Col 1-2

"All over the world this gospel is bearing fruit and growing, just as it has been doing among you since the day you heard and understood God's grace in all its truth." v 1:6

All over the world, the gospel is bearing fruit? Is that still true? I can assure you it is.

This summer alone I know of over 15 missions trips through just people I know personally going to countries around the world with this message of hope in God, hope in Christ. To places like Peru, Nigeria, Rwanda, Niger, Uganda, North Africa, East Asia, India, Gateway, Mukti, Benin, Haiti, Guatemala, Northern Quebec,  Northern Ontario, even Montréal and Toronto. I've heard stories of hundreds of people coming to know Christ for the first time, and hundreds of people coming to truly understand what they've heard before in a church meant in their own lives.

Now if you think it's only Canadians and Americans doing missions, you are way off. I have personally seen local churches with a heart for their country in Haiti where teachers and construction workers have a passion for sharing Christ. I have heard stories of girls in Uganda when they accept Christ within a matter of weeks their family and their maid has accepted Christ and are now telling their friends, I know students from Asia who are going to the Middle East with the gospel, fathers who grew up in a muslim country now raising a family and living out each day to stand firm in God despite having to swim against the current.

The church is not just you and me, but the each and every one whom God has called out of the world. People from every tribe, nation, culture, tongue, every one. So, be encouraged, God's got this plan going. And each of us can play a part in some way as we ask God to use us.

But here's a question: What does it mean to understand God's grace in all its truth? Is that even possible? To fully understand the grace of God?