Every so often you read something that just grips you and tares at your heart. I receive weekly e-letters from an Organization called Gospel for Asia. It is amazing to read about how many people around the globe are hungry for the Gospel. Unlike us in America they do not desire great careers with cushion retirement plans, but instead they are carrying the gospel into areas of evil and many are losing their life and their families because of it. I recently read where one group of seminary students that just graduated in India celebrated their accomplishments by weeping with their families because they knew it would probably be the last time they saw them in flesh. They were headed to remote areas to minister and more than likely would die there.
In our country young men graduate from seminary and go to established Churches all over the country and many of them will work in ministry their whole life in misery. They will not taste of the joy of their service for God. Instead they will be bogged down with Church budgets and run around from one public service to another and try and put on the best preacher face on Sunday.
Where are the men of God in our society? What men are there in our Churches that our children can look to for support? So many Churches are filled with Godly women, but very few men seem to have a passion for God. The short article below describes a society that does not know God. It is barbaric in nature and I can’t think of anything so in humane in the realm of religion. We need men of God to reach the lost. There are billions of souls on earth right now facing Hell. Who will God send? What man will stand up and step out? Men it is time we quit worrying about the honey do list and work on The True God list!!!!!!!!
Jesus Saves,
RR
The information below came from the following web address: http://www.gfa.org/offer/freebook/worship-of-false-gods/
Reach down and find your pulse. For every beat of your heart, someone in an unreached area of Asia dies without Christ. That's about 80,000 people a day entering eternity without any hope of salvation.
In India alone there are more than 500,000 villages where the Gospel has yet to be preached, their inhabitants are still enslaved in spiritual darkness.
What's really sad is this dark affliction manifests itself in physical ways: social injustice, poverty, large-scale suffering and extreme violence.
Varghese, a Christian missionary, witnessed this first hand.
The Worship of False Gods
Varghese, a Christian missionary, attended a large festival honoring a false god. His sole purpose was to share the love of Christ with all who would listen.
That day, thousands of worshipers lined the banks of the Ganges River. Believing the river was a holy place, they submersed themselves in its water to receive physical healing and the forgiveness of sins.
In reality, the worshipers were bathing in one of the filthiest rivers on the face of the planet. Because of the religious significance, partially cremated bodies are frequently thrown into the river. The putrid smell of human and industrial waste fills the air.
Vargese approached the banks of the river as he moved through the mass of people. Kneeling on the water's edge he found a young woman, weeping uncontrollably.
Gripped with compassion, he approached her. Composing herself, she wiped away the tears. The woman shared that her husband was sick with tuberculosis and had been unemployed for months.
On this day, to make peace with the god of the Ganges, she gave her greatest offering. A half-hour earlier she threw her infant, a baby boy, into the river where he drowned.
For centuries this practice has taken place by people so lost, so hopeless, so desperate they'd do anything to find forgiveness of sins. They've never been told about Jesus Christ or experienced true redemption.
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