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What Churches Are Doing

Support Moral Regeneration and REVIVAL

In 2021, C4L promoting the need for churches to take the baton from Judge Zondo, and to run with it to the finish line.  Then the Zondo Commission asked for an extension.  Then it asked for another extension  The deadline for its final repost (i.e. volume 4) is 30 April 2022.  It's been a long wait!

Zondo has cut down the tree of State Capture, but the stump (ethics) and the roots (spirituality) remain to be cleaned up.  That is not the role of the Judiciary, it is up to the churches.

The Zondo Commission has cost the State R1.5 billion.  We ask churches to give generously to Revival.  Add this to every church budget!

 

Can Revival be induced?

C4L has looked into this by reading about the Welsh revival, the Azuza Stree revival, the first Los Angeles crusade by Billy Graham, the East Africa Revival, and so forth.

It is hard to predict the Holy Spirit, and perhaps not possible to induce revivals per se.

Bur we can keep praying for revival, and we can certainly work by Activism for moral regewnration.  For example, The Intergrity Pledge that C4L had treid to promote.  Including the publishing of Hugh Wetmore's book CORRUPTION - the Inside Story.  Churches can use this book as a thought-provoking discussion leader for its small group structure of home fellowships.

This book is also available from MBOKODO PUBLISHERS, as well as the eBook.

 

Jesus, Justice and Jubilee

C4L is opening its doors to individuals whose churches have identified in them a spiritual gifting of prophetic insight.

In short, C4L's new focus will not be to train "deacons" as it has in the past.  That is, those who deliver practical care to the poor, while other church leaders evangelize, teach and pastor congregations.

Some denominations are more inclined to include Prophets among their church offices (i.e. positions, roles, functions) than others.

Depending on the resources available, these individuals will spend periods on campus, trying to practice and enhance their spiritual gift.  Their sojourn at C4L will sharpen their skills when it comes to promoting Justice and Peace.  C4L has some tools for this pursuit, but will treat these individuals as equals, from whom we can learn as well.

This will be "learning" not training, and therefore it is non-accredited.  It will be experiential and vocational, not academic.

We encourage churches to avail themselves of this unique opportunity.  "A cord of many strands is not easily broken".

 

 

Learning by Doing

The following scan of what churches around the world are doing with C4L - as Mission partners - is telling. 

Initially, churches tended to support C4L's care and support to orphans and vulnerable children (OVC).  C4L moved past that focus as Unemployment replaced HIV/AIDS as the "super-crisis".

 

Promote Activism

Pietism is important but so is activism.  Great pietists like George Muller in Bristol and and his mentor August Franke in Halle were the first to establish orphanages.

But our patron Desmond Tutu was called "the voice of the voiceless".  While welfare and emergency aid are very important, at the end of the day - empowerment and advocacy make more of a difference.

This explains why C4L is doing more and more "public engagement".  Churches need to raise awareness about this, and to make space for those who "speak truth to power".

 

Marching

The following paraphrase, derived from a great black church leader, advocates for the cause of Youth:

We come to our nation's rulers to cash a check.

When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution,

they were signing a promissory note to which every South African was to fall heir.

This note was a promise that all women and men

Yes, young as well as old

would be guaranteed paying work and sufficiency.

It is obvious today that the nation has defaulted on this promissory note

insofar as so many of her citizens are unemployed.

Instead of honoring this sacred obligation,

South Africa has given its youth a bad check,

a check that has come back marked "insufficient funds."

But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt.

We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults

of resources and opportunity in this nation.

And so we've come to cash this check,

a check that will give us upon demand the riches of freedom and security of justice.

We have also come to this hallowed indaba to remind South Africa of the fierce urgency

This is no time to engage in the luxury of fat-cat salaries

or to take the tranquilizing drug of patronage

Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy.

Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of corruption

to the sunlit path of honesty and transparency

Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of malpractice

to the solid rock of integrity

Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children.

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