A challenge to Christians to re-orientate their whole way of church life around people who need to know Jesus as Saviour and a removing of the traditional barriers between pastors and evangelists, has come from Stephen Gaukroger and Luis Palau.
Stephen, senior minister at Gold Hill Baptist Church as well as a regular Spring Harvest (Word Alive) speaker, and international evangelist Luis, gave the challenge as they toured Britain to share the vision of city and area-wide missions in the Bristol and Bath area, East Midlands and the North West. Luis will be leading the 'There's More to Life!' mission centred on Bristol's Ashton Gate football stadium this coming June, while the East Midlands regional mission will probably take place in 1998.
Dribbling
'We are both committed to the same thing - to see here in Britain a wonderful harvest of men and women coming into the Kingdom of God,' explained Stephen, who is Chairman of the Luis Palau Evangelistic Association European Board. 'Neither of us are satisfied with the sort of dribbles into the Kingdom that we have seen, but we are praying for a tidal wave of people to come to Christ. Many of us will not be satisfied until we have actually seen the power of God break into the secular strongholds of our nation.'
