God saves people into local churches, where we shape one another, especially over the long haul, through the ups and downs of life. Rick Maude has been doing exactly this in the one spot for many years.
Rick chats with us about the challenges of recruiting people, and the joys of centering the gospel in relationships and ministry. In hundreds of local churches, just like Tea Tree Gully, where God has planted Rick, we find that amazing and very ordinary work of God, by his Spirit.
We can easily take for granted how God is shaping us (and who He’s put us with to shape us), but there is value in pausing from time to time and noticing the discipleship happening in local ministry over the long haul.
