A Need in Pang Klang
From the beginning IGo has envisioned not just teaching and training for missions, but to also be actively involved in missions/church planting as God leads. We have been taking the gospel to the Lisu Tribal village of Pang Klang for the past year and a half. Now, we have a former IGo student and his wife coming to proceed with the actual church plant. God has provided property for them to build a house on, but funds are needed to build the house. A typical shelter in Pang Klang costs $6,000-7,000 to build.
Church Planting
“My people have changed their glory for what does not profit... My people have committed two evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water.” (See Jeremiah 2:11-13)
God’s broken heart for His people as seen in this verse really hit me recently. Even we, who call ourselves Christians, are often guilty of turning to broken cisterns rather than the fountain of living water.
Building the Bride of Christ
The earth-shattering commitment of the early believers was to follow Christ recklessly! Their abandonment to Christ is what made them uncontrollable in the eyes of most civil leaders! While God’s moral law was held in high esteem by these spiritual “renegades,” they had little respect for rules and theologies that took the individual’s focus off the Lord Jesus Christ. If principles and practices in any way obscured Him, they were seen as not only unnecessary, but downright dangerous; heretical!