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| To the Co-harvesters |
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| Dear co-harvesters, |
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David S. Lim
Dear co-harvesters,
A BLESSED NEW DECADE to you!
May this new start find you in the best of health, physically and spiritually, even as we seek to do our part to accelerate God’s harvest in this big, fast-paced world!
We are actually entering the 2nd decade of the 21st century, and the past 10 years have been full of big challenges, esp. with the resurgence of religions and rise of militant Islam. It’s been a really big disappointment for most of us, esp. those of us who have longed and labored for the fulfillment of the Great Commission, so that the end will come (Mt. 24:14)! Unless we lead the global church to a paradigm shift in mission strategy in the next 10 years, I’m afraid that it will take at least another 300 years for our Lord to return!
Yet I enter 2010 with great hope! In fact, at the end of a Summit conference last Nov. 16 in New Delhi, I was unexpectedly awakened at 3 a.m. to hear God’s word to end my one-day fast per week for the evangelization of Asia! I was assured that “it’s as good as done” in the next 10 years, because of the disciple-multiplication strategy of the global house church movements(GHCM). (If you want to read our Summit’s reports and papers, please check out them at www.222foundation.org). In the previous day’s GHCM Summit Steering Group meeting, I got confirmation of my past conviction that reaching the still-unreached peoples in the world will be accomplished almost solely by equipping all Christians (99.97% non-clergy) to exercise their royal priesthood, to make disciples of their friends and neighbors! (Recent statistics show that 86% of today’s non-Christians say that they have no Christian friends!)
As we work and prepare to gather this coming October for our second Asia Mission Leaders’ Forum (AMLF 2010) to fellowship and strategize together, and our first ASFM (Asian Society for Frontier Mission) Conference to learn from one another’s “best practices,” let us try our best to equip as many friends and colleagues to set up Christ-centered transformational development centers (TDCs where God’s shalom/kingdom prevails) through “insider movements” in the world. We simply need to follow Jesus’ missionary-sending method in Luke 10:1-20, and multiply His disciples through empowering a local “man of peace” in each community to do it! Looks simplistic and too easy? No, just “simple”! After all, if God’s desire is to save all (believe this?), He must have designed a simple (not complex) process by which all peoples can get to receive His good news! I count about 2,500 house churches in the Phil. and at least 10,000 in the Filipino Diaspora who are doing “insider ministries” today; what if they just double each year?
May God’s simple plan for world evangelization be accomplished in this new decade – truly mobilizing the whole church (esp. the laity/professionals) to share the whole Gospel with the whole world! May God use each of us to do our part to “share the blessings of the Gospel” to those who need it this year until His work for us is done!
David S. Lim, Ph.D.
Director for AMLF 2010
2 January 2010
(David can be reached at cmiphil53@gmail.com )
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