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God-Empowered Community Transformation
— When the Presence of God so invades a community
that people turn to Christ, church attendance increases,
churches experience dynamic spiritual life, the community
climate shifts toward godliness in its values, poverty
decreases, crime drops, student stay in school, oppression,
lawlessness, and injustice decreases, businesses and
the economy flourish, government corruption disappears
and community and governmental leaders are not only
open to God's presence and prayer, but seek to work
along-side the church for the betterment of the community.
When God-send transformation occurs, even the land and
ecosystem respond with restoration. Transformation is
both an event (God coming in sudden ways) and a process
of change over time as His Presence invades various
spheres of the community. It is measured in the distance
the community moves from darkness to light.
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