Dear
friends and supporters of Reformed Faith and Life,
Do you believe that preaching the Gospel faithfully will have an impact on
the lives of people who hear it, by the power of the Holy Spirit?
If you are skeptical, and perhaps tired of supporting evangelization work
such as Reformed Faith and Life,
please take the time to read the following email which I recently received from
Kananga, a large city in the Kasai province of the Democratic Republic of the
Congo. Theophile K. — a Reformed
pastor who monitors the broadcasting of RFL on a powerful local transmitter and
can efficiently follow up our work among listeners— writes:
Our Reformed Faith and Life
broadcast is doing wonders in Kananga. Many
letters I receive repeatedly ask me to put on the air the same programme after
it has been aired. Really it is a
great joy to see this. Your messages
really counter the many heresies which are propagated from this radio.
I recently answered personally several questions asked via email by
listeners from the same FM station. One
person wrote: I am writing to you as a listener of Reformed Faith and Life, which has
become my favourite program on our local station.
Last week, my father and I followed the message entitled “the Church
under the Cross” [about the persecuted Church through the ages].
Its contents were rich and this allows me to ask you the following
questions: The Bible forbids to kill. How
then can a Christian be a soldier and submit himself to the discipline and
orders he receives? Won’t he sin
if he kills? Can one speak of the
execution of the Church today?
You can imagine that in a country like the Congo, stricken
by civil war, and by a so-called regular army which commits as many
atrocities as the rebel groups it is trying to eliminate, this is not just a
rhetorical question. The answer
cannot be simplistic either. But a
Biblical answer will always bring light and perspective to people desperately in
need of it.
Dear friends, I would like to emphasize that you are entirely part of the
chain of fellow workers who make it possible for RFL to reach this listener and
countless others. Yes, the Gospel,
preached faithfully, deeply impacts the lives of people! These emails are
vibrant proof of that. Pastor
Theophile and myself, the Reformed
Radio Administration Committee which supports our radio work from North America,
my local congregation in Pretoria and other Reformed churches in South Africa,
the sound engineer who records the programmes, my secretary who duplicates the
CDs and sends them throughout Africa and as far as France and Quebec, we all
form part of a chain of workers of which you are entirely a part.
Without you as a vital link, this chain will be broken and the work of Reformed
Faith and Life will have to stop. This chain of fellow workers has been put
in place not by myself, but by the providence of the Almighty God, through the
working of the Holy Spirit and for the proclamation of the Kinghsip of the Son.
Do you believe it?
As I write to you, several pending projects to broadcast RFL on other local
stations in the Congo are awaiting to be “adopted”
and sponsored by a local church. Please
consider these projects prayerfully, and think of the thousands of people who
could be reached by the transforming Word of Jesus Christ.
Together united in the faith delivered once for all to the saints,
Rev. Eric Kayayan