The Church is Growing, where are we heading?

I attended the morning service at Calvary Chapel Kampala on Sunday morning I was very much challenged as a Christian.

Pastor Brian Kelly’s message was The Church is growing, where we heading?
He was giving an introduction to the series the church will study based on the book of Acts to lay out the Vision of the ministry.

He talked on 3 aspects:

The Principle- its simple God grows his Church. (Acts 2:41, 4:4, 5:14, 6:7, 9:31, 11:21, 16:5). All we need to do is preach the Gospel and God will do the rest. No need to come up with extreme mechanism to teach things that compromise the word just so that the numbers increase. We need to grow in depth as well as width.

The Place: The early church met in large numbers in open place, synagogues and the rest what could be likened to our church building, but most importantly they met at their homes and fellow-shipped together. It’s at these small groups that relationships and faith is built where we actually sow seeds to grow the church.
And this is where the church is failing. We do not built altars in our homes to raise God to our families we have left that responsibility to the pastors. It’s our responsibility each one to him/herself first, then family, then our neighbors then the whole world.

The People- this involves those that we end up giving the responsibilities to help our in the ministry of the church. Now this is where the wake-up call came from.

Right now the world over and in particular Kenya we are pointing fingers at the rot in the leadership of the church and we forget that the leaders are picked from amongst the flock, the congregation the body of the church. So the leadership is but a reflection of the flock, yes it’s their responsibility to steer the group but it’s not their responsibility to work out your salvation...for that my dear the onus is on you.

We have given up the coming together of believers we visit the church building once a week or whenever there is a concert. We have compromised the standards of the gospel we have lowered the standards in the name of reaching out and we are the ones who have propagated the devils agenda and made it easy for him to sit amongst us. We compete to grow in numbers but not in faith we look good when we attract the celebrities and have the flyest worship team we compete for airplay, our worship is empty and full of gymnastics we sing songs that mention God once twice and we ok that we doing gospel songs. What does that even mean the gospel, what does it mean to you as a Christian. Well all we doing is growing in width but not depth.

Let’s be like the Berean’s who tested every word that was given to them. We read not the word, pray less, fast when we broke and then fall prey to any doctrine that comes our way.

The church in Kenya [and the world over]needs to wake up. What we need is not to have the kadhis court or whatever else removed in the constitution; we have the best constitution the world can ever have, The Bible. If we follow what it says and speak the message of love the whole world will listen.

Let’s not be too complacent as Christians to even forget that the greatest commandment is Love. We will not have to worry about census results that have not been released to indicate Christians or Muslims are more we need not worry coz God grows his church and that is a fact.

My walk with the Lord has surely been tested and put to my face and as I was looking at my report card I couldn’t help but wonder if the figure I was looking at was my fee balance or my position.

But I have made a resolve. My ministry and that of every Christian is to know God and make him known. Its self explanatory you cannot make him known if u know him not. And I wanna know him and the best way is to find time with him. Seek his face.

I will build my Church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it, says the Lord of Lords.

That’s my prayer for Kenya, not so much a new constitution but a rebirth of Godly people.

Have a fulfilling week.