Welcome to the blog: Scatter

In the beginning when God created the birds and fish he told them to be fruitful and multiply. He then told this same thing to man later in the chapter. This very thing happened. Then, when Noah came out of the ark, he received the same instruction. This phrase appears several times through Genesis and once in each Exodus, Leviticus, and Deuteronomy and multiply. God wanted them to know something. It was if he was telling them, “Don’t stay in once place.”

Not long after he told Noah to not stay in one place, we see people in a certain place called Shinar (later called Babel) staying in one place. Because of this the Lord “scattered them over the face of the whole earth.” God did not want them staying in one place, but scattering among the whole earth.something. It was if he was telling them, “Don’t stay in once place.”

When the Israelites came to inhabit the Promised Land. They inhabited the whole land, not just Jerusalem. God wanted them scattering among the peoples and cultures in that land bringing God’s blessing to the entire land.

In Acts 8 we see the early church in the first couple chapters in Jerusalem. Then comes a great scattering (dispersion). I love how Luke says it in Acts 8:4, “Those who had been scattered preached the word everywhere they went.” God wanted the message of Christ preached through the whole world. That can only be done through scattering.land, not just Jerusalem. God wanted them scattering among the peoples and cultures in that land bringing God’s blessing to the entire land. In Acts 8 we see the early church in the first couple chapters in Jerusalem. Then comes a great scattering (dispersion). I love how Luke says it in Acts 8:4, “Those who had been scattered preached the word everywhere they went.” God wanted the message of Christ preached through the whole world. That can only be done through scattering."

Where are we in our faith? Are we happy to just sit in our normal pews every Sunday and go through the motions, or do we want God to scatter us through our communities? The hope of this blog is to do just that, to scatter. We hope that this blog will allow us to be open to scattering us. It was never God’s plan to sit in one place, but to “scatter and preach the word everywhere we go.”communities? The hope of this blog is to do just that, to scatter. We hope that this blog will allow us to be open to scattering us. It was never God’s plan to sit in one place, but to “scatter and preach the word everywhere we go.”

The Swango brothers have grown together physically and spiritually. Now, they have been scattered to almost opposite ends of the earth. Though an ocean is between then, this blog is meant to unite them.

We hope you find our lessons, studies, devotionals, and practical applications encouraging as well as convicting. May God bless you as you grow in Him and are scattered to preach His Word.