Month: July 2019

The Christian Church: Clueless – Go Make Disciples – Marketplace Discipleship – The Kingdom Strikes back | 5-Minutes Clip and Are You a Disciple or Just a Christian? | 10-Minutes Clip – Part 10 of 12 #Church #TheChristianChurch #Jesus #Christians #Christianity #Disciples #DiscipleMaking #HouseChurches #Movement #SecularChurches #Clueless #CluelessGoMakeDisciples #movement #Stories #discipleship #Workplace #missionfields #DiscipleshipInTheWorkplace #MarketplaceDiscipleship #EdmundChan #AllenParr Subject – Go Make Disciples – Marketplace Discipleship – The Kingdom Strikes back | 5-Minutes Clip and Are You a Disciple or Just a Christian? | 10-Minutes Clip – Part 10 of 12 OTAKADA.org content count 2,115,757 Sunday, 21st of July 2019 Blog link: https://www.otakada.org/ Nuggets of Wisdom “I believe that one of the next great moves of God is going to be through the believers in the workplace.” —Billy Graham “What is the greatest crisis of discipleship in the life of the Church today? Is it the crisis of spiritual consumerism, carnality, prayerlessness, leadership or all of the above? The greatest crisis is that we cannot see the crisis! We cannot define the very terms of discipleship Jesus has given us: “If any man come after me, let him deny himself, take up his cross daily and follow me.’ (Luke 9:23). If you are trying to understand why it doesn’t work, learn the fundamental principles by which the lordship of Jesus and the dynamic Kingdom life of discipleship can be realized in your life and in your church. There’s a truth, a fundamental call, a spiritual dynamic that will change your life and your church! ” – Rev. Edmund Chan “Are you a disciple or just a Christian? Is there a difference between the two? Jesus told us to go and make disciples, but instead we make Christians. We are often guilty of not preparing people for what it TRULY means to be a fully-devoted follower of Jesus Christ. In Luke 14:25-35 Jesus is brutally honest about what it means to be a disciple rather than just being a Christian.” – Allen Parr “Can you contemplate a world without salt and light? That is what Jesus has called us to be and if we don’t live up to the task, somebody else will and we can’t dictate the outcome” – Monday Ogwuojo Ogbe – Otakada.org – Matthew 5:13-16 Key verses for Today: Matthew 28:18-20 Amplified Bible (AMP) 18 Jesus came up and said to them, “All authority (all power of absolute rule) in heaven and on earth has been given to Me. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations [help the people to learn of Me, believe in Me, and obey My words], baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe everything that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always [remaining with you perpetually—regardless of circumstance, and on every occasion], even to the end of the age.” Luke 14:25-34 The Message (MSG) Figure the Cost 25-27 One day when large groups of people were walking along with him, Jesus turned and told them, “Anyone who comes to me but refuses to let go of father, mother, spouse, children, brothers, sisters—yes, even one’s own self!—can’t be my disciple. Anyone who won’t shoulder his own cross and follow behind me can’t be my disciple. 28-30 “Is there anyone here who, planning to build a new house, doesn’t first sit down and figure the cost so you’ll know if you can complete it? If you only get the foundation laid and then run out of money, you’re going to look pretty foolish. Everyone passing by will poke fun at you: ‘He started something he couldn’t finish.’ 31-32 “Or can you imagine a king going into battle against another king without first deciding whether it is possible with his ten thousand troops to face the twenty thousand troops of the other? And if he decides he can’t, won’t he send an emissary and work out a truce? 33 “Simply put, if you’re not willing to take what is dearest to you, whether plans or people, and kiss it good-bye, you can’t be my disciple. 34 “Salt is excellent. But if the salt goes flat, it’s useless, good for nothing. “Are you listening to this? Really listening?” Introduction Dear brethren, welcome to the tenth series on the Christian church – Go make disciples. Today, we exploring two inputs from Rev Edmund Chan on the need to engage the marketplace and Allen Parr providing us the litmus test for who is a disciple and who is not so that we can consider, learn and apply to our specific situation and circumstances – Your life, my life and everything and everyone around us are our mission fields. Don’t ever settle to the mindset that when you are out of your immediate environment, then mission field happens. Mission field is right in your home, your immediate environment, your work place, your trip to places you have been and seen, our struggle and victories through lives up and downs and how we are able to keep our heads above water, through it all by His grace. Mission field is essentially borderless… MARKETPLACE DISCIPLESHIP: THE KINGDOM STRIKES BACK! How do we redeem the marketplace for Jesus? Think for a moment. Where do the MAJORITY of men and women spend a MAJORITY of their time interacting with a MAJORITY of the lost world? At church? In the neighbourhood? NO. In the workplace! Yet, as Doug Sherman, in Your Work Matters to God, indicates: “Our surveys reveal that 90-97% of Christians have never heard a sermon relating biblical principles to their work life.” For many, work can be a drag. Many find their jobs unfulfilling. They hate Mondays and can’t wait for Fridays. They live for weekends and vacations. According to a Princeton management survey of the American public, 62% of Americans say they hate their jobs! Is that the way it’s supposed to be? What should be the Christian’s response to work? Conclusion and prayer. In our Christian race, the

By ambassador@otakada.org

July 20, 2019July 20, 2019

The Christian Church: Clueless – Go Make Disciples – Stories from the mission fields of our lives – Navigator’s Kingdom Impact in the Workplace: Coming Alongside Co-Workers – DISCIPLESHIP AT WORK: ROB AND HIS SMALL GROUP – Part 9 of 12 #Church #TheChristianChurch #Jesus #Christians #Christianity #Disciples #DiscipleMaking #SpiritualGifts #FiveFoldMinistry #ChurchPlantingMovement #HouseChurches #Movement #SecularChurches #Clueless #CluelessGoMakeDisciples #movement #refugee #Europe #Stories #migration #discipleship #migrants #homeland #MigrantCrisis #Grace #SinGrace #GraceSin #Salvation #SalvationPrayer #Workplace #ComingAlongSide #Navigators #otakada.org #missionfields #DiscipleshipInTheWorkplace #JohnWesley #GregOgden #MotherTheresa #Pele #CharlesSwindoll #MartinLuther #CaesarKalinowski Subject – Go Make Disciples – Stories from the mission fields of our lives – Navigator’s Kingdom Impact in the Workplace: Coming Alongside Co-Workers – DISCIPLESHIP AT WORK: ROB AND HIS SMALL GROUP – Part 9 of 12 OTAKADA.org content count 2,115,755 Sunday, 14th of July 2019 Blog link: https://www.otakada.org/ Watch this 3.36sc video – 6 Simple Ways to Make Disciples Without Adding Anything To Your Schedule – Caesar Kalinowski Nuggets of Wisdom “Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin, and desire nothing but God, and I care not a straw whether they be clergymen or laymen; such alone will shake the gates of hell and set up the kingdom of heaven on earth. God does nothing but in answer to prayer.” —John Wesley “There is a vast difference between being a Christian and being a disciple. The difference is commitment. Motivation and discipline will not ultimately occur through listening to sermons, sitting in a class, participating in a fellowship group, attending a study group in the workplace or being a member of a small group, but rather in the context of highly accountable, relationally transparent, truth-centered, small discipleship units. Disciples cannot be mass produced. We cannot drop people into a program and see disciples emerge at the end of the production line. It takes time to make disciples. It takes individual personal attention. The effectiveness of one’s ministry is to be measured by how well it flourishes after one’s departure. Discipling is an intentional relationship in which we walk alongside other disciples in order to encourage, equip, and challenge one another in love to grow toward maturity in Christ. This includes equipping the disciple to teach others as well.Every believer or inquirer must be given the opportunity to be invited into a relationship of intimate trust that provides the opportunity to explore and apply God’s Word within a setting of relational motivation, and finally, make a sober commitment to a covenant of accountability.” Greg Ogden, Transforming Discipleship: Making Disciples a Few at a Time “What a remarkable thing it is to recall that Jesus literally turned the world upside down with fishermen, a tax collector and a terrorist (religious zealot).” ― Greg Ogden, Transforming Discipleship: Making Disciples a Few at a Time “I always had a philosophy which I got from my father. He used to say, ‘Listen. God gave to you the gift to play football. This is your gift from God. If you take care of your health, if you are in good shape all the time, with your gift from God no one will stop you, but you must be prepared.” Pele “Because God gave you your makeup and superintended every moment of your past, including all the hardship, pain, and struggles, He wants to use your words in a unique manner. No one else can speak through your vocal cords, and, equally important, no one else has your story.” Charles R. Swindoll “We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.” Mother Teresa “For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.” – Martin Luther “We have slowly but surely eased out the Holy Spirit from our gatherings and eased in satan and his agents to propagate the ministry of stealing, killing and destruction. How else can we explain the moral decadence from within the four walls of our churches? – It is time to rekindle the fire and smoke out the dark agents in our midst. The ministry of deliverance and supernatural healings need to return to our cozy meeting rooms. We cannot be sitting on the same chairs for 30 years, doing the same things and not being propelled to positive actions within our communities – That is the dead sea syndrome. The Holy Spirit is ready and willing to return and fire us up for the work of ministry to reach the world for Christ. Are we ready? You can carry out an assessment via this link today to get started on the journey of making disciples within your mission field. Check it out! https://www.otakada.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/MCD-Assessment-spring-2019-Eng.doc – Monday Ogwuojo Ogbe – 1 John 3:7-8 Key verses for Today: Matthew 28:18-20 Amplified Bible (AMP) 18 Jesus came up and said to them, “All authority (all power of absolute rule) in heaven and on earth has been given to Me. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations [help the people to learn of Me, believe in Me, and obey My words], baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe everything that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always [remaining with you perpetually—regardless of circumstance, and on every occasion], even to the end of the age.” 2 Timothy 2:2-7 The Message (MSG) Doing Your Best for God 2 1-7 So, my son, throw yourself into this work for Christ. Pass on what you heard from me—the whole congregation saying Amen!—to reliable leaders who are competent to teach others. When the going gets rough, take it on the chin with the rest of us, the way Jesus did. A soldier on duty doesn’t get caught up in making deals at the marketplace. He concentrates on carrying out orders. An

By ambassador@otakada.org

July 13, 2019July 13, 2019

#Church #TheChristianChurch #Jesus #Christians #Christianity #Disciples #DiscipleMaking #SpiritualGifts #FiveFoldMinistry #ChurchPlantingMovement #HouseChurches #Movement #SecularChurches #Clueless #CluelessGoMakeDisciples #movement #refugee #Europe #Stories #migration #discipleship #migrants #homeland #MigrantCrisis #Grace #SinGrace #GraceSin #Salvation #SalvationPrayer #Workplace #ComingAlongSide #Navigators #otakada.org #missionfields #DiscipleshipInTheWorkplace #JohnWesley #GregOgden #MotherTheresa #Pele #CharlesSwindoll #MartinLuther #CaesarKalinowski Subject – The Christian Church: Clueless – Go Make Disciples – Stories from the mission fields of our lives – Navigator’s Kingdom Impact in the Workplace: Coming Alongside Co-Workers – DISCIPLESHIP AT WORK: ROB AND HIS SMALL GROUP – Part 9 of 12   OTAKADA.org content count 2,115,755   Sunday, 14th of July 2019   Blog link: https://www.otakada.org/ Watch this 3.36sc video – 6 Simple Ways to Make Disciples Without Adding Anything To Your Schedule – Caesar Kalinowski Nuggets of Wisdom   “Give me one hundred preachers who fear nothing but sin, and desire nothing but God, and I care not a straw whether they be clergymen or laymen; such alone will shake the gates of hell and set up the kingdom of heaven on earth. God does nothing but in answer to prayer.” —John Wesley   “There is a vast difference between being a Christian and being a disciple. The difference is commitment. Motivation and discipline will not ultimately occur through listening to sermons, sitting in a class, participating in a fellowship group, attending a study group in the workplace or being a member of a small group, but rather in the context of highly accountable, relationally transparent, truth-centered, small discipleship units. Disciples cannot be mass produced. We cannot drop people into a program and see disciples emerge at the end of the production line. It takes time to make disciples. It takes individual personal attention. The effectiveness of one’s ministry is to be measured by how well it flourishes after one’s departure. Discipling is an intentional relationship in which we walk alongside other disciples in order to encourage, equip, and challenge one another in love to grow toward maturity in Christ. This includes equipping the disciple to teach others as well.Every believer or inquirer must be given the opportunity to be invited into a relationship of intimate trust that provides the opportunity to explore and apply God’s Word within a setting of relational motivation, and finally, make a sober commitment to a covenant of accountability.” Greg Ogden, Transforming Discipleship: Making Disciples a Few at a Time   “What a remarkable thing it is to recall that Jesus literally turned the world upside down with fishermen, a tax collector and a terrorist (religious zealot).” ― Greg Ogden, Transforming Discipleship: Making Disciples a Few at a Time “I always had a philosophy which I got from my father. He used to say, ‘Listen. God gave to you the gift to play football. This is your gift from God. If you take care of your health, if you are in good shape all the time, with your gift from God no one will stop you, but you must be prepared.” Pele “Because God gave you your makeup and superintended every moment of your past, including all the hardship, pain, and struggles, He wants to use your words in a unique manner. No one else can speak through your vocal cords, and, equally important, no one else has your story.” Charles R. Swindoll “We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.” Mother Teresa “For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.” – Martin Luther “We have slowly but surely eased out the Holy Spirit from our gatherings and eased in satan and his agents to propagate the ministry of stealing, killing and destruction. How else can we explain the moral decadence from within the four walls of our churches? – It is time to rekindle the fire and smoke out the dark agents in our midst. The ministry of deliverance and supernatural healings need to return to our cozy meeting rooms. We cannot be sitting on the same chairs for 30 years, doing the same things and not being propelled to positive actions within our communities – That is the dead sea syndrome. The Holy Spirit is ready and willing to return and fire us up for the work of ministry to reach the world for Christ. Are we ready? You can carry out an assessment via this link today to get started on the journey of making disciples within your mission field. Check it out! https://www.otakada.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/MCD-Assessment-spring-2019-Eng.doc – Monday Ogwuojo Ogbe – otakada.org 1 John 3:7-8 Key verses for Today: Matthew 28:18-20 Amplified Bible (AMP) 18 Jesus came up and said to them, “All authority (all power of absolute rule) in heaven and on earth has been given to Me. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations [help the people to learn of Me, believe in Me, and obey My words], baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe everything that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always [remaining with you perpetually—regardless of circumstance, and on every occasion], even to the end of the age.”   2 Timothy 2:2-7 The Message (MSG) Doing Your Best for God 2 1-7 So, my son, throw yourself into this work for Christ. Pass on what you heard from me—the whole congregation saying Amen!—to reliable leaders who are competent to teach others. When the going gets rough, take it on the chin with the rest of us, the way Jesus did. A soldier on duty doesn’t get caught up in making deals at the marketplace. He concentrates on carrying out orders. An athlete who refuses to play by the rules will never get anywhere. It’s the diligent farmer who gets the produce.

By Monday Ogbe

July 13, 2019May 3, 2023

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#Church #TheChristianChurch #Jesus #Christians #Christianity #Disciples #DiscipleMaking #SpiritualGifts #FiveFoldMinistry #ChurchPlantingMovement #HouseChurches #Movement #CircularChurches #Clueless #CluelessGoMakeDisciples #movement #refugee #Europe #Stories #migration #discipleship #migrants #homeland #MigrantCrisis #Grace #SinGrace #GraceSin #Salvation #SalvationPrayer #Mahtob #MahtobMahmoody #otakada.org #missionfields Subject – The Christian Church: Clueless – Go Make Disciples – Stories from the mission fields of our lives – Memoir of Mahtob Mahmoody, A Story of God’s Grace – Part 8 of 12 Video post on salvation and story of Gods grace for mankind OTAKADA.org content count 2,115,751   Sunday, 7th July 2019   Blog link: https://www.otakada.org/ Nuggets of Wisdom   “If we ask God for a calm, thankful heart that sees all the blessings His grace imparts, He can teach us many lessons in illness that can never be learned in health.” ― David Jeremiah, What In the World Is Going On   “Grace is God’s best idea. His decision to ravage a people by love, to rescue passionately, and to restore justly – what rivals it? Of all his wondrous works, grace, in my estimation, is the magnum opus.” ― Max Lucado, Decision   “Generosity is at its core a lifestyle, a lifestyle in which we share all that we have, are, and ever will become as a demonstration of God’s love and a response to God’s grace.” ― Chris Willard, Contagious Generosity “The story of grace includes a broad range of characters – rich, poor, powerful, and powerless. For all of them, it is God’s grace that tips the scale in their favor. In some ways, these stories are our stories. For like the individuals who populate the pages of Scripture, we, too, need grace. But not just any grace. The grace of God. .” ― Andy Stanley, The Grace of God “The level of God’s GRACE you and I operate in is DIRECTLY proportional to the level of HUMILITY we exercise in our walk with God – My HUMILITY is directly tied to my WILLINGNESS to OBEY God despite my INABILITY to do so – That level of INABILITY get FILLED with God’s grace so I can obey HIM, not by myself but in my willful COOPERATION with His help – Grace is not CHEAP – It cost God the LIFE of His one and only SON, Jesus CHRIST on the cross at CALVARY – GRACE is not a license to sin but a License to wholehearted DEPENDENCE on GOD in the place of WILLFUL obedience even when I am WEAK.” ― Monday Ogwuojo Ogbe, Otakada.org – James 4:6; Romans 6:1-14; Ephesians 2:8.9 Key verses for Today: Matthew 28:18-20 Amplified Bible (AMP) 18 Jesus came up and said to them, “All authority (all power of absolute rule) in heaven and on earth has been given to Me. 19 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations [help the people to learn of Me, believe in Me, and obey My words], baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, 20 teaching them to observe everything that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always [remaining with you perpetually—regardless of circumstance, and on every occasion], even to the end of the age.” James 4:3-6 The Message (MSG) 2-3 You wouldn’t think of just asking God for it, would you? And why not? Because you know you’d be asking for what you have no right to. You’re spoiled children, each wanting your own way. 4-6 You’re cheating on God. If all you want is your own way, flirting with the world every chance you get, you end up enemies of God and his way. And do you suppose God doesn’t care? The proverb has it that “he’s a fiercely jealous lover.” And what he gives in love is far better than anything else you’ll find. It’s common knowledge that “God goes against the willful proud; God gives grace to the willing humble.” Romans 6 The Message (MSG) When Death Becomes Life 6 1-3 So what do we do? Keep on sinning so God can keep on forgiving? I should hope not! If we’ve left the country where sin is sovereign, how can we still live in our old house there? Or didn’t you realize we packed up and left there for good? That is what happened in baptism. When we went under the water, we left the old country of sin behind; when we came up out of the water, we entered into the new country of grace—a new life in a new land! 3-5 That’s what baptism into the life of Jesus means. When we are lowered into the water, it is like the burial of Jesus; when we are raised up out of the water, it is like the resurrection of Jesus. Each of us is raised into a light-filled world by our Father so that we can see where we’re going in our new grace-sovereign country. 6-11 Could it be any clearer? Our old way of life was nailed to the cross with Christ, a decisive end to that sin-miserable life—no longer at sin’s every beck and call! What we believe is this: If we get included in Christ’s sin-conquering death, we also get included in his life-saving resurrection. We know that when Jesus was raised from the dead it was a signal of the end of death-as-the-end. Never again will death have the last word. When Jesus died, he took sin down with him, but alive he brings God down to us. From now on, think of it this way: Sin speaks a dead language that means nothing to you; God speaks your mother tongue, and you hang on every word. You are dead to sin and alive to God. That’s what Jesus did. 12-14 That means you must not give sin a vote in the way you conduct your lives. Don’t give it the time of day. Don’t even run little errands that are connected with that old way of life. Throw yourselves wholeheartedly and full-time—remember,

By Monday Ogbe

July 6, 2019May 3, 2023