Gospel Tracts for Hindus

 

                                      

Here are two Gospel Tracts to help you share Jesus Christ with Hindus: These are downloadable to your desktop for you to print and use.  Whoever sows abundantly reaps abundantly. 

Truth Always Triumphs Tract  

The Vedic Bridge Tract  

*Hind Version now available!  Hindi Version Vedic Bridge

* Bangali Version Now available! Bengali Version Vedic Bridge

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Vedic Bridge Testimony

Recently Carl used the Vedic Bridge to witness to a Hindu (Ganesh) he met while out witnessing in his city.

Carl asked Ganesh if he had heard of a Mantra which spoke of the sin destroying light. Ganesh told him that he was very familiar with that mantra. Carl told Ganesh,

I found that what the mantra talks about. He said to Ganesh “I experienced that.”

Carl then took Ganesh through the Vedic Bridge tract to share the gospel.

Ganesh accepted Christ and was baptized by Carl. Then Carl challenged Ganesh to share about Jesus with his friends. Ganesh told his friend Palekar about Jesus

Christ. Palekar accepted Christ and was baptized by Ganesh.

Carl is continuing to disciple Ganesh and to equip him to be the foundation of a new house church.

Carl had been in India less than a year and found using the Vedic Bridge was an easy way to share Christ with a Hindu. Praise the Lord that Ganesh and Palekar have experienced the sin destroying light of Jesus Christ.

Status of Global Evangelization

Red dots represent populations less than 2% evangelical with no known church planting within the past two years.

What do you see when you look at the red on this map?

Romans 15:20  It has always been my ambition to preach the gospel where Christ was not known, so that I would not be building on someone else’s foundation. (NIV)

This map is published annually by the IMB, SBC    www.imb.org

Mumbai Ministry

                                       

You will find a great feature on Mumbai ministry at go2southasia 

View a multimedia presentation about Mumbai at http://www.commissionstories.com/?p=141).

Find other great articles here

http://www.go2southasia.org/slumdog.html

Please see these articles about Mumbai ministry:

http://www.bpnews.net/BPFirstPerson.asp?ID=30667

http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=30660

http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=30659

Ralph Winter Tribute

Ralph Winter has influenced an untold number of mission leaders. His life was greatly used of the Lord. I have posted his official biography and an interview with him on Youtube. As you watch this video you will find that his insights and passion for the unreached peoples continue to inspire.

Official obituary of Ralph Winter  

 

 

Ralph D. Winter, 1924 – 2009
Renowned Strategist Redirected Church’s Worldwide Mission Efforts

Recognized by TIME magazine in 2004 as one of America’s 25 most influential evangelicals, Ralph D. Winter, a world-renowned scholar of Christian mission and the founder and creative activist in a wide range of mission initiatives, has died. He was 84.

Winter died Wednesday, May 20 at his home in Pasadena after a seven-year battle with multiple myeloma and after additional struggles with lymphoma since early February.

Many of the accomplishments of Ralph Winter’s long career as a missionary, mission professor and “mission engineer” stemmed from his conviction that Christian organizations accomplish more when they cooperate in strategic ways. It was at the Lausanne International Congress on World Evangelization in 1974 that Winter burst upon the world stage with innovative analysis and advocacy that have redirected evangelical mission energies ever since.

Born in 1924, Winter spent his boyhood years in South Pasadena and was nurtured in Christian faith by devout parents and membership at Lake Avenue Congregational Church in Pasadena. He pursued a degree in civil engineering at Caltech, an M.A. at Columbia University in teaching English as a second language, and a Ph.D. at Cornell University in structural linguistics, with a minor in cultural anthropology and mathematical statistics. While in seminary at Princeton, he served as a pastor of a rural New Jersey church.

He married Roberta Helm in 1951 while studying for his Ph.D. at Cornell. Roberta’s expert help in research, writing and editing, among many other gifts, made her a valuable partner to her husband from the time of his doctoral studies onward.

Ordained in 1956, Winter and his wife joined the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions. They worked for ten years in Guatemala among the native Mayan people. Along with the development of 17 small businesses for bivocational pastoral students, Winter joined others to begin an innovative, non-residential approach to theological studies known as Theological Education by Extension (TEE), which has since been reproduced in countless mission contexts around the world.

Winter’s creativity with TEE and other initiatives caught the attention of Donald McGavran, who in 1966 invited Winter to join the faculty of the new School of World Mission at Fuller Theological Seminary (Pasadena, CA). Between 1966 and 1976 Winter taught more than a thousand missionaries, but he also claimed to learn much from his students. During these years he founded the William Carey Library, a specialized publisher and distributor of mission materials. He also co-founded the American Society of Missiology, helped in starting Advancing Churches in Mission Commitment (ACMC), and inaugurated what is now the Perspectives Study Program (first called the Summer Institute of International Studies).

Building on McGavran’s emphasis on people groups, and gleaning insights from his interaction with students and faculty, in July 1974 Winter presented a seminal address at Lausanne, Switzerland to the International Congress on World Evangelization, underscoring the necessity of pioneer, cross-cultural missionary outreach to thousands of “hidden peoples”, later more commonly known as “unreached peoples”. Winter’s statistics and careful reasoning stunned an audience (and their constituencies) that had previously assumed that “near-neighbor evangelism” by existing churches would be sufficient in world evangelization.

To facilitate creative outreach to unreached peoples, in 1976 Ralph and Roberta Winter founded the U.S. Center for World Mission (USCWM), and in 1977 the related William Carey International University, on the former campus of Pasadena Nazarene College, mobilizing evangelicals to pay for the acquisition of the $15 million campus through a series of campaigns that culminated in 1988 and that emphasized mission vision more than fund-raising. A community of workers in Pasadena and other locations, now known as the Frontier Mission Fellowship (FMF), has developed to sustain an array of cooperative mission projects, and until two weeks before his death Winter served as General Director of the FMF.

John Piper, author of Desiring God and Pastor for Preaching at Bethlehem Baptist Church (Minneapolis, MN), commented, “Ralph Winter was probably the most creative thinker I have ever known. On any topic you brought up, he would come at it in a way you never dreamed of. This meant that stalemates often became fresh starting points.” Likewise, Dale Kietzman, a professor at William Carey International University, noted, “He was constantly thinking outside the box. He did this to such an extent that you weren’t sure what the box was anymore.” C. Peter Wagner, a colleague at Fuller Seminary, has observed, “History will record Ralph Winter as one of the half-dozen men who did most to affect world evangelism in the twentieth century.”

At 84 Winter continued to work full-time, finding personal satisfaction in addressing a wide range of new challenges and perplexing questions. John Piper noted on his Weblog, “He did not waste his life, not even the last hours of it. He was busy dictating into the last days. He taught me long ago that the concept of ‘retirement’ is not in the Bible.” Greg Parsons of the USCWM observed, “He died with his boots on.”

Winter is preceded in death by his parents, Hugo H. Winter (a civil engineer recognized as “Mr. Freeway” for his leadership in the development of the Los Angeles freeway system) and Hazel Patterson Winter, and by his first wife of nearly 50 years, Roberta Helm Winter. He is survived by his second wife, Barbara; by his and Roberta’s four daughters (all of whom are active in Christian mission), Elizabeth Gill (Brad), Rebecca Lewis (Tim), Linda Dorr (Darrell), and Patricia Johnson (Todd); and by 14 grandchildren and one great-granddaughter.

He is also survived by his older brother, Paul H. Winter (Betty), a graduate of Caltech and a well-respected structural engineer; by his younger brother, David K. Winter (Helene), president of Westmont College in Santa Barbara for more than 25 years; and by nephews, nieces, and numerous friends and colleagues worldwide.

A memorial service is scheduled for Sunday, June 28, at 3:00 p.m. at the Worship Center of Lake Avenue Church, 393 N. Lake Avenue, Pasadena, CA. Details will be posted to the website of the U.S. Center for World Mission at http://www.uscwm.org.

Vedic Bridge Bengali

Download printable version at    Bengali Vedic Bridge 

 

 

 

 

ˆew`K †mZz 

 

Lªx‡ói Kv‡Q hvIqvi ˆew`K †mZz

Avcwb wK ÔMvqÎx gš¿Õ bv‡g cÖvPxb wn›`y gš¿wUi wel‡q ï‡b‡Qb? †mB gš¿wU wK e‡j Zv wK Avcwb Rv‡bb? gš¿wU e‡j-

 

Ò‡n fMevb! Zzwg Rxeb`vZv, `ytL I hš¿Yv `~iKvix, myL `vbKvix| I, wek¦f~gʇji m„wóKZ©v, Avgiv hv‡Z †Zvgvi m‡e©v”P cvc-aŸsmKvix Av‡jv‡K MÖnY Ki‡Z cvwi, Zzwg Avgv‡`i Ávb-eywׇK mwVK w`‡K cwiPvwjZ Ki|Ó

 

GB g‡š¿i †h jvBbwU Avgvi Kv‡Q me‡P‡q †ekx D‡ËRbvKi, †mwU nj: Ò Avgiv hv‡Z †Zvgvi m‡e©v”P cvc-aŸsmKvix Av‡jv‡K MÖnY Ki‡Z cvwi|Ó Avwg Avm‡jB Avb‡›` D‡ËwRZ, KviY †h cÖvPxb †jv‡Kiv GB AskwU wj‡LwQ‡jb, Zviv †h wel‡q K_v ejwQ‡jb, Avwg Zv Lyu‡R †c‡qwQ| Avwg †mB Ò cvc-aŸsmKvix Av‡jvÓ-‡K Lyu‡R †c‡qwQ! cÖ‡Z¨‡KB Ck¦‡ii Kv‡Q †cuŠQvi c_wU Lyu‡R †c‡Z Pvq Ges Avgiv m„wóKZ©v Ck¦‡ii Kv‡Q hvIqvi c_ Lyu‡R †c‡Z PvB| GB Òcvc-aŸsmKvix Av‡jvÓ m¤^‡Ü Avwg hv Lyu‡R †c‡qwQ, †mB welqwU wK Avwg Avcbvi mv‡_ fvMvfvwM Ki‡Z cvwi?

 

mgm¨v

†h Fwliv MvqÎx gš¿ wj‡LwQ‡jb, Ck¦‡ii cweÎ kv¯¿, cweÎ evB‡ej Zuv‡`i †mB K_v‡K wbwðZ K‡i‡Q| evB‡ej e‡j, ÒmevB cvc K‡i‡Q Ges Ck¦‡ii cÖksmv cvevi A‡hvM¨ n‡q c‡o‡QÓ (†ivgxq 3:23)|

 

MvqÎx g‡š¿i †jL‡Kiv Ges cweÎ evB‡e‡ji †jL‡Kiv eyS‡Z †c‡iwQ‡jb †h, gvby‡li me‡P‡q eo mgm¨v wQj Zv‡`i cvc| ZvB Avgv‡`i †mB m‡e©v”P Av‡jv `iKvi, †h Av‡jv Avgv‡`i g‡a¨Kvi cvc‡K aŸsm Ki‡e!

 

cÖ¯‘wZ

Ck¦i Rv‡bb Avgiv Avgv‡`i wb‡R‡`i †Póvq Avgv‡`i cvc‡K aŸsm Ki‡Z cvwi bv, ZvB wZwb Avgv‡`i Kv‡Q †mB Òcvc-aŸsmKvix Av‡jvÓ-‡K cvVv‡bvi wm×vš— wb‡qwQ‡jb| Avi †mB Òcvc-aŸsmKvix Av‡jvÓ Avmvi Av‡M †mB c_ cÖ¯‘Z Kivi Rb¨ Ck¦i GKRb Ô¸i“Õ-‡K cvwV‡qwQ‡jb| †mB ¸i“i bvg wQj Ô‡hvnbÕ|

 

Ô‡hvnbÕ bv‡gi GB ¸i“i wel‡q cweÎ evB‡ej GB K_v e‡j: ÒCk¦i †hvnb bv‡g GKRb †jvK‡K cvwV‡qwQ‡jb| wZwb Av‡jvi wel‡q mv¶x wnmv‡e mv¶¨ w`‡Z G‡mwQ‡jb †hb mK‡j Zuvi mv¶¨ ï‡b wek¦vm Ki‡Z cv‡i| †hvnb wb‡R †mB Av‡jv wQ‡jb bv wKš‘ †mB Av‡jvi wel‡q mv¶¨ w`‡Z G‡mwQ‡jbÓ (†hvnb 1:6-8)|

 

‡hvnb Kvi Rb¨ c_ cÖ¯‘Z K‡iwQ‡jb?

 

¸i“ †hvnb Avgv‡`i‡K †mB DËiwU w`‡q‡Qb| cweÎ evB‡ej e‡j, GKw`b-

Ò‡hvnb hxï‡K Zuvi wb‡Ri w`‡K Avm‡Z †`‡L ej‡jb, ÔH †`L Ck¦‡ii †gl-wkï, whwb gvby‡li mg¯— cvc `~i K‡ib| BwbB †mB †jvK huvi wel‡q Avwg e‡jwQjvg, Avgvi c‡i GKRb Avm‡Qb whwb Avgvi †P‡q gnvb, KviY wZwb Avgvi A‡bK Av‡M †_‡KB Av‡Qb| … wZwb †hb Bmªv‡qjxq‡`i Kv‡Q cÖKvwkZ nb †mBRb¨ Avwg G‡m R‡j evw߯§ w`w”QÓ (†hvnb 1:29-31)|

 

GQvov †hvnb hxïi wel‡q GB K_v e‡jwQ‡jb, ÒAvwg Zv †`‡LwQ Avi mv¶¨ w`w”Q †h, BwbB Ck¦‡ii cyÎÓ (†hvnb 1:34)|

 

†NvlYv

†hvnb e‡jwQ‡jb hxï GB c„w_ex‡Z G‡mwQ‡jb RM‡Zi gvbyl‡`i cvc mg~n `~i Kivi Rb¨|

 

wKš‘ hxï Zuvi wb‡Ri wel‡q †NvlYv K‡iwQ‡jb?

 

wZwb e‡jwQ‡jb, ÒAvwg GB RM‡Z Av‡jv wnmv‡e G‡mwQ †hb Avgvi Dc‡i †h wek¦vm K‡i †m AÜKv‡i bv _v‡KÓ (†hvnb 12:46)|

 

cvc nj AÜKvi| Avgv‡`i †mB Av‡jv `iKvi, KviY Avgiv AÜKv‡i, A_©vr cv‡ci g‡a¨ Rxebhvcb KiwQ| hxï n‡jb †mB Òcvc-aŸsmKvix Av‡jvÓ|

 

Avevi hxï e‡j‡Qb: ÒAvwgB RM‡Zi Av‡jv| †h Avgvi c‡_ P‡j †m KLbI AÜKv‡i cv †dj‡e bv, eis Rxe‡bi Av‡jv cv‡eÓ (†hvnb 8:12)|

 

me‡k‡l wZwb e‡j‡Qb: ÒAv‡jv Avcbv‡`i Kv‡Q _vK‡Z _vK‡ZB Av‡jvi Dci wek¦vm Ki“b †hb Avcbviv †mB Av‡jvi †jvK n‡Z cv‡ibÓ (†hvnb 12:36)|

 

hw` Avgiv AÜKvi †_‡K †ei n‡q Avm‡Z PvB, Zvn‡j Avgv‡`i‡K Aek¨B hxï‡K AbymiY Ki‡Z n‡e| hw` Avgiv hxï‡K AbymiY Kwi, Zvn‡j wZwb n‡eb Avgv‡`i Òcvc-aŸsmKvix Av‡jvÓ| wZwb Avgv‡`i‡K ÒAv‡jvi mš—vbÓ Ki‡eb| Avi GUv n‡e Av‡jv‡Z GKwU b~Zb Rxeb|

 

hxïi wel‡q †hvn‡bi K_v¸‡jv Ges wb‡Ri wel‡q ejv hxïi K_v¸‡jv QvovI, cweÎ evB‡ej GgbwK AviI wbðqZv †`q †h, hxï n‡jb †mB Òcvc-aŸsmKvix Av‡jvÓ|

 

ÒcÖ_‡gB evK¨ wQ‡jb, evK¨ Ck¦‡ii m‡½ wQ‡jb Ges evK¨ wb‡RB Ck¦i wQ‡jb| Avi cÖ_‡gB wZwb Ck¦‡ii m‡½ wQ‡jb| me wKQzB †mB ev‡K¨i Øviv m„ó n‡qwQj, Avi hv wKQz m„ó n‡qwQj †mM‡jvi g‡a¨ †Kvb wKQzB Zuv‡K Qvov m„ó nq wb| Zuvi g‡a¨ Rxeb wQj Ges †mB RxebB wQj gvby‡li Av‡jvÓ (†hvnb 1:1-4)|

 

Ò‡mB evK¨B gvbyl n‡q Rb¥MÖnY Ki‡jb Ges Avgv‡`i g‡a¨ evm Ki‡jb| wcZv Ck¦‡ii GKgvÎ cyÎ wnmv‡e Zuvi †h gwngv †mB gwngv Avgiv †`‡LwQ| wZwb `qv I m‡Z¨ c~Y©Ó (†hvnb 1:14)|

 

Ò‡mB Av‡jv AÜKv‡ii g‡a¨ R¡j‡Q wKš‘ AÜKvi Av‡jv‡K Rq Ki‡Z cv‡i wbÓ (†hvnb 1:5)|

 

ÒwZwb RM‡ZB wQ‡jb Ges RMr Zuvi ØvivB m„ó n‡qwQj, Zey RM‡Zi gvbyl Zuv‡K wPbj bv| wZwb wb‡Ri †`‡k Avm‡jb, wKš‘ Zuvi wb‡Ri †jv‡KivB Zuv‡K MÖnY Kij bv| Z‡e hZRb Zuvi Dci wek¦vm K‡i Zuv‡K MÖnY Kij Zv‡`i cÖ‡Z¨K‡K wZwb Ck¦‡ii mš—vb nevi AwaKvi w`‡jb| GB †jvK‡`i Rb¥ i³ †_‡K nq wb, kvixwiK Kvgbv ev cyi“‡li evmbv †_‡KI nq wb, wKš‘ Ck¦i †_‡KB n‡q‡QÓ (†hvnb 1:10-13)|

 

Ges Avevi

ÒZuv‡K †`vlx e‡j w¯’i Kiv n‡q‡Q KviY RM‡Z Av‡jv G‡m‡Q, wKš‘ gvby‡li KvR g›` e‡j gvbyl Av‡jvi †P‡q AÜKvi‡K †ekx fvj‡e‡m‡QÓ (†hvnb 3:19)|

 

Aby‡iva

cÖvq 3000 eQi Av‡M †h Fwliv MvqÎx gš¿wU wj‡LwQ‡jb, Zuviv †mB Òcvc-aŸsmKvix Av‡jvÓ-‡K †c‡Z †P‡qwQ‡jb| Zuviv m„wóKZ©v Ck¦i‡K Aby‡iva K‡iwQ‡jb Zuv‡`i Ávb-eywׇK mwVK w`‡K cwiPvwjZ Kivi Rb¨| †mB Fwliv wVK †hiKgwU AvKvsLv K‡iwQ‡jb, †mfv‡e Avwg †mB Òcvc-aŸsmKvix Av‡jvÓ-‡K †c‡qwQ| Ck¦i Avgvi Ávb-eywׇK hxïi w`‡K cwiPvwjZ K‡iwQ‡jb| hLb Avwg hxïi wel‡q ï‡bwQjvg, ZLb Avwg Zuvi Dci wek¦vm K‡iwQjvg Ges Zuvi KvQ †_‡K †mB Òcvc-aŸsmKvix Av‡jvÓ †c‡qwQjvg| GLb Ck¦‡ii mv‡_ Avgvi wgjb n‡q‡Q Ges wZwb mwVK w`‡K Avgvi Ávb-eywׇK cwiPvwjZ K‡i‡Qb| AvcwbI hxï‡K MÖnY Ki‡Z cv‡ib| GLbB Avcbvi Rxe‡b †mB Òcvc-aŸsmKvix Av‡jvÓ-i AwfÁZv jvf Ki‡Z cv‡ib Ges Ck¦‡ii mv‡_ Avcbvi wgjb n‡Z cv‡i| ZvB †h Òcvc-aŸsmKvix Av‡jvÓ ïaygvÎ hxïB Avcbv‡K w`‡Z cv‡ib, Avcwb wK Zv †c‡Z Pvb?

 

cwiKíbv

ÒAvwg wb‡R hv †c‡qwQ Zv me †P‡h `iKvix welq wnmv‡e †Zvgv‡`iI w`‡qwQ| †mB welq nj GB- cweÎ kv‡¯¿i K_vgZ Lªxó Avgv‡`i cv‡ci Rb¨ g‡iwQ‡jb, Zuv‡K Kei †`Iqv n‡qwQj, kv‡¯¿i K_vgZ wZb w`‡bi w`b Zuv‡K g„Zz¨ †_‡K RxweZ Kiv n‡q‡QÓ (1 Kwiš’xq 15:3,4)|

 

ÒGBRb¨ Avcbviv cvc †_‡K gb wdwi‡q Ck¦‡ii w`‡K wdi“b †hb Avcbv‡`i cvc gy‡Q †djv nq; Avi G‡Z †hb Ck¦i … Avcbv‡`i mRxe K‡i Zzj‡Z cv‡ibÓ (†cÖwiZ& 3:19)|

 

Ò‡mB K_v nj, hw` Zzwg hxï‡K cÖfy e‡j gy‡L ¯^xKvi Ki Ges Aš—‡i wek¦vm Ki †h, Ck¦i Zuv‡K g„Zz¨ †_‡K RxweZ K‡i Zz‡j‡Qb Z‡eB Zzwg cvc †_‡K D×vi cv‡e; KviY Aš—‡i wek¦vm Kievi d‡j Ck¦i gvbyl‡K wb‡`©vl e‡j MÖnY K‡ib Avi gy‡L ¯^xKvi Kievi d‡j cvc †_‡K D×vi K‡ibÓ (†ivgxq 10:9,10)|

 

cÖv_©bv

Ò‡n m„wóKZ©v Ck¦i, Avwg Rvwb Avgvi Rb¨ †Zvgvi B”Qv nj hv‡Z Avwg †Zvgvi mv‡_ wgwjZ n‡Z cvwi Ges Av‡jv‡Z Rxebhvcb Ki‡Z cvwi| Avwg ¯^xKvi KiwQ †h, Avgvi cvc mg~‡ni Kvi‡Y Avwg GB gyn~‡Z© AÜKv‡i Rxebhvcb KiwQ| Avgvi Gme fyj¸‡jvi Rb¨ Avwg `ytwLZ Ges GLb Avwg AÜKv‡i Rxebhvcb †_‡K Ges Avgvi AZxZ cvcc~Y© Rxeb †_‡K wd‡i Avm‡Z PvB| Avwg wek¦vm Kwi †h, †Zvgvi cyÎ hxï Lªxó Avgvi cvc mg~‡ni Rb¨ gviv wM‡q‡Qb, g„Zz¨ †_‡K RxweZ n‡q‡Qb Ges GLb RxweZ Av‡Qb| Avgvi Aš—‡i Avmvi Rb¨ Avwg hxï‡K Avgš¿Y Rvbvw”Q hv‡Z wZwb Avgvi mwZ¨Kv‡ii Av‡jv nb, Avgvi Ávb-eyw×/wePvi-eywׇK mwVK w`‡K/c‡_ cwiPvwjZ K‡ib Ges Avgvi Rxe‡bi cÖfy nb| hxïi bv‡g GB cÖv_©bv PvB, Av‡gb|Ó

 

: AviI we¯—vwiZ Rvbvi Rb¨ †hvMv‡hvM Ki“b :

 

Download printable version at Bengali Vedic Bridge 

Vedic Bridge French Version

                                                                                           

Here is a free download of The Vedic Bridge Gospel tract for Hindus in French language.

 

Click here for Vedic Bridge French Version 

 

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Best Practice Manual for Strategy Coordinators

Here is the practical manual in Church Planting Movements.

Many Christian Leaders have been trained as Strategy Coordinators for reaching an unreached people group or geographic segment. This manual represents some of the latest strategies that have proven effective to facilitate a Church Planting Movement among an unreached people. 

Click this link to get the BPI training manual in English:

bpi-training-manual_20082

Evangehand

The hand represents God and the thumb is You.

 God made you to be in fellowship with him. God’s purpose for you is relationship with you.

 

Adam and Eve experienced this relationship with God in the Garden of Eden. Because of only one sin the relationship with God was broken. 

 

God tells us that a sacrifice is required to restore the relationship that was broken between us and Him. 

But your iniquities have separated you from your God; your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear. (Isaiah 59:2)

Not only Adam and Eve, but the Bible says each of of has commited  sin that seperates us from God.

For all have sinned and fallen short of the golory of God. (Romans 3:23)

The wages of sin is death  (Romans 6:23)

God loves us so much that He came to us.

Jesus Christ born in a humble manger came to provide the sacrifice that was required of us.  Jesus Christ came lived a perfect sinless life and died on the cross to pay the penalty for your sin. 

For Christ died for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive by the Spirit,  (1 Peter 3:18)  God tells us that if you believe that Jesus and ask God that his death on the cross count for our sins, then our relationship with God will be restored. We will be back into God’s hand. 

The punishment that was for us was inflicted upon Jesus. 

God has already provided the sacrifice that is necessary to bring you back into His hand. 

If you refuse the sacrifice then your bad works remain between you and God. 

You are unable to do enough good things to overcome that barrier.  If you die in this position you will be cut off from God’s protection forever. 

We cannot do good works to retore our broken relationship with God.  

 

For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith—and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God— 9not by works, so that no one can boast.  (Ephesians 2:8-9)

 

If we are in God’s hand we will remain there, protected and safe forever. 

 John 10:28  I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one can snatch them out of my hand.

  

When you have accepted Jesus Christ as your savior and Lord you have assurance of eternal life.

 

1 John 5:12 He who has the son has life, he who does not have the Son of God does not have life.  

 2 Corinthians 5:17 NIV

17Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!

 

 

1 John 1:9 NIV

9If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.

 

Ends of the Earth: Free Prayer Resource

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There are hundreds of millions of people in South Asia living and dying with no access to the Gospel. These are the Ends of the Earth people groups. Learn more about specific Ends of the Earth people groups and how you can pray for them each month with our Ends of the Earth 2009 calendar.

Each month has a tear-off bookmark. The bookmark will remind you to pray for that people group and will give you specific prayer requests.

But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you shall be my wintesses in Jerusalem, and all Judea and Samaria and to the Ends of the Earth.

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Sentinelese: The remotest people in the world

Have you ever wondered what people group has the least access to the gospel?

 

 

The Sentinelese may be the greatest missions challenge anywhere! The Sentinelese are considered the remotest people in the world. The Sentinelese are probably the people of the world most cut off from the gospel and hearing the good news of Jesus Christ.

 

They are a Nigrito tribe with a population of 250 and inhabit the remote North Sentinel Island situated to the west of Port Blair on the Andaman Islands. They do not interact with anyone outside of their Sentinelese tribe.

 

No one is permitted to go onto the North Sentinelese Island. Sentinelese speak their own language that is called Sentinelese. This language is not understood by anyone outside the island and they do not understand any other languages. Because of their geographical closeness to other Negritos, their language is considered to be member of the Andamanese family of languages. Very little is known about their life style and culture.

 

The Andaman and Nicobar Islands is Union territory of India, famous for the exotic wildlife, coral reefs and remote tribals which are considered among the most backward tribes in the world. Andaman and Nicobar consist of 572 Islands East of Madras extending north to Burma and South to Indonesia.

 

There are about 30 islands, in Andaman, which are inhabited. During the British rule, convicts (freedom fighters) from the Indian mainland were deported to the islands as a form of punishment. There are at least 26 Main Indian languages and unique tribal languages that have as many as 1,400 distinct dialects.

 

Foreigners require a permit to visit the Andaman. A 30-day permit is granted on arrival at Port Blair (either by air or sea). Much of the archipelago remains off limits to foreigners even with the permit. Jet airways have daily flights to and from Andaman Islands from Chennai during the tourist season, which begins in October and ends in May.

 

Many feared this tribe was wiped out December 26, 2004 during the Tsunami. An Indian coastguard helicopter flew low over Sentinel Island and confirmed the tribe survived. They may have survived the devastation by using age-old early warning systems of noticing changes in the behavior of wildlife and ran to high ground for safety.

 

 

Pray for the Sentinelese to know the Good News of Jesus Christ.

 

Mark 11:17 Jesus taught them, “My house will be called a house of prayer for all peoples” (ethnos).  

 

 

 

 

 

John Clough Apostle to the Telugu

 

 

John Everett Clough was born in New York July 16, 1836, Died November 24, 1910.

John Clough went to India with his wife Harriet Clough in 1864. He established the Baptist Mission in Ongole.

John Clough baptizes 2,222 in one day in Ongole in the Gundlakamma River which was of the Madras Presidency, July 1878 and 9,000 within six weeks. This happened after many non-productive years, when only a few people favored continuing the “Lone Star Mission” in South India.

The American Baptists began work among the then neglected Telugu in 1840 in Nellore. The first believer was baptized in 1841 and a church organized in 1844. Fruitless years followed and in 1846 and later in 1855 the Nellore mission was in danger of being closed.

A speech by the corresponding secretary and a poem on the “Lone Star Mission” turned the scale and the mission continued. Again in 1862 comparative non-success of the mission put the mission in jeopardy.

One missionary Dr. Lyman Jewett said, “You can give up the Telugu mission, but I will never abandon the Telugus. I will go back to India and die there.” After this one of the secretaries said, “well brother, if you return to die in India, we must send somebody to give you Christian burial.” The mission was continued, but some felt continuing was unwise.

At first John Clough worked with the high caste Brahmins. If outcasts were received the work with the Brahmins would be finished. Clough did not hesitate long to work among the Madigas. While turning the matter over in his mind, he opened a new copy of the Telugu New Testament and his eyes fell on the verse, 1 Corinthians 1:26 “For you see your calling, brethren, that not many are wise after flesh, not many mighty, not many noble.”

Dr. Clough made great advances in 1878 following a famine, and Clough took a contract for a portion of one of the canals that were dug. He gave employment to thousands of Telugus who may have otherwise starved. This practical demonstration won the hearts of the Telugus.

Clough’s Tomb reads: Be Still and Know that I am the Lord.

John Clough was known as: “The Apostle to the Telugu.”

References:

Click to read:  Understanding Church Growth  by Donald McGavran, C. Peter Wagner Page 10-12

Click to read:  Biographical Dictionary of Christian Missions by Gerald H. Anderson

Jayaraj, Franklynn. Moses of 19th Century John Everett Clough Published by Centre for Contemporary Christianity. India, 2006

Clough, J. E. Social Christianity in the Orient To Read on-line click here    Macmillan Company 1914