I N T R O D U C I N G…
LARGEST
CHURCH
You’ve Never
Heard Of NO PLACE LEFT
With hundreds of thousands of
house churches across 65
countries, countless people
reached and coming to Christ,
and not a single “staff leader
with a title,” No Place Left is one
of the largest, fastest growing,
non-traditional church network
in the world. No Place Left is
not an organization, but
“a movement of movements
aimed at getting to no place
left where Christ is not made
known in our generation. ”The
concept of No Place Left, which
first started circulating the
globe six years ago, is to reach
lost and unreached people
through the Gospel, train and
produce disciples, plant house
churches, and reproduce the
model again and again.
Leaders from churches and ministries
are laying down their titles to join
together to see the Great Commission
of Christ fulfilled and the Kingdom of
God expanded in our city. The group
leading the charge in
San Antonio includes
John Williams, Ben
Hanna, and Nathan
Clark, along with
partnering ministries,
churches, and other
individuals. “Of the
total people living
here, 1.7 million are
lost and don’t know
Christ,” said John.
“What is it going to
take and what would it look like if
the 2.5 million people in the greater
San Antonio area heard the Gospel?”
“San Antonio is a strategic
location, with hundreds of thousands
of people coming to the area for
college, military assignments, work
opportunities, and through immigration,”
said Ben. “God tells us to go to
the nations, but he also brings the
nations to us.”
The group follows a similar mission
to that of the ministry E3 Partners. The
vision is to “Equip God’s people,
Evangelize God’s Gospel, and Establish
healthy, multiplying, and transformative
churches everywhere.” The group
defines “house church” as a church
that can occur anywhere. “We are the
church. A house church can mean
meeting in a house, on a front porch,
The
under a tree in Uganda, or at a
Starbucks,” said Nathan. “If we’re
working toward all of the nine basic
functions of a church outlined in Acts
2, including praise and worship,
prayer, communion,
and so on, we can
identify ourselves as a
church.” The group
estimates it has helped
establish more than
100 house churches in
San Antonio to date.
However, it is
important to note that
the group is not
anti-church. “We are
pro-church, and the
gathering of the Body of Christ, and are
just moving outside of the traditional
ways of meeting,” said John. “We are
excited for what churches are doing and
want to help pastors and churches make
more disciples and plant more churches.”
The disciple-making training, which
varies across the international
network, uses fluid, streamlined tools
meant to cross denominations, and be
simple, biblical, and reproducible. The
training is so easy to understand that
even a child could train it, and they do!
Their youngest “trainer,” Ransom, is
only 8-years old and evangelizes with
his family.
Disciple Makers
Matthew 28:19 (NIV) The Great
Commission: Therefore go and make
disciples of all nations, baptizing them
“ It is hard to express the excitement, freedom and
peace Christ can bring. In sharing with others,
we might trip over our words, leave important
information out or worse yet drive someone further
away from Jesus. No Place Left offers a very clear
and easy way to share the Good News that is
inviting and easy to follow. The training they offer
is transferable and easy to replicate.
The multiplication they desire
happens naturally. It is an honor
for us to support their efforts.”
14 www.saBeacon.com January 2019
Susan Kaars-Sypesteyn,
Proprietor, Third Coast Kitchen
Luke 10:2 – He told them,
“ The harvest is plentiful,
but the workers are few.
Ask the Lord of the
harvest, therefore, to
send out workers into his
harvest field.”
Praying for and commissioning those trained at a Gospel Conversations Training in Dallas.
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