I told the church this is how you should be about what you have received through the power of the Word. Keeping things simple is to understand we must be fruitful or be a fire. Now this may be one of those things where you had to be there, but I think it struck home. The brethren verbally responded with a lot of Luo language being spoken among themselves. The following week we visited an older established church from which faithful men have arisen.
People are the church.
I preached on the fact that the Cross of Christ must go forward. I used Simon of Cyrene who was pressed into service to carry the cross at the crucifixion as an example that our God needs us to help carry His Cross. Today we have a choice between comfortable Christianity or a crucified life. They were hearers of the Word and I encouraged them to also be doers. God still blesses people and these fourteen were blessed by having their sins washed away by the blood of the ONE who died on the Cross.