New Ones

The past two months have been very hectic for me. I was fully occupied with the proofreading work of the Recovery Version in Hyderabad. When I came back I had to attend to all the pending works at home and the office. On the church service side too, I have not been able to resume the normal functions that I used to do last year.  I believe the Lord wanted me to move forward and learn new spiritual lessons.

Last year I was very busy with the church service and shepherding new ones; some of them are online prayer meetings on a daily basis and some weekly. This year all those meetings have not been continued and I reckoned that the Lord wanted me to pray for these ones and focus on more new ones. Deep within I felt there has to be a new beginning in the way I carry out my Christian service in church life. 

Two weeks ago, a brother brought two new ones on a Saturday evening. He and I coordinated together to preach the gospel to the two new ones. It so happened that one of them had his birthday on that day. So I gifted him the New Testament Recovery Version and a set of Shepherding Materials, and another set to the other friend. They both heard the gospel and received the Lord. Despite me not being able to go out for the gospel preaching as yet for this year, still, the Lord brought new ones to preach the gospel to at home! 

The following week, one of the new ones came again with his friend who is already a Christian. We had a wonderful time of fellowship on the eternal purpose of God with testimonies of salvation and Christian experiences. To that believing brother, I gifted a set of Hindi Shepherding Material and Life Lessons. In this way, the Lord enabled me to meet new ones at home. 

And last Friday, another new one came, who was a gospel contact of a brother who is coming to fellowship with us. This new one got baptized! And yesterday, in the church brothers' fellowship we all felt good to recover the gospel preaching of the church in Gurugram by physically coming together every Saturday for corporate prayer and corporate going out to preach the gospel. Our burden is for all the saints to exercise gospel preaching at least two hours in a week and each saint bearing fruits and that the fruits should remain. All the brothers and the sisters too agreed that we have to recover the exercise of gospel preaching.

I believe the Lord will work Himself into each one of us and recover His heart's desire through us in the church here in Gurugram by gaining many new ones to bear His testimony.