 The Lord Jesus Christ, said: "You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt
loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for
anything, except to be thrown out and trampled by men." In other words, just
being salt is not enough. In fact, if we are salt and are not being salty, we
are in big trouble.
More than twenty years ago E. Stanley Jones, the great Methodist writer and
missionary, was asked to name the number-one problem in the church. His quick
reply was "Irrelevance." Not that the church was inherently irrelevant, but
that Christians were failing to show in concrete ways and to tell in understandable
terms how the person of Christ is relevant to all of life in the 20th Century.
The number one way, then, for Christians to be the salt Christ calls them to
be is to teach His relevance, to demonstrate His relevance, to live His relevance
in every area of life. We cannot accomplish this by talking only to ourselves
and working only in the "safe" careers and professions. Being salt is not nearly
so much about having more pastors and missionaries as it is about having many
more committed Christian people thinking strategically about and acting on ways
to build the kingdom in such areas as public policy, advertising, media, higher
education, information technology, entertainment, the arts, and sports.
Keeping Christ bottled up in the churches is keeping salt in the shakers, and
He does not go where we do not take Him. We need to take Him everywhere and
show His relevance and the relevance of His Word to every aspect of modern life.
The process of obeying Christ's command to be salt is about penetration. Salt
must penetrate the meat to preserve it. Christians must penetrate key areas
of culture to have a preserving effect. It is about being inside through competence
and talent and, with God's help and the Holy Spirit's leading, offering scripturally
based alternatives to those things that are corrupting and evil.
New generation youth in India is that kind of challenge. In J. N. Manokaran's
book: Christ and New Generation Youth, you will find plenty of information gleaned
from news articles and recent publications which document the size, worldview
and dreams of this segment of the Indian population. The point however, is to
move beyond an understanding of the new generation, to a grasp of what can and
should be done as we endeavor to make Christ known to these younger women and
men.
Spiritual need touches every class in India, whether traditional village farmers
who have practiced the ways of their fathers for hundreds of years, or workers
in its new and fast-growing hi-tech industries. In cities like Bangalore, Hyderabad/Secunderabad
and Delhi, a new and upwardly mobile class represents unique challenges. "The
rapid growth of the high-tech industry in India, provides one of the newest,
largest, and most influencial unreached people groups in the country," according
to Dr. T. Valson Abraham (President of India Gospel Outreach).
People in this group come from a variety of religious, social and economic backgrounds.
Primarily, they are younger men (and women) who have engineering and computer
backgrounds. They have become the 'new rich' in Indian society. This is just
one of the groups highlighted in Christ and New Generation Youth, by J. N. Manokaran.
There is more here than just an overview of the new generation. You will find
hope and love and faith. Praise God for those valiant pioneers who are being
used of God to live the life of Christ with the youth of this generation and
do it such a manner that they are being drawn to Him, whom to know is life eternal.
Paul Landrey, International Director Trainers of Pastors International Coalition
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J.N. Manokaran People love freedom. Freedom is defined as the right to act according to ones will without being held up by the power or influence or interference of others. From a philosophical point of view, it can be defined as the capacity to determine your own choices. It can be defined negatively as an absence of subordination, servitude and constraint. 15th August gives us a great opportunity to celebrate India’s freedom as free sovereign political nation. There are various kinds of freedom. Do Indians enjoy true freedom? Political Freedom India is enjoying political freedom. The democracy in India is successful that people have freedom choose their own representatives to Parliament and State Legislature. Peoples’ will is determined by peaceful elections. There may be some minor aberrations where some people are not allowed to vote by anti-social elements or impersonation …etc. But, the political freedom is well established in the nation.
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“Today I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you.” (Joshua 5:9)
Brief history and background:Children of Israel were delivered from Egypt with mighty signs and wonders. God led them through his servant Moses across the Red Sea. Then Lord led them in the wilderness for 40 years. Moses died and God appointed Joshua as their leader. He leads them to the Promised Land. Unlike in Red sea, the Israelites had to step in faith (unlike Red Sea) into the water of River Jordan, then the water became still and Israelites crossed the river. God works out creative solution each time. Each of His miracles is unique. This place was called Gilgal and the Lord said: Today, I have rolled away the reproach of Egypt from you. The twelve stones were erected as memorial on the spot where the priests stood in faith. Then the new generation that was born in wilderness went through the ritual of circumcision to make covenant with God. They also celebrated Passover and ate the fruit of the land as the Manna stopped.
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(Transcript of lecture given by Rev. Dr. J.N. Manokaran during the India Missions Association National Leadership Conference, 13-15 May 2009) Prior getting into the contemporary challenges it’s important to understand the global and Indian scenario on the spread of missions. I - Global Scenario: Ralph Winter considers missions as three eras, but we will consider it as four eras. First Era: Coastal Missions The missionaries with the passion to reach the unreached were willing to travel to nook and corner of the world. In those days, the only possible mode of transport for reaching far away continents was the ship sailing through oceans. And it was logical the sea weary missionaries tried to establish them in the coastal areas or at islands. Many of the known sea ports of that era saw missionary enterprise reaching out to the coastal regions.
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J.N. Manokaran I. Purpose: To develop a prayer tool for the transformation of a city with the demonstration of the love of Christ through the gospel proclamation. II. Goal: To develop a user-friendly prayer tool that could be used by the Christian families, fellowship, prayer groups and churches that brings transformation in a city. III. Format: The book would contain major topics distributed into 30 sections - one for each day in a month of concerns of prayers. Each section would have five or more divisions. So that the major sections can be focus of prayer on corporate prayer meetings like churches and prayer groups, family and individual prayers. An idea of the 30 major topics is given at the end of this manual. IV. Information: The major topics would have a brief write up. It could be around 100-120 words providing the importance of the topic, rational for reaching them and the significance of reaching them. Preferably statistics, current information and other relevant information should be provided. V. How to collect information or tips for research: ....More Download or Read the complete Guide in PDF Format. 
I - Training for New believers - Christian Salvation: Man is soul, body and spirit. Fall of man. Salvation through Lord Jesus Christ. Bridge Illustration
- Christian and New Life: (Christian Character) In Christ we are new creature. Transformation in thinking, words, deeds, attitude, motivation etc.
- Christian and Holy Spirit: The person of Holy Spirit. Indwelling presence of Holy Spirit. Work of Holy Spirit in a believers life. Fruit of Spirit and Gift of Spirit.
- Christian and Prayer: Definition of prayer, Individual prayer, family prayer, corporate prayer. Different models of prayer. Fasting prayer. Elements of prayer: ACTS- Adoration, confession, thanksgiving and supplication. Intercession.
- Christian and Bible – I How Bible came to us. Importance of reading the bible. Five aspects of bible – hearing, reading, memorizing, studying and meditating.
- Christian and Bible – II – Doing a bible study: Observation, Interpretation and Application
- Christian and Obedience: How obedience is important? What is God’s will? How to find God’s will?
- Christian and Witnessing: We are called to be witnesses. How to witness? Example of Paul (Acts 26) – Life Before conversion, Encounter with Christ, and Life after conversion.
- Christian and Family: What does the Bible teach about family? Difference from Indian culture. Role of Husband, Wife and children. How to have right relationship with non-Christian relatives.
- Christian and Church: What is Church? Importance of worship and fellowship. Purpose of church. Our role in the church
- Christian and Giving: What is stewardship? God is owner of us and our things. Why tithe? Blessing of Giving
- Christian and Missions: What is Ministry and Missions? How to pray for global missions?
II - Local Church Leaders’ Training - Vision
- Bible Study Methods
- Understanding personality
- Spiritual Gifts
- Christian disciplines (Fasting, Praying, Meditation, Simplicity)
- Christian Leadership (Shepherd, Steward, Servant, Saint, Scholar, spokesperson, spiritual model)
- Church Structure and Mission
- Management (Time, team building…etc)
- Communication
- Counselling
- Inter-Personal Relationship
- Christian Maturity
- Spiritual Warfare and Healing
- Renewal of mind
- History of Missions and Global missions
- Family life
- Holistic Missions
III - Church Planters, Missionaries, Pastors’ Training - Pastor and Christian Ministry
- Pastor and Family
- Pastor and Stewardship
- Pastor and worldview Transformation
- Pastor and Developing Leaders
- Pastor and Handling Crisis
- Pastor and Holistic Ministry
- Pastor and Counseling
- Pastor and Administration
- Pastor and Communication
- Pastor and Bible Interpretation
- Pastor and Special Ministries (Children, Youth, Physical Handicapped)
- Pastor and Global Missions
- Pastor and Partnership
- Pastor and Society (Human rights, Politics disaster relief)
- Pastor and Christian Education
- Pastor and Shepherding
- Pastor and Self-care
- Pastor and Mentoring (Capacity Building)
- Pastor and Information Technology
- Pastor and Vision
- Pastor and Spiritual Encounters
- Pastor and Anthropology
- Pastor and Spiritual Discernment
IV - Leaders training (Senior Pastors, Bishops, Senior Mission Leaders, Executives) - Emotional Quotient
- Time Management
- Change Management
- Inter Personal Relationships
- Personality development
- Stress Management
- Motivation
- Decision Making
- Team Management
- Information Management
- Family life
- Servant leadership
J.N. ManokaranExemplary Former PresidentFormer President of India is a humble gentleman, scholar, broad minded humanitarian and a great scientist. In the month of April 2009, he travelled to US in Continental Airlines. While boarding the aircraft he was frisked like any other passenger. The person who did this was just following the law of the US that expects all American owned airlines frisk passengers before boarding. The great gentleman did not complain or make it a public tamasha. The Civil Airlines ministry got a wind of this and gave notice to the Continental Airlines in July 2009.
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J.N. Manokaran Media excitement saw no bounds as the High Court judgment decriminalizes consensual homosexual relationships. Homosexuality is the manifestation of sexual desire toward a member of one's own sex or the erotic activity with a member of the same sex. (The Greek word homos means the same). A lesbian is a female homosexual. More recently the term "gay" has come into popular use to refer to both sexes who are homosexuals. The word ‘gay’ that had good meaning has become corrupted with this application. With the Delhi High Court judgment; Two consenting adults of same sex, from now on, can have private sex without any fear of legal harassment. Many so called celebrities said that this was overdue and right step in the direction of progress (!).
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J.N. Manokaran Thomas Friedman in his book, “The World Is Flat” writes about a wall hanging which says: “Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the fastest lion or it will be killed. Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle or it will starve to death. It doesn’t matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle. When the sun comes up, you better start running.”
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The dust and heat of the elections have settled down. The Congress has come out successful as the single largest party. Manmohan Singh got a mandate to give direction to the nation for the next five years. The victory of Congress led UPA is a great progressive step for India. The governance of Manmohan Singh is commendable. Reform in education sectors - beginning higer education centres in backward districts, mid day meals for children in schools, rural health mission, National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme, Ban on child labour, Right to Information law, tribal rights...were really great contribution to the nation. Rahul Gandhi's mobilization of youth brought results. People’s collective aspiration for governance, decency in public office, assertive style of leadership, learned politician to lead the nation, man with skills and passion was fulfilled in Manmohan Singh.
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