Real Sin That Harms Unity Midst Diversity

My wife Trudy, when alive, used to testify that she was saved from a life of deep sin and then

after a pause when people expected her to name the common list, she would name pride, jealousy, gossip, and lying.

We often wonder why God's work through the church is hindered and start looking for the outward sins, the ones we most often name because we claim it's the other guy who is guilty; not us and we can accuse them.

Here is an article that touches on the sensitive issues that seem to be tolerated. If these were corrected then relationships would be deepened and our church could be blessed.

I have had to examine my own heart recently, before reading this but this helps self examination even more.

Here is article that identifies the sins that destroy relationships and church ministries. http://thenewculture.org/articles/a-repenting-church-by-doug-tegner/

Serving Christ by Serving others,

Prayer for Unreached

Unreached People Groups. Would you like a daily reminded to pray for them. Go to http://www.unreachedoftheday.org/unreached-email.php. It is interesting that of the 6,000 plus people from at least 60 of these groups live in the US. Maybe you could meet and win them and they could send the Gospel to unreached areas.

http://www.unreachedoftheday.org/unreached-email.php

Report on Dallas / Kachin Visit

The trip to Dallas/Ft Worth April 15 to 19 was a special blessing mixed with some concerns.

Thanks for praying. It was busy but God sustained and blessed.

I went specifically to attend the ordination of La Seng. He was the first Kachin Bible College teacher I sponsored for seminary training in the States. I then had the privilege to preach the ordination sermon. I told of my personal involvement with La Seng and his family and the opportunities to mentor him. I challenged him with Biblical principles that God has used in my life regarding ministry.

I was also blessed by the personal friendship and humbled by the way they in their culture gives honor to me for seemly small things that I have been able to do for them. I think of James 3:1 that says those who teach are judged more severely and that I am accountable for the trust they give to me.

The fellowship and opportunity to counsel was very special. The Kachin food was sooooo good. They even surprised me with a birthday cake. I preached for a new church of Burmese speaking and then to the Kachin speaking church [through translators]. To me it seems they need to have more organization as a church but I know that unless they understand and agree, too many changes would cause confusion. Pray that any advice I give will be Biblical and not just our American Baptist cultural.

Kachin Son's Ordination

Kachin Son Being Ordained

I fly to Dallas TX on 4/15/10 and return 4/19/10 to meet with the many Kachin friends [From Burma] and to speak in La Seng Labya’s Ordination Sunday, 5:00. I will also speak in the Kachin church that morning.

This will be a great honor since La Seng is my first Kachin son in the faith. I went to Dallas to meet him in 1996 while he was in a MA study. He had the wrong visa and lacked support. After spending 5 days with him I could see that if we assisted a Bible College teacher he could train many workers. I gave him money so he could go home and obtain his visa and I committed to sponsor him for $100.00 per month. This was the beginning of the vision to assist three other Bible College Teachers from Kachin State to earn a D Min degree and from that formed the Closed Door Ministries, Inc. Our motto was “Assist a few to disciple many to reach millions.” Dr Phil McDonald has been the president since 2004.

This will be a blessing. It will be an opportunity to serve since they want me to advise and encourage in the purpose and unity of the church. Thanks for praying.

The Ultimate Health Care Plan: Rev 21:3-4 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, "Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them as their God. He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning nor crying nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away."

My Grandson, Greg Long helped draw our attention to the real confidence that God offers us.

God Speaks in All Languages

Do you need or want to share the Bible with someone in another language?

Below is a link that allows you to select 2 languages and then a chapter in the Bible. When you click submit it will show the passage in the 2 languages side by side. http://www.ethnicharvest.org/parallel/index.htm

Many people from other countries think God only spoke in English. Therefore they often think that there is an American God and then their national god.

From this same web site go to link, Bibles in Your Language, in top right corner to find Bible in many languages.

Help them learn that the God of the Bible speaks to all people.

To assist churches to Disciple U S ethnic people
to evangelize ethnic people worldwide.

Eldon
Eldon Brock, DD
Email eldon26@gmail.com
Web www.EthnictoEthnic.org

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Give others freedom to serve according to gifts.

The Importance of Allowing a Person the Freedom to Serve Jesus Christ According to His Gifts and Opportunities.

Eldon Brock, DD

I trust you are passionate about the need for people worldwide to hear the Gospel. But you say I can’t go to those restricted countries. Then you discover that some of the most effective people for sharing this message to their own language group live near us in America. If so you may try to direct and control them to fulfill your passion. You may even want them to do the work so you don’t feel guilty. We should accept the responsibilities and opportunities God gives so we can obediently serve where God places us.

We must always keep in mind that each person is part of God’s total plan. We are servants of the one Lord. He gives us opportunities to serve so He can complete His plan and reveal His supreme Lordship. Our responsibility is to serve where we are and allow God to lead and direct the other person to serve with his/her gifts. They can do things we can’t.

Therefore, we need to evaluate “what is in your hand”, as God said to Moses. We have the Bible, salvation, and servant gifts. We live in a country where nearly 40,000,000 residents are foreign born. They have great loyalty to their homeland. Our opportunity is to show God’s love and disciple them so they can enjoy forgiveness and freedom from the fear of their false God.

I believe those who are from a different ethnic group will want their people to have the same joy. I believe God will give them a passion for their family so they are serving God rather than being accountable to us, our church or even our mission agency.

Below is one plan for discipleship training. I like to remind myself, “The way we disciple may be the way they will disciple”. Are we willing to serve others sacrificially in a way that they will learn how to effectively share this Good News with people in their homeland. Let’s give freedom to others who want to follow Christ.

EIGHT STEPS FOR TRAINING DISCIPLES

From Robert Coleman's book The Master Plan of Evangelism

1. Selection-people were his method.

Jesus believed that people should reach other people. He could have used an exclusive barrage of miracles, or He could have brought everything to conclusion while on earth. Instead He chose common men and women like us to reach the world. This demonstrates not only His love for us, but also His confidence in us.

2. Association-He stayed with them.

With the first disciples, the essence of Jesus' training meant just letting His disciples follow Him. He drew them close to Himself, becoming His own school and curriculum.

3. Consecration-He required obedience.

Jesus expected His disciples to obey Him. He didn't require them to be smart, but He wanted them to be loyal-to the extent that obeying Him became the distinguishing mark they were known by. "Disciples" meant they were the Master's "learners" or "pupils". Later Jesus' disciples became known as "Christians" (Acts 11 :26), a fitting description of obedient followers who took on the character of their leader.

4. Impartation-He gave Himself away.

Jesus gave His disciples everything: what the Father had given Him (John 15:5); His peace (John 16:33); His joy (John 15: 11); the keys to His kingdom (Matthew 16: 19); and His own glory (John 17:22,24). He withheld nothing, not even His life.

5. Demonstration-He showed them how to live.

Jesus showed the disciples how to pray, study, and relate to others. More than twenty times the Gospels recount Jesus' practice of prayer. He taught the disciples about the use of Scripture by extensively using works from the Old Testament. As the disciples saw Jesus interact with Nicodemus, the woman ant the well, the rich young ruler, and many others, Jesus showed them how to talk to and how to treat others.

6. Delegation-He assigned them work.

From day one, Jesus prepared His disciples to take over the mission. He gradually turned over responsibility, sending out the seventy (Matthew 10: 1-42) and giving extensive instructions to the Twelve (Luke 10:1-20). He told the disciples to follow His methods, to expect hardships, and to go out in pairs. Following His resurrection, He clearly gave the disciples the responsibility to take the gospel to the entire world (Matthew 28:18-20; Acts 1:8).

7. Supervision-He kept checking on them.

When Jesus gave the disciples work to do, He followed up. He listened to their reports and blessed them. When He was with the disciples, He spent time helping them understand the reason for a previous action or preparing them for a new experience. He used questions, illustrations, warnings, and admonitions to teach the disciples what they needed to know to reach the world.

8. Reproduction-He expected them to reproduce.

Jesus told the disciples to pray for workers (Matthew 9:36-38), and He called them to teach everyone to obey His teaching (Matthew 28:20). He required the costly elements of leadership development and reproductions, and expected the disciples to reproduce by finding other disciples who would also follow Jesus.

Quoted in The Complete Book of Discipleship: On Being and Making Followers of Christ, Bill Hull, Navpress