Sharing the Peace of Jesus

If there's a city in the United States that needs to experience true peace, it's New Orleans. Actually, they all do, but I live here and am therefore daily confronted with this need. From neighbors that live in anxiety due to illness to those that live in fear because of their street-thug lifestyle. From the angry driver on the interstate to the angry resident protesting on the steps of City Hall. From the elderly women too afraid to go outside her house to the mother still grieving the loss of her two year old son who was murdered by a father no longer wanting to pay child support. The New Orleans area is messed up because of one thing and one thing only – sin. The drugs, the violence, the poverty, the poor education, and so on have their root in the fact that people sin and that sin ruins everything. In other words, the problems in New Orleans are, to quote Blind Willie Johnson, “nobody’s fault but mine.”

With an equal share of the blame and monopoly on the truth, The Church is the only group in position to reach beyond itself and offer a viable solution that strikes at the heart of the problem. This is what Sharing the Peace of Jesus is all about. Its aim is to turn The Church loose on the New Orleans area to pray for each household in the city, share the Gospel with each person in the city and then gather in the harvest from what the Holy Spirit has done through these efforts.

Over the next few weeks, I’ll be going through the four milestones of Sharing the Peace of Jesus: praying, engaging, sowing, harvesting, and explaining how our churches intend to fulfill each aspect of this strategy.

Check out this video to learn more about our strategy.