OUR PRIMARY ASSIGNMENT: We were encouraged by the amazing reports of the growth of our Church especially through the Missionary Dioceses. Within a short space of time the new Dioceses have done what is not financially quantifiable by planting over 400 new congregations. We are not yet done as we are regularly confronted by the urgent need to open more mission frontiers within the country. Therefore, it behoves all of us to subscribe wholeheartedly to Christ mandate to the Church to be His faithful witness (Matt 28:19 ff) The early apostles heeded the call and the result was amazingly wonderful. God is still in the business of repeat performance even at greater and incredible result. Let us all resolve to work for the Lord that the vision 1:1:3 will be achieved. How beautiful and wonderful are the feet of those who proclaim the good news (Isaiah 52:7). The Church of God is moving forward and the gate of hell cannot and will NOT prevail against it. Our witness to Christ is our indebtedness to all the people we meet on our life’s pilgrimage. As we wait on the Lord all impossibilities shall become possible.
What a godly letter! And he certainly applies faith to life in specific, “contextual” ways, seeking to bring biblical practice to each area of life. Praise God!
I congratulate Nigeria for its work at the harvest. I also would encourage them to make sure of their numbers being solid accounts of who are “returning witnesses”. But I’m not being cynical: we might be seeing a tide like flow towards Christianity in Nigeria.
I liked this comment:
“THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA IS NOT “A HOUSE OF CEREMONYâ€
There is a new trend whereby those who were nurtured and grew up in the Anglican church, who had their education and had indeed been established in life but have now been lured to new
generation assemblies to which they give unqualified loyalty and commitment, come back to the
Anglican Church to ask for ceremonies such as baptism of their children, wedding for their children or wards and burial rites for deceased relations. You are encouraged to remain steadfast and not allow the church to be turned into a house of ceremonies or dumping ground.”
Imagine if ‘Western’ Anglicanism said the same!