Keeping up: Growth & discipleship
In the business of expanding the kingdom of God, Engage India is sitting on a Gold mine. The need and opportunity of the spread of the gospel is at large in the mission field of Jharkhand. And the gospel is spreading far and wide in this largely tribal land. But it has its challenges. Largely the gospel movement has been spreading through what I would like to call the “Web movement.” It would mean that the spread of the gospel is through kith and kin and not so much as an entire village. That would mean that in a village 3 families would come to faith and somewhere 15 kilometres away 3 families would come to the faith through their influence. Well there is great joy that the gospel is spreading fast and far, but it makes discipleship really difficult. Distance makes it difficult to follow them up. Discipleship needs regular close up association over a long period of time. And distance makes things difficult. And you make a real effort to disciple the group and when you have made some progress you say well I have done my part and let me take it a little easy. And then the church grows again and spreads even further. And then the new leaders take this difficult role. Who ever said it was easy?
2010 is the year of discipleship. The deeper the new believers grow in the Lord the farther and deeper the church grows. When will India be evangelised
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