EVANGEL AFRICA

Have you noticed that we now live in a world where everyone is a specialist in everything? And the first victim in all this is, of course, Christianity. I have never seen a religion with as many experts as our Christian Faith. The Christian Bible, in particular, is by far the most criticised literature in all of eternity. And the target? The inspiration of Scripture: the idea that the Bible is the Word of God. Consult the modern-day philosopher like Joshua Maponga. Give ear to Muslim theologians like Shabir Ally, and I can assure you that you will hear them consistently attack the reliability of Scripture. Their outcry? “The Bible, as we have it, has been tampered with.” What they mean is that the book that you carry to church Sunday after Sunday is a bastard version of itself. It might have contained the words of God sometime in the past, but unfortunately, there has been so much copying that it has lost its original content. That argument, I admit, sounds very compelling. Enough to p...

Way beyond our local church walls, far above our doctrinal differences, well over our national boundaries and far ahead of our tribal divisions remains an unbreakable bond of all the disciples of Christ. Its a vast community of believers scattered in all corners of the earth. My hope is that by the end of this document, you will have a rough idea of what the Lord is doing in the Church beyond your vicinity. It is an update, sort of, of the current state of the Christian message around the globe, whether it's accelerating or deteriorating. Maybe it might stir your faith in some way, who knows, perhaps you might even have something to pray about.  Asia Historically, the Christian Faith has found a great opposition in most Asian countries, particularly the Far East. It's still punishable by jail, torture or worse, to possess a Bible in North Korea. Similarly, in China, there is still not much improvement from the terrible things that the Christian churches suffered in the 70s unde...