Rockytopva
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A move of God in India like in no other country!
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A Move of God in India
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Good preacher as well
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Glory to God!
I looked it up, and Calvary Temple India is also not coincidentally Pentecostal...
And they hold 40 days of prayer and fasting every year, and THAT right there is likely the bigger part of why they are prospering in the Lord Jesus Christ and succeeding.
Excellent report, and thank you for sharing.
Since 2006 I have been praying for and supporting India Gospel Outreach in India. They have a Seminary in several states of India and are truly dedicated to the Great Commission. Please pray for them if you can---they are doing a great work: https://www.indiago.org/ Thanks and God bless you!!
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As soon as I heard of plans to form forty-some "mega-churches," I stopped listening. If there is one thing that demonstrates an absence of God, it is the development of these kinds of churches which are rife with cult of personality, empire-building, spiritual elitism, false teaching and enormous numbers of "false brethren" who insinuate spiritually-deadening "leaven" into the Body of Believers.
I attended one such church for about a decade and these things were all true of this church. Which is why I left it and will never return to such a church. In addition to the things I've already observed, there was, in the mega-church I once attended, an enormous amount of money and human energy that was consumed by the physical infrastructure, the campus, of the church. You can see that this is the case in the mega-church in India, too. And to a far, far greater degree than the church I attended.
Imagine all the money that's diverted constantly into building maintenance, and utilities costs, and staff salaries, and building even more mega-churches! Millions, upon millions, upon millions of rupees diverted into these things rather than into missions and charitable giving to the poor, sick, and uneducated in India.
There is little of God, I think, in the "sound and fury" of the mega-church. But there are always men (and women) eager for a piece of the "money-pie" generated by such "ministries" and the notoriety of being a leader in these kinds of churches. And there is no end of people who want to be right in the middle of "the next, big thing," stimulated and excited by the dancing lights and noise of the mega-church "show," and the unique energy of the Mob (often mistaken for the presence of the Holy Spirit).
Do the majority of attendees really know and love God, though? The very size of the church makes it impossible for the Elders of the church to know much of anything about the lives of the majority of the people in their congregations. Thus, the "mega" nature of the church ensures that they cannot deal biblically with the "leaven" of sin carried into the church by thousands of attendees. The huge problem here is that only "a little leaven leavens the whole lump" (1 Corinthians 5:6; Galatians 5:9). Imagine, then, the devastating effect, spiritually, of many thousands of people constantly bringing their "leaven" into these Church communities - and not just a little of it, in most cases.
Anyway, in light of these things, I find myself profoundly disinterested in what is happening in this mega-church. In time, the spiritual rot always present in such "ministry empires" will come out. God will see to it, as He has in so many North American mega-churches.
I attended one such church for about a decade and these things were all true of this church. Which is why I left it and will never return to such a church. In addition to the things I've already observed, there was, in the mega-church I once attended, an enormous amount of money and human energy that was consumed by the physical infrastructure, the campus, of the church. You can see that this is the case in the mega-church in India, too. And to a far, far greater degree than the church I attended.
Imagine all the money that's diverted constantly into building maintenance, and utilities costs, and staff salaries, and building even more mega-churches! Millions, upon millions, upon millions of rupees diverted into these things rather than into missions and charitable giving to the poor, sick, and uneducated in India.
There is little of God, I think, in the "sound and fury" of the mega-church. But there are always men (and women) eager for a piece of the "money-pie" generated by such "ministries" and the notoriety of being a leader in these kinds of churches. And there is no end of people who want to be right in the middle of "the next, big thing," stimulated and excited by the dancing lights and noise of the mega-church "show," and the unique energy of the Mob (often mistaken for the presence of the Holy Spirit).
Do the majority of attendees really know and love God, though? The very size of the church makes it impossible for the Elders of the church to know much of anything about the lives of the majority of the people in their congregations. Thus, the "mega" nature of the church ensures that they cannot deal biblically with the "leaven" of sin carried into the church by thousands of attendees. The huge problem here is that only "a little leaven leavens the whole lump" (1 Corinthians 5:6; Galatians 5:9). Imagine, then, the devastating effect, spiritually, of many thousands of people constantly bringing their "leaven" into these Church communities - and not just a little of it, in most cases.
Anyway, in light of these things, I find myself profoundly disinterested in what is happening in this mega-church. In time, the spiritual rot always present in such "ministry empires" will come out. God will see to it, as He has in so many North American mega-churches.
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Back in the early 2000's I made a friend from India, Anil Palepu, in a Christian chatroom and we became very good friends. During that time He was called of God to start a ministry in India, which is now called Miracle Restoration Revival. I helped him with all the India regulations for starting a ministry, which was going through a lot of red tape seeing it is a Hindu nation, but God prevailed and now today the Ministry works in the Yanadi community helping to meet the desperate needs of the community as per Matthew 25:33-40. The persecution even to death comes against the ministry as some Pastors have been killed, church's, homes and schools burned down, but yet they never give up as they are very dedicated to Good and His ministry in India.
I say all of this as there are good ministries there that are poor, but yet God provides the finances they need. God's true Church is not all these mega churches, but being one in the body of Christ.
I say all of this as there are good ministries there that are poor, but yet God provides the finances they need. God's true Church is not all these mega churches, but being one in the body of Christ.
Rockytopva
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India is getting to be a great source of Christian devotions!
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CFC Daily Devotions - Zac Poonen
About Us - Christian Fellowship Church, Bangalore The church of believers that meets at Christian Fellowship Church (CFC) today, commenced with a few families that first met together in Bangalore, India, in August 1975. They decided to be disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ, first themselves, and...
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