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The World's Fastest Growing Church Has No Buildings, No Central Leadership, and is Mostly Led by Women: 'God is Moving Powerfully Inside of Iran'

Mark Ellis : Sep 19, 2019  God Reports

"...Jesus has gone faster than us. He has come in their dreams or He's come miraculously in their lives. When we hear this, we know that Jesus has gone ahead of us."

[God Reports] For the last few years, researchers have credited the underground Church in Iran as the fastest growing Christian Church in the world. It has unique characteristics that defy comparison with churches in America and Europe, and in the opinion of some who know it well, the Church in the West could learn by studying it. (Image: Screengrab from-'Sheep Among Wolves' film /via God Reports)

"The fastest growing Church in the world has taken root in one of the most unexpected and radicalized nations on earth," according to "Sheep Among Wolves," the outstanding two-hour documentary about the revival that has taken place inside Iran. "The Iranian awakening is a rapidly reproducing discipleship movement that owns no property or buildings, has no central leadership, and is predominantly led by women."

The documentary was produced by Frontier Alliance International (FAI), which supports disciple-making teams targeting the "unreached" and "unengaged" within the 10/40 Window.

There is a mass exodus leaving Islam for Christianity within Iran, according to FAI.

"What if I told you Islam is dead?" one unidentified Iranian church leader says on the film. "What if I told you the mosques are empty inside Iran? What if I told you no one follows Islam inside of Iran? Would you believe me? This is exactly what is happening inside of Iran. God is moving powerfully inside of Iran."

Many of the ruling class still follow Islam, "because that's where the high paying jobs are," according to the film, but the majority of the ordinary people love God and recognize that Islam is the problem.

"What if I told you the best evangelist for Jesus was the Ayatollah Khomeini?" an Iranian church leader asks. He maintains the ayatollahs brought the true face of Islam to light and people discovered it was a lie, a deception. "After 40 years under Islamic law—a utopia according to them—they've had the worst devastation in the 5,000 year history of Iran."

airliftEfforts by the ayatollahs to destroy Christianity have backfired, but have served to refine and purify the Church. "What persecution did was destroy the Church that were not disciples, and destroy the Church that were about converts," the Iranian church leader noted. "All these church planters found out that converts run away from persecution, but disciples would die for the Lord in persecution. (Image: Screengrab from-'Sheep Among Wolves' film /via God Reports)

"So our model inside Iran is that we don't convert to disciple, we disciple so we can convert."

Often a disciple making movement (DMM) begins the first moment someone comes into contact with an unbeliever. "Everything is foundational on prayer. We find people of peace through prayer. We even find locations through prayer," the Iranian church leader noted.

"When we do DMM, Jesus has gone faster than us. He has come in their dreams or He's come miraculously in their lives. When we hear this, we know that Jesus has gone ahead of us."

Surprisingly, their emphasis is not planting churches; it is making disciples. "He is letting unbelievers lead other unbelievers to Himself and the Kingdom of God. If you plant churches you might make disciples. But if you make disciples, you will plant churches," the Iranian church leader said.

"One thing powerful with DMM is that it is obedience-based discipleship. It is based on the authority of Scripture and every time you read the Scripture you must obey it. This is how people become conformed to the image of Christ and sanctified. They are not just reading the Bible for information. They are reading the Bible to get transformed."

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