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I have witnessed how Christians respond in times of personal, local, national or international situations of crisis. Most of the time I came across Christian responding following three ways: 1. We need to repent.  I have absolutely no doubt about the need for repentance in crisis. All the prophets and ministers come up with this message, especially in seasons of crisis. Here are my questions: when you say repent in crisis, do we imply that the crisis is the judgment from God? Can we attribute all the crises to God? Another direction in which I am concerned, why are we preaching aggressively repentance ONLY in the context of crisis. When everything is going fine, do we need repentance? I believe that repentance must be part of our daily devotional life before God. It is not something that we need to preach and think only in the season of crisis. Repentance is an essential part of daily Christian life. Moreover, let us not forget that before we preach repentance to others, we need

It seems to me that sometimes we over emphasize great commission over great commandment of Jesus. The great and first commandment of Jesus: Mark 12:29-31   says 29 Jesus answered, “The most important is, Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 30 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.’ 31 The second is this: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.” (ESV). One thing that should precede great commission is to love God and love people. This is the foundation of everything. Abiding in love means we abide in God (John 15). We need a deep revelation and experience of love of God. If we are not touched and filled with depth of God’s love (cf.Rom. 5.4), then we will not be able to love others. Let us pray that the love of God may increase in us, so that our love for God and people around us may increase. The very foundation o

Acts 1:4-5 4 And while staying with them he ordered them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which, he said, “you heard from me; 5 for John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.” (ESV) Acts 1:8 8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” (ESV) The greatest responsibility that Jesus has given to every disciple is to witness him to people. The scope of our witness includes nations. None of us can grow into witnessing without following what Jesus said as prerequisites for witnessing. To become an effective witness, Jesus revealed some keys here. Waiting in the presence of God We need to regularly wait upon the Lord in prayer, reading Bible and worshipping him. It is a place where we intimately relate with God. Without spending solid time, none of us can recei

John Knox the Scottish Reformer was a mighty man of prayer. He was an instrumental to bring great reform and revival in Scotland.  Here is an example of how he prayed, “O Lord, give me Scotland, or I die !” After a time of stillness, again the cry, “O Lord, give me Scotland, or I die !” Once more deep silence. Then again the cry with more intense pathos, “O Lord, give me Scotland, or I die.” God gave him Scotland. He saved many from wrong faith to real salvation and pure doctrines. Another powerful example for power of prayer is China. It was a communist-atheist country. The churches were closed down and Christians were eradicated from the land. Bible was destroyed. However, believers from the many nations interceded for China, at present the Chinese churches are fastest and rapid growing churches in the world. We limit our prayer often to our personal needs. However, one of the best ways that we can do our ministry to build the Kingdom of God is prayer. Today we will look i

Why we are on this earth?             We are created on this earth by God to fulfil purposes and will of God. It is essential to understand such God’s purpose in our life to find real meaning of life in this earth and eternity. One of the primary purposes of our life in this earth is that we are created to serve or minister to God. Since we are part of the body of Christ, we all have a ministry. At least, every one of us has three important ministries: 1.       Ministry towards God: Our personal relationship with God, worshipping him. 2.       Ministry towards our cobelievers: Mt 22.39; Gal 5.13; Acts 2.42-47; Titus 3.8) 3.       Ministry towards others/world: Ø   Mat 28:19-20: Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age. Ø   Luke 5.10: And Jesus said to Simon, "Do not

[This course is prepared from the book: Bill Hybels and Mark Mittelberg, Becoming A Contagious Christian (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1994). It also used course materials developed by   http://www.xaatuva.com based on the above book] Contents 1.        WHY BECOME CONTAGIOUS CHRISTIAN? . 4 1.1 People Matters to God .. 4 Who is a Contagious Christian? . 4 Why we are not able to become a contagious Christian? . 4 What is God’s heart for the lost? . 4 What are the three common themes in the parable seen in Lk 15? . 4 Guiding thought: 5 1.2 Rewards of Contagious Christianity . 5 Personal Benefits . 5 The cost of contagious Christianity . 5 Guiding Thought 5 1.3 Formula for impacting your world .. 5 What are the functions of salt? . 5 What are the functions of light? . 6 The Formula to Impact the World .. 6 Guiding Thought 6 2.        PREREQUISITE OF HIGH POTENCY .. 7 2.1 Authenticity . 7 Elements of Authenticity . 7 2.2 Compassion ..