Please Pray for Churches Today

I would like to ask you to pray for other churches today. I know that I always ask for prayer for this church.

And we need it now more than ever. So I’m not asking you to take some of your prayers “away” from Parkview and direct them elsewhere. :)

I’m asking you to add some extra prayer for the churches all around the world.

I just know that there are some churches that especially need our prayers this weekend. And some church leaders.

The church in many parts of the world is living in persecution and people are being killed for going to church. Pray for the persecuted church.

The church in many parts of the world is run by people who don’t get it. They are Pharisees’ who are keeping the prodigals from Jesus. And many of them have leaders in them who are suffering trying to change all of that.

The church in some places have pastors and leaders who are the problem. They are working against God by the sin in their lives, or the attitudes they portray.

Some churches are just having a tough time for no other reason than that Satan has worn them down. There are pastors and leaders who are worn down.

Please pray for them. Pray for the great churches and the ones that aren’t so great. Because the bottom line is that the Church is still the “Bride of Christ.”

Jesus died for his Bride. He loves his church so much. It hurts him when he sees it divided, worn out, persecuted, or just stuck.

I love being a part of this church. I guess I just sometimes feel like we have so much of God’s blessing here, and there are so many who don’t see it or feel it.

Pray for all of them for a moment – and NEVER leave us out of your prayers.

Praying for you,
Tim

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Comments

[Paula]

Thanks Pastor Tim, for your leadership and vision. As we pray for the Bride of Christ, and All Churches, including those not yet planted, we are Blessed to be a part of His Perfect Plan. GOD is GOOD! :)

[Pastor Ken Dignan]

As a local pastor in the Orland Park, IL area, Eagle Rock Community Church, I so appreciate Pastor Tim encouraging Parkview church to pray for the other churches.

There are definitely more non-Christians than Christians. There are differently more people not going to church on the week-ends than are.

We can never have too many good, Bible believing, salvation by grace through faith in the cross of Christ, preaching churches to go around.

Congratulations to Parkview for their successful growth in the past 4 or 5 years.

May we all continue to work together as the family of God to help the lost in the Chicago area so we can minister to America and the world. Jesus did tell all His followers to "Go into all the world and preach the gospel, teaching them to apply and understand all God has said." Matthew 28:19-20.

May we find ways to partner together to impact our suburbs. Please pray for Eagle Rock Community Church to grow as we head in to a new building program in Homer Glen, this spring.

God Bless,
Pastor Ken Dignan

[Eric]

this post just reminds me of one of the reasons I have been so thankful for Parkview. Before I came here I was constantly being depressed at how there seemed to be no really good church in the SW suburbs that was really solid and that God was really blessing in such a way that many people were being reached and whose growth wasn't temporary or that didn't shipwreck at some point. I found Parkview and realized that was the church God had chosen. But thanks Pastor Tim for the encouragement to pray for other churches. THere are many other churches in our own area with servants of Jesus Christ who could really be encouraged by what God is doing at Parkview and would be greatly blessed by our prayers.