Dear brethren,
I selected this topic from out of a dozen options given by SD, because this
seems to be the most pressing topic for us, Indian Christians to deal
with.
For us in India, the problem of evengelization is a unique one because of
the multifarious division of the country; linguistic, racial, caste-wise and
denomination-wise. We have people speaking almost 2000 dialects in addition to
the 23 official languages and we know that we have to train ministers in all
these languages if we are to reach all our people. And while we
make set up to train such witnesses, we need to co-ordianate similar attempts
made by visionaries from different denominations.
We need to have a "United Front" of all the Denominational
leaders at least for the purpose of evengelization. If you ask me I will
recommend a united front of all the Protestant and Reformed
denominations. It is not however wise to ignore the Catholic and Orthodox
church efforts in evengelization. We need to have an understanding with
them also in this effort, as they also spend millions of Rupees on this head.
1, A united Prayer-Fellowship needs to be formed as a precursor to the
formation of this United Front.
2, A group of Spirit-filled leaders should be chosen to form two
Committees(one for S.India & one for N.India) which will become
Boards (legally) eventually.
3, These Boards should be given discretion to call upon all the
Denominations in their jurisdiction to send 10% of their denominational income
to the Head-Quarters which will have facility to print literature(Tracts and
New Testaments) in all the possible languages and also training facility to
train ministers (pastors) for different language groups. If these operations
can be co-ordinated then each Rupee will go much longer in reaching the lost.
After ministering for the past 19 years in USA both in affiliation with the
Baptists and the Pentecostals, I am coming down to India for doing direct
evangelization there. I know it is very difficult to unite all the
Christian denominations for worship purpose as their doctrines vary
drastically. However, all denominations will agree with the' Great
Commission'
In fact, bible tells us that "this Gospel of the Kingdom shall be
preached to all the nations (language groups) and then the end shall come.
Matt.24:14. End of this Age will come only when the full number of te
Gentiles are added the Body. Rom.11.25.
All those who are interested in the Second Coming of the Lord are also under
obligation to hasten His Coming. 2 Pet.3:12.
I am also soliciting all those who are concerned about the evangelisation of
India to give your response to pastorgkoshy@hotmail.com