A pioneer is willing to risk all that is for all that could be. They are compelled by a dream to go to a place they’ve never been and to a land they’ve never seen.
Acts 1:6-8, Therefore, when they had come together, they asked Him, saying, “Lord, will You at this time restore the kingdom to Israel?” And He said to them, “It is not for you to know times or seasons which the Father has put in His own authority. But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.”
It was pioneers that paved the way for where we are today.
Jesus gave the early Christians a pioneeringvision of taking the gospel to all nations and future generations! That’s the reason 2000 years later the movement Jesus started that changed the world is still changing lives!
This pioneering vision that demands multiplication is called the Great Commission. Like the early church, we are launching new gatherings in new places to reach new people.
To be pioneers, we must relinquish the security of being settlers. For impossibilities to become realties, we must live dangerously with a faith that is risky.
A faith that costs nothing will accomplish nothing. A faith that demands nothing will do nothing.
Luke 9:23, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, take up his cross daily, and follow Me.”
Pioneers are people of conquest. Like the early pioneers of Christianity, God has set before us an open door!
Revelation 3:7-8, “And to the angel of the church of Philadelphia write, ‘These things says He who is holy, He who is true, He who has the key of David, He who opens and no one shuts, and shuts and no one opens: I know your works. See, I have set before you an open door, and no one can shut it; for you have a little strength, have kept My word, and have not denied My name.’”
Pioneers leave a permanent mark and a trail for others to follow. When your life is over, will anyone be able to tell you were ever here?