By Alwyn Matt at Coffee and the Word

This has been the mandate that I have been embracing all of last year and especially this year – 2008. There is something about the season that we have been released into.

In this writing I wish to focus primarily on Christians, but if you are a non-Christian, go ahead read and see the enthusiasm of this group of radical people!

Due to limitation of time, space and thought, I will only put in the most urgent thoughts and points for now.

In my opinion even if we have the five-fold ministry it does not mean we burden the role of winning souls only to the evangelist. Residing in a nation like Kuwait, I have the privilege to attune myself to the best of food, hotels and service. One thing I have noticed when I have been at any hotel or restaurant is that, at urgent moments when the waiter, the barista, the customer service or the executive is away for even the moment, the range manager would step into the shoes of the waiter. Why so? Because they understand the value of each customer!

The Manager in some cases may be earning a higher pay or even holds a higher status than the person being served but regardless of who is who, the corporate society has learned what it is to represent a brand name! My explanation to some level may be a bit too vivid yet it drives home the point!

I believe this system has been stolen from the Christian faith, the system of value for a soul; this must be brought back into the Church. Every moment is a moment to win, evangelize, cast out, cast in, and heal or whatever for Jesus. Few years back the Holy Spirit challenged me to take my “ministry” outside the church. I was shocked to hear what I heard. I replied, but Lord, we need music for the souls? We need the “atmosphere” We need the booklets, we need men in suits….Where did all this come from? Christianity started with men whose hand’s stunk with fish, but when laid upon the dead brought back life!

Since then, I have taken this with huge enthusiasm. Living in a Muslim country has brought in challenges but I still go ahead laying hands on the sick and even seeing them healed.

Preaching the full gospel

In many ways I believe the spreading of the gospel has been so limited because we are not preaching the full gospel. You may ask ‘what is the full gospel?’

Romans 15:19 says ‘by the power of signs and miracles, through the power of the Spirit. So from Jerusalem all the way around to Illyricum, I have fully proclaimed the gospel of Christ’.

This is the full gospel of Christ; we must step out, lay hands on people and preach the gospel. The Spirit of the Lord will not step out until we step out!

It is when we release the full gospel that we bear the full harvest. I do not know about you but I wish to preach the full gospel of Christ that gives me results for the kingdom.

I dream to see the day when I minister at packed auditoriums, stadiums. When I see a soccer game and I saw the magnitude of audience, I cry out “Jesus that is what I want!” What has happened to mass evangelism? I can literally count in 1 hand the number of top level, impact creating, result producing – mass evangelists. What has happened?

So much of principles, pointers and theory has stepped into the church. We need an army, it is not about big names, it is about the need of the hour.

We need an army of on fire, anointed evangelists who walk in integrity.

There was this one time, when Reinhard Bonke was invited for a group meeting, which got turned to a discussion, 2 hours passed by and Bonke said, “Alright, I need to go”. The top officials said, what happened, we are still in the middle of this huge theological discussion, what we talk now can change lives. To which Bonke replied, I am sorry but I do not have time for this, souls are perishing each second, the nations need the gospel.

We have spoiled the mission field because many people sit uselessly putting comments on things people spent hours and years in labour. Never judge a man of God, but instead if you see something wrong, learn from that and do it a better way than them and increase the results you get.

We must never forget, that Christianity was introduced during a time, when pagan worship was huge and the roman Gods were considered powerful. Why is it that, the Romans who followed their mythology, inspite of conquering half of the globe did not spread like Christians, who kept dying back in those days?

Again, because the full gospel was being preached.

We must evangelize or we will fossilize.

Be aware, you could be a mass evangelist like me or just a person called to share the gospel to your news paper boy or the one who serves your meals at the café, you will never know where you belong, if you are called for mass or not until you start with one soul at a time. I like to put it this way, atleast preach to the cat down your street!

The nations are waiting; see you at the field of harvest!