Crossway Church and Prayer

"So, what is your church going to be like; how will it be different; what will be your target audience?" These are questions that often come to people's minds when they hear about a new church. No doubt, these are questions that are foundational and important. Even though the verse is used out of context frequently, the fact still remains that "without vision the people perish." We've got to know what we're doing, what we're about.

If you've explored our website a little, you've already gotten a feel for some of our distinctives--just where it is that we're coming from. We love the triune God. We love His Word. We love to see His kingdom expand and more people come to a saving knowledge of the Lord Jesus. We like to answer the question 'who will be your target audience?' by saying, 'Wayne County' or 'all kinds of men, women, boys, and girls who need the gospel.'

But what about a distinctive that often doesn't seem so flashy? I'm talking about prayer. Didn't Jesus himself say that his Father's house was a house of prayer? Does the church have an altogether different agenda than this? We recently took a couple of weeks in our care group meeting to think about this vital issue of prayer and our desperate need of it as we launch Crossway. We considered the prayer of Daniel in Daniel 9, and we thought about how Moses' prayer in Psalm 90 helps us today. These were encouraging studies, but we pray that it will only be the beginning of what will come to be a defining characteristic of Crossway Church in Goldsboro: fervent, prevailing prayer. May God help us to be faithful in this specific joy-filled task that He has called us to.