Rev. Wesley Jacob
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November 2009 M T W T F S S « Mar 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Pages
Dear Pastor,
Please recall my visit today at your house. Thank you very much for accepting our invitation for the 20th program at CPRI. Please suggest me a book for presenting it to our DG.
I had received your CV from Mr.Allen.
with love and prayer
p.thomas
cpri
Dear Pastor Wesley Jacob,
I guess you have heard from Job about what God is laying on our hearts for the Christians in India. We have every reason to believe we are close to the end of a twelve year journey. It started out with just helping a neighbor in need. It is ending with a large estate being designated to enable missionaries to do projects to spread the gospel worldwide.
First we believe Indians will WIN INDIA to Christ.
Then, like South Korea, missionaries will go out to WIN THE WORLD.
We would like to give them the tools to do so through multimedia. The internet cannot be regulated. A grassroots Christian ministry of ALL CHRISTIANS IN INDIA CONTRIBUTING can be downloaded. Internet TV shows, radio shows and movies (documentaries of great Indian Christians) could have great impact if the local churches were supplied with shows on CDs and DVDs in their own languages (rich in Scripture) . We’d like to gather one translator from every mother tongue that we can to do this, even if we have to teach them English as a Second Language. We’d like to supply the churches with electricity generators, water purifiers, get small village businesses going to bring in income for the church members to be able to help the community, and perhaps open secular (!) bookstores so the public would not be afraid to enter. They would have a large Christian section. There would be public debates between Christian authors and non-Christian authors. Contests and giveaways. And in the back, with a secure access, our sending and receiving studios where the translators, film-makers, recording studios would be busily engaged in spreading the Good News.
Job says not to make any plans until we come and discuss all this with you. But that is my dream. My vision.
We are unhappy with our dispensational Baptist church. There is little chance that I would ever be able to get the members to win our county, state and nation to Christ, although I have come up with several plans for that. They met with zero interest.
I hava a plan for solving the problem in Orissa. It’s called “Heaping Coals of Fire on the Enemy’s Head”. No one really is paying any attention to that one either. It involves giving 500 large gifts of love and forgiveness (rice and vegetables) in care of the leader (whom I am praying that Jesus will give him a revelation similar to that of the Apostle Paul on the road to Damascus) to distribute to the 500 radical Hindus who burned four ministers alive and caused 200 Christians to be missing and burned down many churches, houses and cars and sent 3,500 running into the jungle for their lives. Of course we’d help the Christians too. On each of the gifts would be a label ”
From the Christians in Orissa with love and forgiveness.” The government may force restitution and give protection (which doesn’t seem to be working yet. They may need a new police dept.) All this may do is cause the Hindus to unwillingly obey the letter of the law, but what they need is to believe Christians are not worshipping the devil! Are not lying about the Holy Spirit’s power. Are truly able to love and forgive supernaturally. They need to have willing obedience to the spirit of the law of plurality and freedom of religious worship in India within their hearts. Next to the gospel, this is needed to be promoted in India.
We feel India is poised and ready to enter into the modern age. They will get there with or without our help. But if we offered help while it is still needed, we would win the privilege of being able to influence people to listen to the gospel. There have been great strides forward in the past 10 years! Literacy has increased dramatically. Industrialization has brought India’s standard of living up. She is #2 in the world for computer expertise. Unfortunately, there seems to be radical communal groups doing great harm to the idea of freedom, diversity and pluralism. Public opinion needs to turn against this.
Only God can open up India. But we’d like to also be used by Him to do that.
I must quit now. Thank you for all the info on this website. I WILL be praying for you (my future pastor) on Sunday. And pray for my co-worker Abu, a Muslim to be convicted and saved from reading material on Christianity vs. the non-Christian religions apologetic material I’m passing along .
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Connnie Radomski
My Dear Sister Connie,
Greetings to you in the Pure and Spotless Name of our Savior and Lord, Jesus Christ. I am awfully sorry for this intermission in responding to you, and for not keeping in touch. Please pardon me.
To begin with, I must tell you how intensely stirred I am by your deep-rooted heaviness and burden for the people of India and particularly to the people of Orissa. I’m simply astonished by your Dream and Vision …it is fittingly as big as our God Himself. I am reminded of author and spiritual mentor, A W Tozer’s foreword to his classic The Pursuit of God, “…if my fire is not large, it is yet real, and there may be those who can light their candle at its flame.” I am particularly overwhelmed by the precise details you’ve gone into. Brother Job Anbalagan called me from Mysore
just yesterday and said that he wanted to meet me at the earliest
to pray and talk to me about something ‘very significant’. I imagine it must be about what God has laid on your heart for India. You refer to me as your future pastor and that you will be praying for me, thank you for these very affable and courteous words though I wonder if I am worthy of such.
My sister Connie, this may sound sharp but yet let me state, at the start, any person who solicits funds for aiding orphanages and the like should be observed with discretion. They generally send you reports, snapshots or even websites which has become actually fashionable these days. This has developed into a massive racket in India. The Sang Parivar in conjunction with the RSS, the BJP, the Viswa Hindu Parishad and the Bajrang Dal are just marking time for even a petty reoccurrence to debunk and ridicule the Faith. Not diminishing a few sincere and undisguised evangelical organizations who are doing incredible work and who mostly favor remaining unknown. Please do not help any ‘Christian worker’ in India except that you know the individual in person. Please privately make a visit to such ministries so you can judge for yourself their trustworthiness and faithfulness. I state this out of severe experiences as I was as well duped by such fallacious people, after visiting a ‘mission field’ and saw how ‘Christian workers’ lived in such wanton, ugly affluence while field remained starving and undernourished. I stopped gathering financial support for such. Please reserve your assistance only after determining the bona-fides and the veritablity of such ‘Christian workers’.
Now, about your plan for India viz, Orissa.
You wrote that ‘a large estate is being designated to enable missionaries to do projects to spread the gospel worldwide’. You went on to specify an Internet multimedia ministry, Internet TV shows, and computers for Churches employing wide screen TVs. DVD players and CD players to teach literacy using Chronological Bible Stories in all the languages. Radio shows and movies (documentaries of eminent Indian Christians that Bro. Job Anbalagan has written biographies and Christ adoring fictions.) Your vision takes you to, opening secular bookstores with a substantial segment on Christian literature, run entirely by Indians… brilliant! One translator from every mother tongue and perhaps teach them English as a second language. Then you go on to cite small scale businesses or cottage industries, so that Churches can become self supportive besides serving to the needy.
You envision providing electricity – solar or wind-powered generators, and then of providing water purifiers. To have public Inter Religious dialogues and debates between Christian scholars and non-Christian scholars. Don’t you think Sister Connie, that we need to draw out a more categorical and practical framework with sincere Oriya Christians as part of the team? To, in other words study and streamline this grand Vision. Perhaps then I will unquestionably be able to prayfully assist you, to make your God given Dream a Reality, in reaching India for Christ. A Dream I feel extremely accountable for, that you should be this involved only humbles me. Your plan for solving the problem in Orissa, includes the distribution of 500 large gifts (rice and vegetables) inscribed “From the Oriya Christians with love and forgiveness.” As you have rightly distinguished, since it is a State sponsored terrorism and intimidation against minority communities essentially Christians, the police dept substantially needs to be revamped. Inter Religious dialogues could go a long way for fanatical Hindu hardliners and zealots to recognize and respect the plurality and freedom of religions.
To me, India seems so self contradictory on the one hand we are told that we are poised and equipped to enter the modern age on the other hand we practice such Old Stone Age barbarity. As you say assistance is to be offered now, at this moment while it is still needed, subsequently we could certainly influence India for Christ. In the words of reformer and abolitionist, Horace Mann (1796 –1859) “Lost, yesterday, somewhere between Sunrise and Sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered, for they are gone forever.” Though the object and intention is pure and exceptional, the application of it must be streamlined extra carefully and in greater degree. For example,
Assistance to the Poor. An empowerment and income-generation ministry for abused and rejected men and women. To provide school supplies, toiletries, toys, and a Bible to orphans and street children. Each year such packs could target a specific village. Your group can hold a donation drive of specific items (i.e. band aids, garden tools, blankets, etc.). We could collect specific items that have been requested by the villages.
To create high-quality craft and gift items that could be resold to raise money or just help the poor.
Medical. To hire a doctor to serve an outpatient clinic for poor rural villagers, many of whom I hear, have AIDS. Along with a Bible, to provide basic sanitary and medical supplies, where I hear, even the smallest of cuts or scrapes can result in a life-threatening illness.
Education and Job Training. Many regions in Orissa have unemployment rates over 80 percent. The missionary must work to educate the oppressed Dalit people (formerly known as “untouchables”) and teach them practical job skills.
Biblical Training. When possible we could also support young men who are interested in studying to become a pastor. We can help them by paying their tuition and boarding. Perhaps start with one student to study a course in a local Bible college.
Get a video projector to show the Jesus film and other Christian outreach movies to people in the remote parts of Orrisa. The ministry possibilities are great and the opportunity, exciting. We could plan a camp for Oriya teenagers. To have a goal, say fifty teenagers this December (2008). We can think in terms of an outreach crusade, where all churches could work together to have a large outreach meeting similar to a Harvest or Billy Graham crusade. We can pray that these crusades will be effective in sharing the gospel without upsetting and agitating the already strained communal sensitivities.
Involvement. We can try to visit new churches and pastors once a year (every March, for example), so that we can see the growth or the lack of it. We must engage families, groups and churches, and provide them an opportunity to participate in a hands on, practical way. These projects can create a perfect backdrop for lessons about poverty to not- so- poor children, families and congregations.
Permit me to say a bit about Dispensationalism, of which I believe you, by the time are considerably astute with Connie, is a system of theology whose adherents strive for a consistently literal interpretation of the Bible. I myself started out from a strong Dispensational Baptist Church.
Dispensationalism makes particular distinctions between different periods of God’s progressive dealings with mankind, and between His plans for the nation of Israel and for the New Testament Church. Dispensationalism is currently the most common interpretive framework for lay-level evangelicals in the United States.
Many respected theologians I know believe Dispensationalism has actually departed from the only way of salvation which the Christian Faith teaches, if this is true, then we must say it has departed from Christianity. No matter how many other important truths it proclaims, it cannot be called Christian if it empties Christianity of its essential message. We define a cult as the true Faith which claims to be Christian while emptying Christianity of that which is essential to it. If Dispensationalism does this, then sadly, Dispensationalism is a cult and not a branch of the Christian Church. It is as serious as that. It is impossible to exaggerate the gravity of the situation.
I have the highest esteem for Brother Job Anbalagan’s maturity and spiritual discernment. We should have him in the core team. Founder of Wal-Mart and patriarch of one of the richest families in the world, Sam Walton (March 29, 1918 – April 5, 1992), once observed “True leaders go out of the way to boost the self-esteem of their people. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish.” The question I think that first must be answered is… how, when and where can we meet to discuss these revised plans, to consolidate it extra conscientiously.
Sister Connie, thank you once again for your deep burden for the people of my country.
Yours in His Matchless Name,
Rev. Wesley Jacob
Brother Wesley,
It was a joy having you in our home this past week in San Diego. We look forward to our ongoing gospel partnership of reaching others for Christ and sharing (living out) the Word. I enjoyed viewing the picture of your family on your blog.
Seeing and Serving,
Daniel Cookson