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SHARP FOCUS - ANNIVERSARY EDITION

B  Y    D A V I D   P A M  M C Q U E L Today World Missions Africa Blog is Four Years Old. HURRAYYY!!! Here are the latest statistics: INPUT We made 130 blog posts in 4 years, an average of 32.5 or 2.7 posts a month Total of 24 comments an average of 6 per year. All Time visits of over 20,000 visits Last 30 days 357 Over 60 nations Highest visited articles: Depression and spiritual growth – 862 visits (all time highest) An extraordinary transformation (A converted radical muslim’s testimony) – 581 visits Leah Sharibu – 321 visits The Holy Spirit – 305 visits When roots matter – 254 visits The Church is going through fire; The Church and missions; First steps first and 7 others – hundreds of visits Top Browsers: Chrome 10,000 visits Mobile ,2500 visits Firefox 2,300 visits Opera 1,300 visits Safari 1,300 visits MSIE, mobile safari, headlessChrome, Samsung browsers and others, Hundreds of visits each. Top OS: Windows, Android, Iphone, mac, Linux, Ipad and com...

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By David Pam McQuel A lot has changed about Christianity today from its initial conception. In as much as diversity and differences of understanding is a good thing and biblical, unity of the faith is ultimate. Paul said ministry gifts placed in church are for our edification and growth.  Ephesians 4:11 "And He Himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists, and some pastors and teachers, 12 for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, 13 till we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to a perfect man, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ; And when we get matured to tne measure of the stature of Christ, it will show in "14 that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, 15 but, speaking the truth i...

DISCIPLESHIP: FROM WHERE WE GET IT RIGHT OR WRONG

In every profession, its future depends on the effort of its stakeholders to reproduce themselves. A carpenter must have apprentices for the profession to continue. Hairdressers must train younger hairdressers. The future of any art is in its ability to produce younger practitioners. So is the Christian faith. Jesus spent three years and a half to raise a few crop of people that would do exactly what he was doing. Jesus had great meetings. He held large audiences. One time he had 5,000 families in one seating. Another time the crowd was so large that some friends had to remove the roof of His house to let down a paralyzed man on a stretcher! Yet, the focus of His ministry was to produce 12 disciples who could do exactly what He was doing. At His return, 120 followers saw him off, yet His joy was in the 11 who He knew where disciples. And with them, He will change the world. His focus was not on the tens and hundreds of thousands that constantly attended his meetings but th...