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r posted by trevor saxby at 17 14 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels alonso rodriguez gerard manley hopkins majorca servanthood society of jesus unknown friday 8 march 2013 radical outreach the hallelujah lasses the great question in most churches which are at all earnest in their work is how to reach the masses this isn t some present day church growth report it comes from an english newspaper the northern daily express of 4th march 1879 and concerns events in gateshead the journalist comments that the section of the community that lies outside the usual compass of religious life comprised most of the audience more unusual still the work which experienced ministers and the ordinary agencies of churches had failed in has been attempted by a few young women these were the hallelujah lasses the stormtroopers of the early salvation army some six or eight weeks ago about half a dozen young women made a raid under the banner of a gospel mission among the lowest classes in the town and they have succeeded in the most remarkable manner they have got such a hold upon the masses as to tame some of the worst of the characters a thorough transformation has been effected in the lives of some of the most thoughtless depraved and criminal these women most in their twenties hired music halls for their meetings despite the sneers from all sides within a short time these places were filled to overflowing for three hours and hundreds are unable to gain admission the journalist gives a detailed account of two meetings which you can read here what can have enabled these salvation army girls to achieve such breakthroughs much comes down to the first love fire of a new movement in the flower of its vigour but we must see in action here the twin elements of blood and fire that were to become the army s motto a total conviction of the power of jesus redeeming blood to save even the worst together with the freshness of the holy spirit s filling for which salvationists spent whole nights of prayer kept them pressing into territory where other feared to go and expecting results they also used the power of personal testimony the journalist tells of the roughest and most criminal of people glorifying god for their soul s salvation and the army used the passion of youth one youth who is evidently not more than fourteen is quite a phenomenon and certainly has a marvellous utterance for one so young and inexperienced on saturday night we were told he spoke for twenty minutes and carried the audience so fully away with him that in the midst of his address three or four persons went up to the penitent form benches placed at the front of the hall where people could come and kneel pray repent and receive personal prayer the journalist concludes perceptively that what is needed in the work now is consolidation some agency to carry the converts beyond the few simple truths they have got hold of and to give them an interest in the work when the excitement of the change and the effort has passed away posted by trevor saxby at 11 56 4 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels christian women evangelism gateshead hallelujah lasses mission salvation army friday 1 march 2013 the pain and colour of the cross with easter fast approaching here s an idea you may not have thought of reading up on oscar romero recently i came across something profound and beautiful that was completely new to me the salvadoran cross its origins lies in the 1960s and 70s when people fled the brutal persecutions in el salvador and lived in refugee camps in neighbouring countries here they tried to reconcile their pain and horror with their deeply held christian faith what they came up with was very practical to think of all the things that brought hope and meaning to their lives children a sunrise bible stories their village etc and to paint them in vivid colours on to wooden crosses the results are not only strikingly beautiful they are also a moving expression of the message of easter pain sorrow hope devotion and worship meet in the cross of jesus christ the link above gives some examples and even a template which you can use to design your own salvadoran cross now there s a different kind of easter meditation posted by trevor saxby at 20 33 no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels easter el salvador oscar romero salvadoran cross suffering thursday 28 february 2013 aidan and alopen two 7th century apostles in god s great timetable the year ad 635 must have been a bit special for in that year two men were sent out on apostolic missions and in the face of great dangers broke through with the gospel in unreached lands aidan was a fiery irishman alopen a refined persian both were monks both gifted communicators entirely independently both were commissioned and sent to start churches one at the north west frontier of civilisation the other in the far east aidan became the apostle of northern england alopen the apostle to china despite their extraordinary linked destiny they never met or even knew of each other aidan apostle of the north britain at the turn of the 600s was a battleground of warring tribal kingdoms most of them pagan a christian prince named oswald was sent to the celtic monastery on the scottish island of iona for his own safety in 634 he felt ready to deliver his kingdom northumbria in the north of england he defeated the invaders and was crowned king one of his first acts was to ask iona to send someone to convert his pagan subjects an envoy was sent but returned saying that the northumbrians were obstinate barbarians beyond redemption at this an irish monk named aidan spoke up it was foolish to expect pagans to accept the strict rules of a celtic monastery they must be met on their own level with grace and humility for this aidan himself was appointed for the apostolic mission to re evangelise the north of england it was ad 635 he established his base on lindisfarne an island off the east coast which became known as holy island from here teams went out with the gospel planting churches and establishing centres at melrose jarrow and whitby by the time he died in 651 northumbria was almost wholly evangelised aidan succeeded by developing key relationships with those who helped to expand the work and by wise and creative planning he didn t do all the work himself at first he couldn t even speak the language but needed interpreters he appointed and trusted many workers other noted celtic saints hilda chad and cuthbert built up important ministries under his covering but aidan was a communicator he could empathise any gifts he received from the wealthy he gave to the poor this included a fine stallion given to him by the king the king was furious but aidan replied is the son of a mare more important to you than a son of god the humbled king knelt and asked forgiveness aidan s primary witness was through the genuineness of his life he refused personal gain showed no partiality rebuking kings when they needed it and practised rigorous self denial if the king came to lindisfarne he had to eat the same food as the monks and beggars aidan s approach was do as i do not do as i say and because his life was open to all people gladly followed and the church was built alopen apostle of the east in ancient times china was better known in the west than one might suppose for centuries a trade route called the silk road had linked china with persia and the west arab and persian merchants settled in china and chinese envoys reached ancient rome but by the 5th and 6th centuries tribal wars had shut the silk road and made china a closed empire the arrival of the t ang dynasty ad 618 877 changed all this the chinese army crushed the rebels and a golden age of chinese culture began the capital chang an modern xi an was the largest walled city ever built with two million inhabitants the reopening of the silk road in 632 brought a new cosmopolitan flavour the emperor t ai tsung tolerated all religions and encouraged the discussion of foreign ideas the church saw its opportunity and took it in 635 the assyrian archbishop yeshuyab sent an apostolic team led by a learned and wise monk named alopen they accompanied a traders camel train and arrived at chang an alopen had done his homework he knew the very formal chinese culture and the need to avoid open war with the buddhists so for three years he and chinese converts worked on the first christian book in the chinese language the sutra of jesus messiah a sutra was the way buddhists presented their teachings as a series of discourses alopen was playing them at their own game much reads strangely to western ears jesus is the heaven honoured one the master of the victorious law who has sent the pure breeze the holy spirit from our three one but the emperor was pleased with what he read and in 638 made a decree alopen s religion was wonderful spontaneous producing perception and establishing essentials for the salvation of creatures and the benefit of man the emperor commanded that a christian religious centre be built from public funds in the western merchants quarter of the city from this base with a core of just 21 christians the gospel spread out into the land four regional centres were built and by the time of the next emperor kuo tsung there were churches in ten provinces alopen was made bishop or in the quaint chinese spiritual lord protector of the empire and the church was able to put down firm roots in china which it would need when persecution was unleashed by empress wu in 690 the new testament says that the church is built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets christ jesus himself being the cornerstone ephesians 2 19 20 by their labours endurance anointing and above all love they become fathers to the churches as paul peter and the others did in the early church it may still be debated whether there are apostles today of the calibe and stamp of jesus twelve but the apostolic heart should be something we long to see outpoured more and more if the church is regain and retain her radicality posted by trevor saxby at 06 00 1 comment email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels ad 635 aidan alopen apostolic china church history lindisfarne saturday 16 february 2013 the incredible faithfulness of lena tikhuie in 1737 the moravian church sent a team to start a mission and community settlement in south africa they chose some land east of cape town and called it genadendal grace valley you can see images of the subsequent settlement here the local tribe the khoi were impoverished and dispersed but the moravians reached out to them and began a school for their children one of the first khoi to be baptised was a woman called tikhuie whom the missionaries named magdalena her husband a skilled hunter kept the community supplied with meat some of the missionaries died of disease however and the leader grew lonely and in 1744 was recalled to germany everyone thought the community was finished they reckoned without lena tikhuie having learnt to read at the mission school she gathered the people daily under a tree and taught them the scriptures years passed travellers returning to europe brought tales of an african woman leading a church at grace valley finally in 1792 nearly fifty years after the withdrawal the moravians sent a fresh team to re found genadendal on their arrival they found the ruins of the original houses but to their astonishment there was lena tikhuie frail and almost blind still holding the ground and ministering to the little congregation daily under the tree her well worn bible was still with her wrapped in sheepskin the missionaries were told every evening we all men women and children would go to old lena she would fall on her knees and pray when her eyes would let her she read from the new testament as families grew parents taught their children to pray when lena couldn t read a younger woman did it for her lena became a living legend in the area people came to see her one the wife of a high official in the british government wrote it was like creeping back seventeen hundred years to hear from the coarse but inspired lips of evangelists the simple sacred words of wisdom and purity lena never knew when she was born but she lived a long life always thanking god for his great grace when she died in 1800 her faithful perseverance had become legendary throughout south africa she was one of the first indigenous church leaders in south africa certainly the first woman and she had led the congregation at genadendal for fifty years posted by trevor saxby at 11 01 2 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest labels church history community faithfulness genadendal lena tikhuie moravian friday 15 february 2013 the country boy who fathered a nation conclusion hauge spent his last years on a farm near christiania modern oslo bought for him by his friends years of imprisonment had weakened his body but not his spirit his home became a centre for christian life visited by many he welcomed both spiritual and secular leaders who came to him for advice he wrote a number of books and articles mainly spiritual but some economic two years before his early death he gave this testimony to god s faithfulness and dealings i am 52 years old and have tasted christianity s joy and strength which had enabled me to leave my father s house and to offer up my body s peace and my worldly goods i have put my life in danger of death many times wandered alone through and over many wild woods and fells i have seen many loathsome forms of sin but in all this nothing has been able to disturb the peace and the divine joy i have through the teaching of christ my consciousness is at one with it and i only want to live according to its command in the darkest of prisons where i have sat for my testimony s sake i have had spiritual joys that exceed all the world s glory and joy in a miraculous way power is granted to all those who receive it in their inner being such that their souls become sanctified by his reconciling grace from this flows that purity and that friendship that far exceeds all other morals and friendships in the worlds let it happen at the end hauge was bedridden but still preached his last exhortation was follow jesus he died his face radiant with joy exclaiming oh you eternal loving god that was by no means the end of the story some of his followers held important positions three of them took part in the first norwegian parliament in 1814 when norway became independent from denmark after 400 years of danish rule the whole nation felt the effects of hauge s influence spiritually politically and financially it can truly be said that he fathered the new nation hauge s pioneering work in economic justice and ethical business continue to inspire t...