EVANGELISM, DISCIPLESHIP & MISSIONS (EDM)

B Y   D A V I D    M c Q U E L HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL   But for us at the World Missions Centre, Abidjan, it is an even bigger day. Today is the 5 th anniversary of the launch of the World Missions Africa Blog.   When we launched on January 1, 2017, we had only on our hearts a message to share about the love of God through our Lord Jesus Christ and on our minds anxiety and questions if anyone at all will read the message we blog.   Here was our first blog post published on January 3, 2017: “Welcome to our blog. World Missions, Africa is making every effort to bring the love of Christ to all humanity. Primarily, we focus on  Africa  now in our physical activities. But with the online community, our efforts extends to the ends of the earth. Jesus died for all humanity. Every race, every ethnic group, every people, male or female, bound or free, the gospel of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ is free to all. Jesus said, "...

By   D a v i d     P a m     M c Q u e l Thanks to the Collins online dictionary. clueless. (kluːləs ) adjective. If you describe someone as clueless, you are showing your disapproval of the fact that they do not know anything about a particular subject or that they are incapable of doing a particular thing properly. It seems to be an insult or rather too harsh to accuse someone of been clueless. Don’t even dare use it against the church. If there is an exposed wire in my electrical wiring of my house, it will spark every time both naked wires have contact. If I don’t know what to do next, no matter how many degrees I have acquired from Cambridge or Oxford Universities, it will be safe to say I was clueless. Many parents don’t really know what to do as first aid treatment for their kids. So if your kid has a high fever in the middle of the night at home and you have no access to medical care, you may become f...

R o b e r t    C o l e m a n What is the greatest obstacle to Evangelism today? Some may think that it is the fear of how others will respond, or a feeling of being unqualified to answer the questions of friends who do not believe in Jesus. I believe the reason goes deeper than that. In North America, we have a society of people who generally have a sense of sufficiency in themselves. People do not feel a need for a relationship with God. The feel that they are getting along alright on their own, so they see no need for salvation. We also have a culture where, if people believe in God, they tend to fashion Him in their own image - with all of their human limitations. Everyone thus determines what they want to believe. Nothing is nailed down; people set their own standards, and truth becomes relative. Tolerance becomes the great virtue of society, and claims of authority based on the Word of God can make one look like a bigot. And it is just "the worl...

D A U D A    E T H A N   Y U S U F Life is a gift. A beautiful gift from God. It is to be enjoyed, maximized and appreciated.  However, life must be shared. One phenomenon about life is this, despite its beauty and splendor, it is best enjoyed when shared. Its beauty radiates more when offered. God created Adam a perfect being, the model of mankind. However, something was lacking, something that'll beautify Adam's life. So God declared; it is not good for the man to be alone. God actually wanted someone to share from Adam's life. What did God do? He created for Adam a partner, so that they'll both share from each others lives. Have you wondered why the presence of another person in your life makes you feel happy and fulfilled? That's because you're created to relate. God intentionally created humans not to be independent, neither did God create man to be fully dependent. God created humans to be inter-dependent.  Have you ever wo...

By David Pam McQuel Justin has a very busy day ahead. How he wished there are 25 hours in a day! It could afford him sometime to do much more. He has to drop the kids of school, then speed off to the dry cleaners. Along the he realized he didn't take his tie, and hopes to get a new time from Oak St. He also needs to be in the office before 9:00am to go through his points again for the meeting he has with very important clients. What a busy day! Let's not talk about lunch and he has to squeeze some time to attend his French classes. He thought to himself: Pressure! Pressure!! Pressure!! Accompanied the scream with a slap on the steering! Jason whispered to himself, "a young man got to fight hard, keep up with the pace and outdo your competitors! Justin you can't be left behind!" Daily pressures, daily routines and daily demands are ever growing influences in our day-to-day. They encroach like termites, like a swarm of locust. There are Chr...

By David Pam McQuel Jesus expects us to receive missionaries because if you are a Christian, you are automatically involved in evangelism and missions. "We are intimately linked in this harvest work. Anyone who accepts what you do, accepts me, the One who sent you. Anyone who accepts what I do accepts my Father, who sent me. Accepting a messenger of God is as good as being God's messenger. Accepting someone's help is as good as giving someone help. This is a large work I've called you into, but don't be overwhelmed by it. It's best to start small. Give a cool cup of water to someone who is thirsty, for instance. The smallest act of giving or receiving makes you a true apprentice. You won't lose out on a thing." The Message Bible Who is a missionary? Even though we are all called by the Lord and sent to the mission field of evangelism, there are different levels of engagement for every one. The entire field of evangelism is the scope of...

By David Pam McQuel The man was intriqued.  He was torn between who to believe. The man of his own company,  as they ceaselessly scandalized him which appeared to be out of pure jealousy or to follow the intuition of his heart? He was  raised in this prestigious exclusive class and have studied hard. But he is an analyst and pragmatic melancholy. He cuts through the emotions and the sentiments and deals with hard facts.  He has reasoned with the ancient writings, he has tried to reason with his colleagues but they were too hysterical. They were consumed by hate rather than reason.  Day by day this man sweeping the country and touching it has intriqued him more than any other in his seven decades. He was all out in the pursuit of this object of obsession.  He won't rest until he finds the truth. Finding the truth was going to be the greatest finding of his life and he wasn't going to rely on others' judgement. He will decide for h...

by David Pam McQuel * Please we would like to hear from you to assess our effectiveness. Check details at the end and there is a comments input field following. Thank you . When God finally gave me the go ahead to start this blog on the 1st of January 2017, I knew exactly what He wanted of me. There are three key words that propel the blog and they are: Evangelism Witnessing Jesus to those who either have never heard about His sacrifice for them or have not understood the message of salvation. And helping lead them to Christ in prayer of confessing His lordship over their lives. Discipleship God's desire is that a convert grows to become a disciple. To achieve this, spiritual leaders and other maturing believers must help new believers learn and grow into disciples. Missions This is the aspect of the Church that focuses on expanding the kingdom and spreading the gospel to foreign peoples and cultures and nations. It is the collect effort of the Churc...

By David Pam McQuel Throughout the life span of the church there has been a continues circle. Its been a rollercoaster. The church will be on fire, great revival and an overwhelming expansion will come. The quality of commitment skyrockets. The passion for the things of God will be unparalleled. Then as the late Myles Munroe says, "the  greatest enemy of success is success". The church flourishes, and her prosperity becomes her bane. Everyone relaxes and she begins to pat herself at the back and singing her praises. Then management and administration takes centre stage and priority shifts from spreading the word to consolidation. Project Babel starts, and the church loses her call. Solidly, step by step, little by little we become at ease. Personal ambition, struggles for position, desire for fame and recognition come in and the spiritual life of the assembly is drained. With the  of the generation of the torchbearers, a new generation comes that had no experie...

Walking home from the office on Tuesday, I was caught by a news item on the BBC Newshour 20h edition. Robot priest unveiled in Germany.  As the news anchor tried frantically to point out the strangeness of the idea, the spokesperson for the church was all excited and self-feliciting for the "pioneer" work they are proud to have achieved.  I was like, What? What are you talking about?  Ironically, this work was made to commemorate the 500th anniversary life and work of Marthin Lurther. How ronical! It is stunning that God who would not even allow angels preach, such a lofty calling reserved only for Jesus' disciples now gradually transferred to robots!  The Mirror published online under the theme: "Robot 'preacher' can beam light from its hands and give automated blessings to worshippers." The mirror further explained, "Five hundred years after Luther published the Ninety-five Theses in Wittenberg, kicking off the Reformation, an...

I looked forward to this evening, since the appointment was made. I have known Konga for three years now. He has a difficult appearance and dread in the estate by some but supposedly unfriendly. And kept a small circle of hardcore friends that look alike, tattoos, earrings and intimidating muscles. I didn't know what he makes of me, a missionary. We have had just a few cordial greetings nothing much. But day and night I have desired to share the gospel with every single soul in this estate. After three years of seeing someone five days of the week makes starting a simple conversation less suspicious. I walked up to him a week earlier, on a Tuesday morning, smiled and tried a short chat. I didn't intend to blast off with a holier-than-thou repent-or-you-perish evangelistic jargons. I just wanted simple spark of friendly communication, and that I got. And much more! I got a smile, an invitation inside, more importantly an appointment to share the good news of salvati...