Community Gospel

According to Indian standard, the community God has placed us is a posh area in comparison to many other communities in Gurgaon. We have been here for the past ten years now. Though we have been praying a lot for this community for the Lord to save some local families, we have not really been able to break through. I don't know how to express the feeling within me: Should I be ashamed or should I still hope for the Lord to do something? I would rather choose the latter.  So we keep praying for the residents of our community, DLF-1.

We have done at least three rounds of door knocking for the gospel preaching and attempted various other ways to preach the gospel. But, till date we have nothing concrete to count. The Lord does give us some good family friends, to my count, five of them, all locals and well to do materialistically. Indirectly I have shared the gospel to them. They all know that I am a Christian and I am involved in Christian ministry.  But this is just the tip of an iceberg. They have to be brought into the full salvation of Christ, and this is my prayer burden.

Of late, through some sisters in the church, we began to contact some other old friends. So far we have met two of them. The meeting with them was very interesting. Both of them are well to do single women owning properties and business in the community itself. The two of them are independent, carefree, and strong ladies. Both have a strong religious background but at the time are seeking for God; though they profess to find Him in their own sight. The meeting and conversation with them was very interesting.

To the first one, I preached the gospel by beginning with the thirst and hunger mankind have for God, in general, and explaining the spirit of man. After a detail explanation of the mystery of human life, she was open and I led her to pray to receive the Lord. Though she had her own preconceived notion about sin, still she could not deny the fact that she was a sinner too, besides all mankind. As I preached the word she was convicted of some of her past life and had a reaction that made her express her feeling. I was glad that she was convicted and she was also open for fellowship. We are now looking forward to more followu up on her and pray that she be fully saved and be gained by the Lord Jesus Christ.

Another lady was into some kind of psychological-cum-spiritual profession using "supernatural power to heal." I was well informed of an expected reaction even before we met, but we prayed and gave ourselves to the Lord to lead. Interestingly, our conversation soon entered into God and His plan in creating man. This gave me an opportunity to preach the gospel, Beginning with the plan of God, the fall of man, Christ's redemption, and man's salvation, consummating in the prayer to receive the Lord, I wasted no time, but preach the gospel. To my surprise, she was so excited and she felt very blessed that she could pray in her house, Our visitation for prayer and fellowship on the word of God was so timely. She even narrated of how she anticipated this as she was pre-informed by some of this day. Later, as I suggested for a Bible study she immediately responded with much enthusiasm. Instead of waiting for a set date, I felt to start right away, so we studied the gospel of Matthew 1:21-23. on the name Jesus and Emmanuel. That was a great gospel: Jesus, Jehovah God becoming our Saviour and Emmanuel, God with us. The Lord was so sovereign in leading us to visit this seeker, preach, pray and study the Bible with her. We now praying and looking forward to the continual shepherding of the new ones.

Lord, save, shepherd and establish such seekers for Your testimony in our community, DLF-1!