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    Effective Christian Missions
    Effective Christian Missions
    Effective Christian Missions
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    Effective Christian Missions

    By Gorette Nakyangwe

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    Effective Christian Missions gives a deep understanding of what missionary work is all about, how important missions are in the expansion of God's Kingdom and how a mission can be accomplished successfully. The book is intended to help the reader understand his/her position and responsibility in bringing the lost to Christ and afterwards take action.
    The author takes the reader through the basis of Christian Missions, bringing to light God's intention to reconcile all men to Himself through those who have already believed in Jesus Christ.
    The author explains the position of every Christian in the expansion of God's Kingdom, explaining that it is mandatory for every believer to participate in this call in various ways as elaborated inside.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherGorette Nakyangwe
    Release dateOct 5, 2012
    ISBN9781301427017
    Effective Christian Missions
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    Gorette Nakyangwe

    Writing and reading are my favourites. Interacting cross culturally with all groups and kinds of people is no problem for learining is a continuous activity in my life journey.

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      Good basic introduction to cross-cultural missions written from an African persepective.

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    Effective Christian Missions - Gorette Nakyangwe

    EFFECTIVE CHRISTIAN MISSIONS

    Know Your Part in Bringing the Lost To Christ

    By: GORETTE NAKYANGWE

    Published by Gorette Nakyangwe at Smashwords

    Copyright 2012 Gorette Nakyangwe.

    All Scripture quotations are taken from the King James Version of the Bible unless otherwise stated.

    Smashwords Edition, License Notes

    This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

    Dedicated to my Lord and only saviour Jesus Christ, who painfully faced a shameful death that I might be saved and whose love and grace uphold me to this day.

    Table of Contents

    Introduction

    CHAPTER 1- MISSIONS

    CHAPTER 2- MISSIONARIES

    CHAPTER 3- SHORT TERM MISSIONS

    CHAPTER 4- THE CIRUCLAR PROCESS OF CHURCH PLANTING

    CHAPTER 5- LONG TERM MISSIONS

    CHAPTER 6- THE REALITY, Challenges of Fulltime Missionary Work.

    CHAPTER 7- FAMILY AND MISSIONS

    CHAPTER 8-HAVING AN EFFECTIVE LONG AND FULLTIME MISSION

    CHAPTER 9- SENDER MISSIONARIES

    CHAPTER 10- INTERCESSORS

    CHAPTER 11- THE ROLE OF CHURCH LEADERS

    CHAPTER 12- HELL IS REAL

    CHAPTER 13- YOUR WORK IS NOT IN VAIN

    Food for Thought

    About the Author

    Introduction

    While so many churches have been established in so many parts of the world, there are still places in this same world where the gospel of Christ has not been preached. We praise and thank God for the revival in many countries and for the doors He has opened even in those places where Christianity was an abomination. The same God who opened those doors which were closed to the gospel will also open doors to the places where the gospel has not been preached. If we study the history of the churches in the world’s known Christian cities and nations, we realize that God did not go there physically but He through men who surrendered their everything reached these cities we are proud of today as Christian cities, some of these men of God have already finished their race and are gone to be with our Lord, awaiting their crowns of glory, so the question stands, who will go today? Who is that individual through whom God wants to bring revival to Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq, Somalia, Saudi Arabia, Mozambique, Tanzania, your neighborhood, etc.?

    Having gone on several short term missions and having spent some valuable time with long term and full time missionaries, I have observed a gap between the church and missionary work especially in Africa. Whereas it is God’s core mission to bring the lost back to Him, it is the ministry that has the least servants, not because there are no disciples to go out and make more but because some don’t know what exactly they can do to be part of the mission, many know but somehow they are not comfortable with this kind of work. May God help us see the need for co-operation in the ministry of reconciliation which He has entrusted to us as believers. Apart from going to the unreached areas there are so many other things a Christian can do to facilitate this work of spreading the gospel and in so doing you will have fulfilled your God given task of making disciples of all nations.

    As you read this introduction you are probably scanning your mind and listing those you think will go to those places but it is also possible that at the back of your mind there is a voice saying, will you go? Will you participate?

    This book spells out some truths about Christian missions and the place of every believer in expanding the Kingdom of God. It is my utmost prayer that by the end of the chapters you will be able to fix yourself into the puzzle according to the leading of the Spirit of God, and that after you have found your place you will take immediate action embarking on what you are called to do because the Lord has anointed you for that, you just need to get up and begin to walk in the light of your anointing.

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    CHAPTER 1: MISSIONS

    Mission refers to an assignment, a charge, a task, a duty, an operation.

    Mission in the Christian perspective refers to an assignment to preach the gospel of Christ where it has not been preached with the aim of reconciling men to God. The one who has been sent out has been commissioned.

    Matthew 24:14 And this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in the entire world for a witness unto all nations; and then shall the end come.

    Commissioned- Sent out to accomplish a particular task.

    Commissioned- Sent out to bring back the lost into the Kingdom of God.

    Matthew 28:18 And Jesus came and spake unto them, saying, all power (authority in other translations) is given unto me in heaven and in earth.

    Matthew 28:19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:

    Matthew 28:20 Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

    By all the authority given unto Jesus, He sent us out to go and make disciples of ALL nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit.

    A disciple of Christ is a believer, a follower, a student and a devotee to the faith and this is what He sent us out to do-to make them disciples, a missionary’s fulfillment is not only in telling people about Christ but also in seeing them become disciples.

    As a means of clearing our consciences, some of us have found fulfillment in going somewhere and telling people Christ loves you without really teaching them the gospel truth that transforms them into Christ’s disciples, in as much as this will give us fulfillment, it is not all of what our savior sent us to do. Yes, He says if you tell them and they don’t reform it is up to them (Ezekiel 3:10,18) but reading between the lines of those verses we realize that God told Ezekiel that he was to speak to them that which God told him-THE TRUE WORD OF GOD.

    Let’s take a look at Matthew 28:18-20.

    ALL AUTHORITY IS GIVEN UNTO ME: Why did Jesus start with these words before he could say what he intended to?

    The work of the great commission can only be accomplished with supernatural authority, although preaching and teaching of the gospel is done physically, it has much more to do with the spiritual. The souls that we expect to bring back to God are under another authority;i.e the power of the enemy, they are in another kingdom which is against the kingdom of God, and this already means that it is not a walk over getting them out of there, one has to have authority. Jesus could have commissioned the disciples before his crucifixion but he did it after the resurrection, why? Because he had to go to the enemy’s camp and take authority over him (he took the keys of hell) then he would be able to send us out. That is why at this moment he had the confidence to say that all authority in heaven and on earth has been given unto me GO YE THEREFORE….

    So from Jesus’ words we know that we don’t have to worry about the possibility of the task given unto us because we have been sent in divine authority, all other powers cannot prevail over us. This was to give us the confidence to confront the enemy and demand those souls that he is holding in bondage.

    GO YE THEREFORE…Jesus did not beg his disciples to go but he commanded them to, because

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