The document discusses the failures of modern churches and calls for a return to the biblical model of the church seen in Acts. It notes that churches today are not producing apostles, prophets, or people performing signs and wonders like in the early church. Additionally, the gifts of believers are often neglected and people are not trained and sent out to plant new churches. The document calls for churches to identify and develop the gifts in believers, train people for ministry, and commission them to go out and establish new churches rather than focusing primarily on the Sunday gathering.
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Result?
• You have sown
much
• But you bring
in little
• What a lot of
efforts you
pastors are
putting in
• Your efforts
bring in less
fruits
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Result?
• 3000 baptized
the same day
• Believers were
together & had
all things in
common Acts
2:44
• Anyone of you
baptized 3000
the same day?
• Any church
which
practices this
concept
today?
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Result?
• Number added
day by day
• Ananias fell
down & died
• Any pastor
giving baptism
every day?
• Any one falling
down & dying
at the
admonition of
pastor?
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Result?
• Great fear
came upon all
who heard
• You looked
for much
• Is there fear
among the
believers to
enter
unworthy?
expectation
of souls are
high
9. LISTEN & OBEY
“Go up the mountain” – Early morning
spend 2.30 hours at Prayer mountain
“bring wood” - seek for souls (Hag.1:8)
- Spiritual warfare to be waged for
releasing captive souls
(Mt 12:29; Mk 3:27; Lk 11:21, Is 49:24)
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And build the house
• As Moses built it
according to the pattern
shown to him
• I will take pleasure
& will be glorified
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Go up to the
mountain!
• Start getting plans from the
Lord
• Every day affair!
• Where to go, not to go, whom
to speak. whom not to speak
what to do, what not to do
etc
12. I WILL BUILD MY CHURCH
• HIS MODEL CHURCH = HIS BRIDE
(Eph 5:27)
FOR WHICH HE SHED HIS BLOOD
THAT IT MAY BE SPOTLESS
16. ILLUSTRATIONS
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• 1.Construction work
Will you hire a worker without
skill?
Will you hire an unskilled worker &
pay him wages every month?
I will never send a believer with
no gift to your church
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– Are my people cattle tied
to poles, coming at
regular time for eating
feed?
– Come Sunday
– take fixed seat
– spend 2 hours
– go away!
– lifelong routine!
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• My people kept like barren
eunuchs at palaces just given
food and work
• Church kept ever barren!
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• If your
children are
not married
aren’t you
sad?
• Why my
church
Barren &
unproductive?
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CHURCH FAILURE
Why no Apostles / Evangelists / bold
Prophets today ?
• Why only handful in the world ?
• Church did not train them! Raise them!
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• Where are Peters / Pauls / Philips
today ?
• Why none from YOUR church ?
• Did the power of Holy Spirit
decrease ?
CHURCH FAILURE
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• Why the Church keeps dumb?
• No prophet to rebuke such vulgarism?
• Why don’t you condemn
• such disasters ?
• Why no condolence message for such
dead church ?
• Why do you keep silent ?
• Why no protest ?
33. Church in India to send condolence
message to churches when such
things are heard
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36. • Moses saw Aaron allow the
people go without restraint –11
tribes weak! Ex 32:25
•Committed Moses – asked the
zealous Levites to take sword!
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ARISE!
• They went against their sons
and brothers
Asked Levi to consecrate themselves
to the LORD
“ I will make you a blessing”
(Ex 32:29)
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• Take the Sword-the Word
• Go to the neighbouring church
• Go to the Church in other countries
• Clean up the Churches –make it
Jehovah’s dwelling place!
• No abomination should be seen inside!
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Go to the White House!
A trumpet to your lips!
If not,enemy will pursue them!
In distress they will seek me! I will not be
seen!
Call to the Church in
India!
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WARNING
• What is the motive of going abroad ?
Hos 4:8 ?
• If you must go, would you be a John the
Baptist ?
• If you must go, accept only the travel
expenses
• Get my consent if you need to receive extra
funds
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BURDEN FOR THE WEST
• Be indebted to church in West
• Your duty to correct them
• Don’t be concerned only about
‘your’ church! they have sent
missionaries to you!
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CHURCH RUNNING AT
LOSS!
• Why no strategy ?
• Why no plan ?
• When the world has advanced why
you have not grown?
• Will any company function
without purpose and plan ?
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Church – a dumping place?
Of dummy aimless, passive
Spectators?
ACCUSATION AGAINST
THE CHURCH
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ACCUSATION AGAINST
THE CHURCH
• Regular attendance ?
• Regular giving ?
• “Yes boss” – blind obedience to Pastor?
6 days active work-
7th day spectator -
fearful slave
= INEFFECTIVE
THE CHURCH HEAD
HELD RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS
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• Bear their weaknesses!
• Give opportunity to them to
exercise their gifts
• Allow them to grow!`
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I WILL NO MORE BE PATIENT
WITH YOU
If you don’t heed now I will
remove your ministry !
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Identifier of gift,
Enabler
Facilitator
Developer
Motivator
Encourager
Focused on Jesus
(John the
Baptist model)
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Number trained
• Number commissioned
• Number sent
Number of planted churches
• Reports of successful ministry
(Acts 13:47; 14:25-27; 15:3)
• A Church all the 7 days active
• A Pilgrim Church (Acts 16-18)
• A CHURCH ON THE MOVE
• New members replacing those sent
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GO
• Where I send you
• For training
• For ministry
• Stay as long as I tell you
• Stay where I tell you (Acts 18:18)
• Preach, Counsel (Acts 17:22, 18:4,7)
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• Prove with Word & signs (Acts 18:5, 11)
• Move – Don’t stay for more than 1 years (Acts 18:6-7)
• I will give you the gift of discerning
(Acts 18:23)
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NEXT 7 YEARS
• Migrate to the North ( Acts 18:24-28)
• Church Leaders visit to encourage
them
( Acts 18:23)
63. Today’s Priesthood an unnecessary
mediatory system
Every believer- a priest!
God wants to
relate with each soul,
• establish a personal relationship with
each soul,
• Without a mediator,
• Whether Priest,Clergy,evangelist,
nobody should stand in between!
• After catching a fish, entrust it with
the Master and Shepherd! No Soul
belongs to pastor or priest!
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CHURCH FAILURE
Salvation =
bringing out a soul from World’s
security bondage
Church – today has become another security
bondage
Believer’s security =
the church or the LORD ?
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MODEL CHURCH
• 5 fold ministries
• 5 fingers
• Today 6th
finger, 7th
finger,
• fingers hanging all over the body!
• Real fingers gone numb!
• Body looks ugly!
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MODEL CHURCH
• All minitries
outside the
church
should have
been
incorporated
into the
Church!
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Other gifts- not
recognised
Not valued
Not considered as
gifts given by
Spirit to build the
temple of Christ!
All want to become
pastors
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• All the gifted persons-forced to become
pastors
• Bible colleges-pastor producing factories
• Many self-made pastors
• Once made pastor- has to catch sheep
• Pitiable condition!
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• Pastors failed to identify the
gifts in believers
• Gifts neglected
• Those who had gifts found
ministry outside the church
• Even expelled from the church!
• Many succumbed to the ill-
treatment and were
backslidden
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Where the church failed they became
substitutes!
• Independent Missionary
Organisations-unnecessary shoot-ups!
Due to the failure of the Church!
• They became para churches!
All of them should have been
functioning inside the Church!
All should function united as parts
of the same body!