Some years back, I was translating two missionary couple into Nepali in a Leadership Seminar in Nepal. Both of them were long time missionary to Asia, it was so exciting to see their commitment to the Cross-Cultural mission, but when I started to talk to them, I came to know one of them were missionary to South India, and another couple was missionary in the Philippines.
Not only these two couple, but almost all the ministries in Christian Nations who claims that they have ministries in Asia, are working either in India or in Philippines. The ministries I have seen working in India, are mainly focused to South India (Where gospel had brought on AD 32 by St. Thomas). On the another hand, The Philippines is the only Christian nation of Asia.
There is no doubt that Gospel is very much important in Asia. But the real need of gospel isin North India where there Thousands villages without single gospel witness. Millions souls are there who have not heard even single time about Jesus. The real need of Philippines and South India is not gospel, but revival. And this is the time that the native Churches there need to revive. They need to come out of Christian Religion to personal Relationship to Christ. The people there are very godly Christians which strong dedication on Roman Catholic and other Denominational Religion. And it is not the gospel, but the Revival brings them out from Christian Religion to Personal Relation with Christ.
There are the countries which are too equal need of Gospel. But generally people don't like to go to Bhutan because the Churches are underground there. Christians are on the prison only because of their faith, but many Christians in west are not aware of this. Thousands souls are dieing each day without Christ in Asia, but still majority our believers in western Christian nations are not serious for mission works. Or Western Christianity is introducing the gospel work only as the tool for developing denominational and personal empire rather then bringing people back to Christ and promoting the Kingdom of God.
Another serious mistake Western Ministries is making is the investment in unfruitful areas. Many times, we want to construct huge Church Buildings investing there Millions Dollars. But we don't understand seriously that The Real Church is not the fortified building that we have made, but the called out people of Living God. We want to construct the modern building, but forget to invest for the Kingdom of God. Even today, many Churches in developed nations are happy in what they have got, but they are not so much interested on mission works to the unreached.
Another bitter fact is, many times we are divided into the denominations. Rather then a Christian, many times we see our self as Protestant or may be as Evangelical or Charismatic. One serious question of many Christians around the world is whether they are Catholic or Protestant? They never knew about Martin Luther when they heard the gospel. Nor they heard about Pope or any Patriarch. They heard only and only about Christ when they believed, and they were converted as aChristian and as a Bible Believing Christian. Our Lord has promised us that He is coming soon. We know that we are living in End time. The fire of Revival has spread around the nations. We are living in the climax of Christian History and the work of God has multiplied then ever before. Now the Church of Living God need to be more mission minded Church. We need to train the native nationals. Send them out for reaching out the unreached. Open our hands and share our material blessings with the workers of vineyard who are laboring for the Kingdom of God. I know that many of us are not able to go our self in mission fields. But even if we all Christians take our part of sharing our financial blessings with the people who are on the mission, we can mobilize Millions more nationals for reaching this world before our Lord comes back. This is the time for teaching and mobilizing the nationals for reaching their nations. We the Christians need to make our contribution more for the work of God to train and send the nationals for unreached. We need to revive as mission minded Christian. We need to stretch our hands for supporting the work of God.
Many times we consider our contribution for mission as our donation. Why do we think that the God who is creator of Heaven and earth, the God who has put the gold and diamonds mines under the earth we are living needs our donation? He is the same God, who has put all the resources on the ground we are standing and everything we are using is the property that He has created. But support for the work of God is not our donation for God; it is our spiritual seeds to reap more blessings both on our earthly lives and on the Kingdom of God. This is exactly what Christ taught "lay not up for yourselves treasure upon the earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and seal: but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through and steal: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also" (Matt 6:19-21).
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