Skills Deficit
Skills Deficit
1. Why are Christians only followers of Christ but not fishers of men? Because they do not know how to. (Matt. 4:19)2. Why are Christians not seekers and savers of lost souls? Because they do not have the knowhow? (Luke 19:10)
3. Why are Christians not able to destroy the works of the devil? Because they do not have what it takes? (1John3:8)
4. Why are Christians only hearers of the Word and not diligent doers of the Word? Because they do not even know where to begin. (James 1:22).
5. Why can’t Christians make disciples, baptize and equip others and fulfill the Great Commission? Because they lack skills and do not know their authority. (Mathew 28:19)
6. Why can’t Christians be instant in preaching the gospel to the lost, in season and out of season? Because they do not have the competence or the confidence. (2Tim 4:2)
7. Why can’t Christians bind the strongman and cast out demons? Because they have never been instructed about the armor of God and how to wage a good warfare. (Mark: 16:17; Math.12:28-29; Eph. 6: 12-18; 1Timothy.1:18)
8. Why can’t Christians convince, convict, and convert those who contradict? Because they have never been equipped on how to engage and interact with Muslims, Hindus, Buddhists and other non-believers. (Titus 1:9)
9. Why Christians cannot function as royal priests? Because those who are supposed to empower them into priesthood of all believers, have themselves usurped their position in Christ. (1Peter.2:9, Rev.5:9-10)
10. Why can’t Christians be ambassadors wherever God has placed them? Because they only know the Bible but have little knowledge of historical, religious, cultural or missiological understanding of other communities.
11. Why Christians do not operate their gifts? Because no one has instructed them into how to operate the gifts of the Holy Spirit. (1Cor. 12:3-13; Eph. 4:11-13)
12. Why 98 percent Christians cannot witness even to their best friends? Because they have never been instructed at home, the church or the Sunday school on how to be effective witnesses and therefore lack boldness.( Acts.4:13)
13. Why can’t Christians offer lost people with broken and contrite hearts as their spiritual sacrifice? Because they do not know how to wield the sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God. (Rom. 15:16; Ps. 51:17; Eph. 6:17)
14. Why don’t your leaders teach you practical skills, even as measurement of success is your fruitfulnes? By now you know that they themselves do not have the right tools in their tool box. They have been feeding you soup with a fork rather than with a spoon. (Matt. 7:16-18; John 15:5;16)
15. It is the skills and the knowhow of how to make disciples that separates the profitable, performing and fruit- bearing Christians from the non-performing barren ones. (Col. 1:10; Matt. 7:20; John 15:16)
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