{"id":7646,"date":"2013-12-19T01:00:07","date_gmt":"2013-12-19T09:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.doorposts.com\/blog\/?p=7646"},"modified":"2013-12-18T16:57:07","modified_gmt":"2013-12-19T00:57:07","slug":"small-seeds-of-faithfulness-grow-into-large-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.doorposts.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/19\/small-seeds-of-faithfulness-grow-into-large-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Seeds of Faithfulness Grow into Large Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last month, I had the honor of spending two weeks with Pastor Sujoy and his family in India. I and the others on my mission team worked beside him teaching computer and English classes, caring for kids, teaching them about the Bible, and sharing the gospel with villagers in the beautiful Sundarban Islands.<\/p>\n

\"pastor-sujoy-2\" Pastor Sujoy, a stocky, serious, yet cheerful man, is the driving force behind multiple Christian ministries in West Bengal. He\u2019s the pastor of Grace Community Church. He also leads the Grace Community Centre, which includes a Bible academy, music academy, computer academy, and a day care ministry. He leads translation and publishing projects, most notably the first-ever Bengali hymnal with musical notation, which he and his wife recently finished. Every year he leads mission groups like ours on outreach trips to the villages to share the gospel. I could also see that he loves his wife and three daughters very much. He works hard to spread God\u2019s love, but he\u2019s humble enough to give God all the credit for the work that is being done.<\/p>\n

I also met Pastor Sujoy\u2019s brother, Pastor Sukrit. I learned that Grace Community Church is one church in a network of 130 churches that have been planted in India<\/strong> in the last 25 years through Sukrit\u2019s organization, Christ Mission Ashram<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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At dinner one evening, I asked Pastor Sujoy how he became a Christian. I thought maybe he would tell me about meeting a missionary or going through a some other conversion experience as a young man. Instead, I learned that both of these brothers are fourth-generation Christians, raised by Christian parents. Their father was an elder in the church, and it was their great-grandfather<\/strong> who was converted by Christian missionaries about one hundred years ago. He responded to the gospel message and passed on the faith to his own children, resulting in three successive generations of faithful Christians.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s amazing how small seeds planted in Christ\u2019s kingdom can grow into large trees<\/a>. One missionary went to India with the gospel. One man\u2019s heart was changed. He loved and taught his children, who again loved and taught their children, who are now pastors and evangelists serving and preaching in the name of Christ. Thousands of people have now been touched because of what one missionary did, and because of what one father and mother taught their children.<\/p>\n

When we\u2019re faithful to God, He can accomplish things through us that we could never even imagine.<\/strong> We can be part of God\u2019s enormous plan for redeeming the world if we will faithfully serve Him, and if we will faithfully point our children to Christ, trusting Him with the results.<\/p>\n

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