CHAPTER 10

September 2, 2007 by Roger.

Epilogue

Now how do we accomplish our divine mandate in a world that is so complex and
changing? Understanding the world in which we live will always be a challenge. The
world is as John’s sea that ever changes and places challenges before the world
evangelist. But this is not the greatest task we face. The greatest task is ourselves. We
have in many cases digress into a churchianism that is ineffective. We must therefore
repent and restore the first works. We must remember who we are as the children of
God, and then get on with the task that Jesus set before us.
There are no magic formulas for repentance and restoration in this matter. I have no
sociological or pyschological paradigm to which we must turn and implement in our
lives. We have only the Bible. There is no magic methodology that will programme our
lives into an effective ministry to the lost. But we do have the Bible. And I might add
that it takes no Bible scholar to reach into the Scriptures and discover what must be
done. The Holy Spirit offers a New Testament textbook of what to do, as well has
several case histories of how common people successfully followed the textbook, and
subseqently turned the world upside down in the first century. Therefore, in your
personal studies of the textbook, see if the following concepts were implemented in the
lives of the early disciples in order to take the gospel to the world:

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