From my devotions this morning, F. B. Meyer talks about reports from the recent Edinburgh Missionary Conference (1910). Bishop Tucker, of Uganda, wrote: “The work of winning the souls of the people of this country to Christ is really being done by the natives themselves, under the supervision of the foreign missionaries. Dr. John Ross stated that of the twenty thousand church members in Manchuria less than one hundred had been led to Christ solely by the missionaries, and the remaining nineteen thousand nine hundred by the devoted labors of these newly converted souls. Dr. Moffet, of Korea, has stated that the Korean Christians for the last ten years have been bringing in the converts faster than the missionaries have been able to provide instruction for them. - F. B. Meyer ~ During one of our trips to China one of the young volunteers who worked with us made a decision to receive Jesus as her savior. Going back to do follow up work a year later I had the pleasure of watching this young believer share her faith very naturally with another passenger on the train that we were taking from Qinghai to Chengdu. In Japan, sharing ones faith personally with someone else seems to be much more difficult. Japanese dont like to draw attention to anything different about themselves that would set them apart from others. Like anything else evangelism needs to be approached here with three components. 1. Information 2. Training 3. Leadership 1. Information - The Japanese church needs to understand the great need for evangelism, the crisis of failing to engage in it and the benefit of success. 2. Training - Japanese never do anything half-way and wont start unless they feel that they have sufficient ability to be successful. 3. Leadership - The final key step is that we must give them models, show them practically how it is done and walk them through the first few times.
Posted on: Sun, 13 Jul 2014 23:36:37 +0000
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