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Every means of grace must be appreciated, we are not
unthankful to God for the warmness of his wide open heart,
and wonders of his wise operating and engrafting hands. Yet
we have a dream to go beyond the what we have and seek
something greater then what we are sensing and savoring now.
We are not satisfied with what have. We believe that God is
having greater grades, high grade than the one we have in
the present life and faith. This is why we have added to our
ministries the sixth and seventh ministries, the seventh
ministries is called Monte Christo praying for great
Awakening and planning for the great Visitation of our great
God Ministries. Under it
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We pray for great Awakenings
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We plan for the great Visitation of our great God
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We expect great thing from God, and attempt great things for
God like William Carey; a model for the transformation of
culture and father of modern missions
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We approach God as beggars who are desperate for revival, we
need a refreshment from the presence of Yahweh.
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We, as watchmen who have been posted in our community,
country and continent, shall not give God rest in listening,
nor ourselves rest in prayer till he establish his Church
[the whole Ecclesia] and make her the centre for praising of
his holy name on the entire earth. Isaiah 62:6-12.
We are no longer able to cope with cheap grace, the grace
which people who have low view of God have been singing and
preaching.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a Lutheran Pastor who died as martyr by
the hand of Hitler in April 1945; has left us puzzling when
he gave us the dichotomy between “cheap grace” and “costly
grace.”
“…Cheap grace Bonhoeffer wrote, “is the grace we bestow on
ourselves … grace without discipline … grace without the
cross … grace without Jesus, living and incarnate … grace
without price … grace without cost … It is a grace sold on
the market … the sacrament; the forgiveness of sin; the
consolations of religion throw away at cut prices … a
justification of sin without the justification of the sinner
… forgiveness without repentance … Costly grace is the
treasure hidden in the field, for the shake of it a man will
gladly go and sell all that he has. It is the pearl of great
price to buy which the merchant will sell all his goods
[Matthew 13:44-46]. It is the kingly rule of Christ, for
whose sake a man will pluck out the eye which causes him to
stumble [Matthew 5:29-30] … Costly grace is the gospel which
must be sought again and again, the gift which must be asked
for, the door at which a man must know … It is costly
because it costs a man his life, and it is grace because it
gives a man the only true life … it is costly because it
condemns sin and grace because it justifies the sinner.
Above all. It is costly because it cost God the life of his
Son … and what cost God much cannot be cheap for us …
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For the above mentioned reasons, we are compiled to
investigate the reality of life and faith in African
continent, and asked ourselves as to “why does not African
continent progress?” massive reports had been given about
new development since
nineteenth-centuries’ missionaries passion. Yet Africa
remain at the some stage and level of life, faith and
frustrations. For sure something is need. We need help from
God, an intervention from heaven. Die to that, we
pray that, God in his grace might visit African continent,
that he might penetrate
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Our religious atmosphere
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Our political platforms
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Our Educational desks
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Our social podium
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Our cultural planet
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Our Economical empowerment
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Our moral behavior
Everything in and around Africa must be saved. African
themselves [we mean all African, despite colour, gender, age
etc]; we must all agree with Richard Dowden, and his view of
salvation of Africa, when said
in his book called Africa, Altered States, Ordinary
Miracles, referring to critical and problematic people, he
said:
“The policies, the aid and development agencies have for
Africa are not always bad - they often represent the highest
aspirations and idealism of the rest
of the world - but they take no account of the human reality
on the ground. From the socialist and statistic models of
the 1960s to the free market ideology of the 1980s, the
Washington consensus of the 1990 and the aid-driven
development of today, there has always been a missing
element: “the Africans.”
“Africa, Altered States, Ordinary Miracles, where he said;
“Bob Geldof first experienced Africa in Ethiopia, when he
bulled the world into delivering food aid to the starving.
Twenty years on, he resurrected that crusade and persuaded
Tony Blair to join it. Though he had paid only a fleeting
official visit to the continent, Blair proclaimed a “passion
for Africa”. He referred to it as a “scar on the conscience
of the world”, deeply offending many Africans. His messianic
mission to save Africa was reminiscent of the
nineteenth-century missionaries passion. That set teeth on
edge.
It sounded like saving Africa from the Africans… “I
hope Africa will recognize their continent and themselves in
these pages, but I write chiefly for outsiders, those who
have not been to Africa, but would like to know more about
it.” Mr. Richard Dowden, as true adopted son of Africa, went
on to say;
“From the rainless desert of Namibia to the diminishing
snows of Kilimanjaro, from the Sahelian scrublands to the
lush tropical forests of the Congo basin, Africa has an
extraordinary range of climates, flora and fauna. And it is
among African peoples that the greatest diversity occurs.
Africa has more than two thousands languages and cultures
and, despite the fact that we all share a single African
woman as the mother of the human race, there is more human
genetic diversity in Africa than in the rest of the human
race combined.”
I personal know, that the only solution for African
continent is “great
Awakening, and great Visitation of our Great God.”
Otherwise, people, especially “graduate of western ideology”
will continue to take the continent to the market and sell
it. [Please read the introduction to my second issue in “Grace
to the nation is a biblical journal; heading to Reformation,
seeking Revival, and expecting Renewal of minds and hearts
of the Namibian nation.”
It is posted on my research pages for July - September 2010
on the subject “the supremacy and excellencies of Jesus
Christ over the entire Church - Ecclesia”
As stated earlier, all these ministries are but meant to
keep the Namibian nation accountable to our holy,
transcended and the only wise God. All of us must tremble
before his holy Word. We believe - as a Local Church that,
every nation need its own
Jehoiada … to maintain it young kings like Joash … to mold
it remnant like that of Judah, and shape it generation like
that of Jerusalem … [2Chronicles 22:1fvs and 23:1—24:1-3,
15-22]. We are called to keep each other accountable for
God’s glory and godly nations, and to maintain local
Evangelical visions and global Reformed mission. Ours must
be a call to mold Christ’s people and assignment to shape an
authentic generation for God. We need a people in this life
that have a high view of God. Our home, church and our state
in Namibia, Africa and the world at large need a people who
have a workable worldview: we need people who have
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A high view of God’s sovereignty over the whole creation.
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A high view of Christ’s supremacy over the entire Church
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A high view of the Holy Spirit’s saving power and securing
presence over the precious souls of the elect.
We need age bands that have
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A high view of a local Evangelical vision for global
Reformed mission
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A high view of Christian ministries
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A high view of sola 5 [sola Scriptura, sola Gratia, sola
Christus, sola Fide, and sola Deo gloria] which means;
Scripture alone, Grace alone, Christ alone, Faith alone and
to God alone be the glory.
We need a generation that has a Christian worldview, in a
Christ-centered perspective, we mean a people who have
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A biblical concept of God’s main intention for creating men
in his image.
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A biblical concept of Christ’s unique plan for dying to save
the elect.
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A biblical concept of the Holy Spirit’s sole mission as
Life-giving source.
We need a body of believers who maintain
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A workable concept of life of faith - lived through God’s
promises and sustained by God’s power.
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A workable concept of the Church - both visible and
invisible
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A workable concept of a man - a spirit-man lives in two
physical houses called male house and female house.
We need age bands that have
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A God-centered concept of marriage - union between a husband
and a wife – monogamy; not polygamy.
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A Christ-cored concept of handling sex within marriage and
high view of having children, rising/bringing them up in the
fear of God biblically
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A Spirit-cordial concept of having a local vision in this
life, seeing the need for global mission, and savoring the
God who glory in visions and mission.
We pray for a generation that appreciates the foundation
already laid, a body of people that refuse to depart from
what is already rightly laid, but build on its unshakable
and indisputable truth, reinforcing, deepening and extending
its ruling paradigm. We we need age bands that have
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A biblical concept of an authentic worship of a genuine God
- people who are determined to maintain God’s glory as the
main center of their attraction. Yes we need a people who
have
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A God-centered, a Christ-focused and a Spirit-filled concept
of confessions, adoration, thanksgiving, petitions and
intercessions: people can imitate Robert Murray McCheyne
when he said:
“…I ought not to omit any of the parts of prayer -
confession, adoration, thanksgiving, petition and
intercession.” He went on to say: “There is a fearful
tendency to omit confession proceeding from the low views of
God and his law, slight views of my heart, and the sin of my
past life. This must be resisted. There is a constant
tendency to omit adoration, when I forget to whom I am
speaking, when I rush heedlessly into the presence of
Jehovah, without thought of his awful name and nature. When
I have little eye-sight for his glory, and little admiration
of his wonders. I have the native tendency of the heart to
omit thanksgivings, and yet it is specially commanded. Often
when the heart is dead to the salvation of others, I omit
intercession, and yet it especially is the spirit of the
great Advocate who has the name of Israel on his heat…”
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A workable concept of sin - forgivable and unforgivable. we
mean a people who knew that we are saved from the power, the
pollution and the practice of sin, but we are not free from
its presences. Being a good and godly Christian does not
mean that, you will no longer hearing rapes, imprisonment,
killings or seeing people fighting, swearing, committing
suicides etc. Though the presence of sin is a reality in
this life, we need people who knew that, true Christians are
men and women who are saved from the slavery of
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Self into service
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Sin into sanctification and freed from the slavery of
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Satan into savoring God as we said earlier.
Laban Shitundeni Mwashekele is married to meHileni
Panduleni Ndona Mwashekele. God had grant them five children
[two girls and three sons].
In picture 1.2.3. you have a list of their five children,
from a. b. c. d. e.
a. Left front is: Laamenange Ndinomwaami Mwashekele
b. First behind: Negalikano Mightypower Mwashekele
c. Second behind: Nedulokokule Mightytower Mwashekele
d. Middle front: Lamonamwene Hileniera Mwashekele, and
e. Right front: Neleloleumbolakalunga Labanera
Mwashekele
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Picture number four is pastor Laban and his dear wife
meHileni saying good bye to their brought daughter Germana
Severino. Germana has been one of the most helpful members
of EBC - Monte Christo for years. As you see; from the left
is meHileni Panduleni Ndono Mwashekele, second is George -
the bridegroom, third is then Germana - the bride, and last
is Pastor Laban Mwashekele. We continue to pray for people
like Germana to find right churches. Germana and George had
moved to the Republic of Angola where they found secular
jobs. We labor with prayers, asking God to place them in a
right church where they can offer their rightful and helpful
services for God’s glory and people’s salvation as she did
to EBC - Monte Christo.
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Prayer requests are launched for Pastor Laban Mwashekele’s
personal life, family and ministries, and much for God’s
word and work in his world to be safeguarded through five
main stages. Please pray for;
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Evangelical Baptist Church - Monte Christo, Local Church
Ministries.
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Evangelical Baptist Fraternal around our 13 Regions -
Regional Fraternal Ministries, and
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Evangelical Baptist Mission in Namibia - National Mission
Ministries, launched in and around Namibia, and beyond. The
face of Mission Ministries is jetting from beyond Orange
River to beyond Kunene, then budging from beyond Atlantic
Ocean to beyond Zambezi. It is influencing Namibia, its 13
Regions and 50 Constituencies. This Mission will not end
until it binds Cape to Cairo, and Senegal to Somalia. It is
not just a Local, Regional and National intended Ministries,
but as a body of united people, in wider sense called
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Evangelical Baptist Convention and Reformed in its
Conviction, is continental cultivating souls and globally,
by planting the seed of Reformation. Pray also that, other
Evangelical/Reformed Baptists Worldwide will build a
network, and lobar in harmony to met the need of forming or
joining spiritual body of autonomous local churches,
autonomous regional or provincial fraternals, autonomous
national missions ministries and autonomous continental
conventions, which in turn must constitute another body of
autonomous coalition called
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Evangelical Baptist Alliance or Reformed Global Ministries.
Call Pastor Laban Mwashekele to explain his view of local
Evangelical vision for global Reformed mission. He is a
current Elder Pastor for local
Evangelical vision and global Reformed mission at EBC -
Monte Christo, Windhoek, Namibia, Africa
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