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The Way Missionary Work Is Carried Out
I am not going to pretend to know more about the Bible than anyone. I am just a Christian who has observed a trend that if not addressed, our religion might be ignored one day. I mean how to we expect to go on evangelism to preach to people who find it hard to eat even once a day. How do we expect them to take as seriously when we come to meet them in the state of rugs, diseases, unclean environments and all we do is share the word and leave?
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I believe if it must be done, it must be done the right way. Imagine if Bill Gates and Warren went on missions, what do you think will happen? In my opinion, they will try to make the lives of these afflicted people a little easier before sharing the word with them. By providing them with new houses with toilet and baths within, making sure their health needs are met, providing them with new clothes and stuff and then SHARE the word with them. This I believe will get their attention more than anything.
If these things are done before evangelism take place, it would back everything we say up. If I come to you to try and get you to join a business, wouldn’t you kind of want to see some proof that strengthens my words? How I dress and what I drive would definitely be the first things you will take into consideration. So, if I am to move to a village to spread the word of God and all I have is some 2 clothes, a sandal and nothing more than my lorry fare back, how will that prove to them that the God we worship is the source of joy, happiness and true wealth? Even if we do get people to see the truth in having God in their lives, that truth accompanied with how we look is what we will be selling which isn’t the best.
I believe if we are lucky even to have found God, we should be will to put his word into practice. The Lord wants you to be rich enough not to follow long queues to get your sick son, medical attention. He wants you to call a doctor home anytime you or your family is sick and then he expects you to go out there do it for others and while doing it give him all credits he deserves. For this to happen, we need to learn the new trends and hop on to greatness.
The Wrong Prayer
To many times, we as Christians act as if we read the Bible for reading sake. We act as if it contains nothing but the wondrous works our Lord Jesus Christ did. Aside for the amazing things our Lord did, are secrets to getting wealthy which can all be found in the Bible. If you ask a billionaire what it takes to be like them, they will tell you the answer is within you. The MIND, is a powerful tool that repeats whatever we constantly present to it. The Bible makes us to understand that we should flee from evildoers. Why? It is because no matter how good we are, if we stick around those who love to steal, fornicate, lie, we will eventually become just like them.
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Many Christians have in their lives people who are lazy and have a negative mental attitude and yet we keep them around. This does us more harm than good and yet we encourage it. Our children see it and copy it. They also grow up with children of said lazy friends who also copied it from their lazy parents and the trend continues.
When we pray, we ask for the Lord to give us things that we already have within. We pray for him to take away our troubles. We pray for him to prevent us from being fired from the job we have been at for 20 years. We pray for him to kill our enemies. Well, we are our number one enemy in case we didn’t know. I believe it is time we got up and challenged ourselves. It is time to stop entertaining people who bring less value into our lives for one day, we will be accounting for all we did here on this earth. Let us learn how to get wealth in God’s way and then help people in severe conditions to get up.