One of the frustrating things I see when out sharing the gospel is the amount of people who consider themselves to be Christians, but deny the authority of the bible.  They are everywhere in this town(Colorado Springs) that some people call the Vatican of Christianity.  Even the huge church down the street that we have visited once or twice has Rob Bell’s videos in the bookstore.  This emergent nonsense is everywhere in the Christian community here in town and those who listen to this stuff are totally at odds with the gospel.  When talking to them, they discard the bible entirely and say that all road lead to heaven, God is not a God of judgment, God is love, Christians have a bad history of violence, no one can understand the bible, if Jesus died on the cross then God is a child abuser…….and on and on and on.

Thus the words of H. Richard Hiebuhr ring so true….

A God without wrath brought men without sin into a kingdom without judgment through the ministrations of Christ without a cross.

A critique of Brian McLaren’s new book (McLaren is one of the Emergent spokesman) ends with this summary…

In McLarenism there is no original sin, no wrath, no hell, no creation-fallredemption,
no definite future, no second coming that I can see, no clear statement on the deity of
Christ, no mention of vicarious substitution or God’s holiness or divine sovereignty, no ethical
demands except as they relate to being kind to others, no God-offendedness, no doctrine of
justification, no unchanging apostolic deposit of truth, no absolute submission to the word of God, nary a mention of faith and worship, no doctrine of regeneration, no evangelistic impulse to save the lost, and nothing about God’s passion for his glory.

I see this all the time.  And those who live out this social gospel agenda use it to promote the liberal mindset in everything including politics.  Now I do see a lot of bible believers using that position to defend their conservative agenda too.   Because of this, I stay far away from political stuff any more.  We are but a “vapor, that exists for a little while and vanishes”, James 4:14.  My goal is to proclaim the gospel and to glorify God. Eternity is going to last for a long time.  Once someone is saved, God will work out the details, so I need to just be faithful in focusing on Him and His glory.

     We had a house guest from Kenya a couple of years ago that stayed with us over the summer.  His name is Paul Omondi, and Compassion brought him over here to the US to speak to groups and events concerning what Compassion does (and did personally in his case).  He is back in Kenya now working for a Christian organization and is doing well.  He is another sucess story and we can certainly thank God for Compassion and the folks who are faithful to sponsor a child. 

     But that is not the reason for this post.  I have mentioned Paul before, but never really knew his story.  His story is being highlighted in the Compassion website, and I stumbled upon it today.  The thing that struck me was the fact of a friend of his who was murdered over the theft of a small item, and how Paul was so grieved over it and how he remembered not sharing his faith to him.  From then on, he got trained in evangelism and is now a “door to door” evangelist. 

     So what is our response?  We thank God for Compassion and what He is doing through that great organization.  If anyone of you is not sponsoring a child, please click on the link we have on this website and get started today.  We are advocates for Compassion because we have seen what Compassion is about from the inside and out, and have visited many Compassion projects.  And we can attest to the fact that Compassion does what it says, and more.  And also that the gospel is being communicated to EVERY child, and eventually to the family and communities.  And also, that we can remember that we all die sooner or later, and we need to share the gospel to “every creature”, as we are commanded to by our Lord.  No one is guaranteed another day….today is the day of salvation.

     This is the body of Paul’s post.  From “Chombo” to evangelist…God is good.

As a kid, I often played at the dumping site and scavenged for edibles that the various companies and airlines disposed of at the site. My friends and I named the dumping site “Chombo.” Chombo is a Swahili word meaning machine.We named the dump “Chombo” because we found biscuits disposed of by factories that the machine did not cut into the correct shape. Most boys ended up not going to school, but found a home in “Chombo.”

Not many kids made it to high school in my neighborhood, basically because of two reasons; one, to make it to high school, there is a national exam that one has to take. Passing this exam is not easy as such, and if one never makes it in the exam, then there is no place for him or her in high school.

Another reason is that, even if some make it in the exam, they fail to join high school because they cannot afford the school fees. I thank God for Compassion because it ensured that my school fees were paid for in high school. My sponsor family also encouraged and believed in me, hence I did so well in my exams and joined a government high school. Some of the kids I grew up with did not get the opportunity to join high school. Most boys went into drug addiction and to nurse their drug addiction, they turned to crime.  Ladies turned to prostitution, and most of them had babies as early as 14  years old.

I saw more than 15 boys I grew up with either being shot down by the police or being stoned to death by mob justice. The community was just fed up with crime and took the law into its own hands.  An event that turned my life is when I saw one of the young men I grew up with and even shared classes with being chased down the streets. Later, the crowd caught up with him, stoned him to death, and set his body ablaze.  I later learned that this young man had stolen an electronic gadget worth maybe less than $100. It saddened me seeing my friend die in the hands of an angry mob.

For a long time I blamed myself for not sharing my faith with him. I resolved to join an evangelism and discipleship class in church popularly known as Campus Crusade for Christ. Here I had opportunity to learn how to share my faith and I saw my friends come to Christ, though some rejected.

By the time I had completed high school, I did not know what the next step would be for me, because in Kenya at the age of 18 years I was due for graduation from the Compassion program and that was it.  For sure, high school education alone could not help me achieve my dreams. I became sad. I really had the desire to proceed with my education, but I knew without the help of Compassion I was not going to make it.  One thing surprised me, though; I did well again in my Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education exams. I became a role model in my community, and I often had parents send their kids to me to talk to them.

I had an interest in teaching kids in church; I found it fun singing with 8- and 9-year-olds and teaching them Bible stories. I also continued sharing my faith in the neighborhood through door-to-door evangelism.