Madness!

I just finished reading Madness! by Jossy Chacko. Jossy's autobiography shares how he arrived at his crazy dream of planting 100,000 churches in India. He started the ministry Empart in order to achieve this goal. Among many other forms of ministry, the main focus is training up church planters and pastors and sending them out into villages and converting people. Hopefully some of these men will leave to plant their own churches in different areas. This type of missions is unique, efficient, and well-worth supporting. I encourage you to check out the website (http://www.empartusa.org/)and read the book.

Some quotes that challenged me:

"I've understood that the greatest injustice in the world is not economic deprivation or political oppression. Terrible as such things are, they only have earthly consequences. The greatest injustice has eternal consequences. It is this: that you and I can hear the gospel over and over again, twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week if we choose to, yet people like Rao, Raju and Rakesh have never heard it even once." 

Chacko

"After this I looked and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people, and language, standing before the throne and in front of the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands. And they cried out in a loud voice: 'Salvation belongs to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb'"

Revelation 7:9-10

"'Stop! Stop!' he shouted.

I stopped.

'Are you trying to tell us that this Jesus is the only way to God?'

I was pleased that he understood so clearly. 'That's right. That's what the Bible says. There is no other was to God except through Jesus.'

'So you really believe this?'

'Yes, we do.'

Rakesh fixed his eyes on me. 'Then where have you been?'

I didn't understand. 'I've been in Australia,' I said naively.

'We've been traveling here and there around different villages," Sam put in.

'Well, how many others believe this?' Rakesh asked.

'Lots of people.'

'Then why hasn't anyone come to tell us before?'

I thought I was starting to grasp his point, but his next words really shook me.

'Now you're too late.'

'What do you mean, too late?'

'My father died three months ago and he never heard this truth. Where have you been?'"

Chacko