In an impassioned call for Christian leaders to emulate Jesus’ model for ministry, renowned evangelist and church planter Rick Warren listed five things faithful believers must do to win the world for Christ — and it includes “one of the missed verses within the Bible.”
Speaking to an in-person audience of over 900 international Christian leaders from 161 nations and over 5,000 Korean ministry leaders all gathered at SaRang Church on Monday night for the primary day of the World Evangelical Alliance’s 14th General Assembly, Warren, who founded and led Saddleback Church in California for over 40 years, said the strategy he uses isn’t one from America or some other nation, it’s God’s method, which suggests “it’s perfect.”
Having led the “only church in Christian history” to plant a church in 197 countries, Warren’s work through the Finishing the Task coalition is aligned with the WEA’s mission to satisfy the Great Commission by 2033, the two,000th anniversary of the Resurrection of Jesus Christ. The theme of this 12 months’s general assembly is rooted in Ephesians 2:13–18 and reflects the WEA’s commitment to making sure that every body hears and has the chance to reply to the Gospel inside the subsequent eight years.
Expressing his appreciation for his brothers and sisters at SaRang Church — which has over 60,000 members — for his or her devotion to sharing the Gospel worldwide, Warren said he knows of megachurches that “aren’t healthy” and have no real interest in sharing the Good News on a worldwide scale.
So why should the WEA and other like-minded individuals, pastors and ministry leaders take up Jesus’ model over the subsequent eight years, he asked.
To answer that query, Warren pointed to “one of the missed verses in all the Bible” and Jesus’ own words.
“Probably most pastors on this room have never preached on this verse: John 12:49.” In the verse, Jesus says, “For I even have not spoken by myself authority, however the Father who sent me has himself given me a commandment—what to say and what to talk.”
Warren, who previously shared that in his over 4 many years of ministry he has baptized 54,000 latest believers, listed the “five things that Jesus did in His ministry” that the worldwide Body of Christ must take up to finish the duty at hand.
Reiterating Jesus’ words within the book of John, Warren said that knowing “how one can say it” is the “biblical foundation for ending the duty of the Great Commission.”
“If there was a greater approach to win the world, Jesus would’ve used it,” he added, lamenting that “Many of us in our churches only get half the blessing of Jesus because we adopt this message, but we don’t adopt this method.”
Jesus’ method can work anywhere, Warren said. “I’ve seen the Jesus model of ministry work within the desert, in very small villages and in giant megacities. It is transcultural,” he assured, summarizing the steps within the acronym PEACE: pass on the excellent news; equip disciples; alleviate suffering — preaching, teaching and healing; continually pray and lastly, establish latest churches.
“If you would like the blessing of God in your life, in the event you want the ability of God in your life, in the event you want the anointing of God in your life, you have to care about what Jesus cares about most. He wants His lost children found. And so long as there’s one individual that doesn’t know Him, we’re commanded to maintain reaching out,” he declared, pointing to verses John 4:34, John 5:36 and John 6:38.
When Jesus was speaking with the 12 disciples and shared with them that He had set the instance for them to follow, Warren said He “wasn’t just talking about washing their feet,” He was referring to all the things He taught them for three-and-a-half years. “That’s the model,” Warren insisted, pointing to John 13:17 and John 17.
“This is something most Christians don’t understand. We do not get blessed for knowing the Bible. We get blessed for doing,” he declared. “The Bible says be doers of the Word. Almost every sermon, Jesus says, ‘Go and do likewise.’”
Jesus preached and healed, and the worldwide Church has been following that model by preaching, teaching and healing through the constructing of churches, schools and hospitals, he added. “This is a component of the model of Christ. This is why in every nation of the world, the primary hospital and the primary university were began by a Christian mission.”
Warren closed his 55-minute sermon on following the model of Jesus by difficult those gathered on the WEA GA to not only preach the message of Jesus, but to be mentored in how one can follow the model of Jesus: “Do evangelism as He did; disciple as He did, and do ministry to the poor and the sick and the hurting. Pray like He did and construct this church like He did.
“If we learn not only the message but the strategy of Jesus, we are going to win the world in the subsequent eight years.”
On Wednesday night, Warren will share two additional models: how the primary church in Jerusalem within the book of Acts carried out Jesus’ mandate, and the third model of God’s Word as seen in the instance of Paul.
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