Be a part of this exciting Ablaze! movement. Join us for 50 Days Ablaze! Sign up to be part of a small group using the sign-up form at the church office.
To read the daily devotions you can:
- Return to this site each day, beginning on March 23rd.
- You can register to have the devotions sent to your email address each day.
- Select the RSS Feed in the upper corner of the 50 Days Ablaze page
New to St Lorenz Website? To Register click on the word “Register” in the "Sign Up" Box of the 50 Days Ablaze page.
Already have an account? Login to your existing Stlorenz.org account, and check the sign up box.
The vision of the LC-MS Ablaze! initiative is to encourage every member of the LCMS to be personally and actively involved in Christ’s mission, to be used by the Holy Spirit to ignite the hearts of 100 million unreached or uncommitted people worldwide with the love of Christ by the 500th anniversary of the Reformation in 2017.
The vision of igniting a worldwide mission movement to share the Gospel is expressed by the word, Ablaze! and with the theme verse from Luke 24:32,“Were not our hearts burning within us while He talked with us on the road and opened the Scriptures to us?”
Ablaze! is not a program. It’s a movement. It’s an invitation for each congregation to develop models and resources for equipping their members to share the Gospel where they work and live and serve. It is an opportunity for the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod to be united in carrying out Christ’s Great Commission.
As LCMS World Mission cast the vision for Ablaze!, they shared seven biblical mission responses – seven ways for all of us to respond to the Good News and to be fully engaged in personal mission involvement. These seven mission responses are: Learn, Pray, Give, Tell, Send, Go and Celebrate.
50 Days Ablaze! is a journey for our congregation members to grow in their awareness and understanding of Christ’s Great Commission. The focus is on spiritual growth and increased missions and outreach. The emphasis is on Christ’s grace and redeeming love for us.
Participation in 50 Days Ablaze! is three-tiered. Members spend individual time reading daily devotions, which will be found at this site beginning on Easter Sunday, March 23rd. Members also gather for congregational worship services and meet weekly in small group Bible studies, beginning the week of March 30th. The weekly theme for each of these elements is based on one of the seven mission responses above.
Be a part of this exciting Ablaze! movement. Join us for 50 Days Ablaze! Sign up to be part of a small group using the sign-up form at the church office.
To read the daily devotions you can return to this site each day, beginning on March 23rd. Or you can register to have the devotions sent to your email address each day. To register for email click on the word “Register” on the left side of this page.
As we grow in our faith and reach out with the Gospel of salvation to all people, may God be glorified in all that we do.