  global purpose with a global church carrying out God's global plan.  Think Global.  The world has gotten much smaller.

Let's connect on Twitter or Facebook!  Mark Meyer