Our basic vision
and motto for our Church ministry work here in Pakistan is;
To
establish and bring forth such believers who may really true and
exemplary Christians in living, in faith, in sex and in deeds even in
every fields of life for they may display their Lord’s splendor on the
earth.
(Matthew 5:16)
We are very eager to establish a true and an exemplary Christian society that that must be a model Society and Church in the world according to the word of God. And because of like that kind of Church the Lord Jesus Christ establishing a Church, He is making her holy, cleansing her by the washing of His precious blood and with water through the word, and to present her to Himself as a radiant Church, without stained or wrinkle or any other blemish, but holy and blameless. (Ephesians 5:26--27)
1. Praise, Prayer and
Worship the Lord Almighty God:
Worshiping
and obeying God in prayers and thanksgiving in Spirit and in truth:
Our Savior the Lord Jesus Christ said, "But the hour cometh, and now is ,
when the true worshipers shall the worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh
such to worship him. God is a Spirit; and they that worship him must
worship him in spirit and in truth.
(John 4:23-24)
Most of our workers have been working voluntarily. They are doing their
own jobs for their living and in their spare time they visit in the
houses, towns, villages and proclaim the Gospel everywhere they can.
Everyday they continued to meet together in the church to pray, praise
and worship the Lord God Almighty with glad and sincere hearts. We
prepare and establish such true worshipers (believer’s congregations)
those must worship the God in spirit and in truth. For this purpose we
are laboring and struggling to develop a Church without walls built on
the sufficiency of the Scriptures and formed by disciples of intimate
communion with God and among themselves that walk in integrity of heart
before God and with public testimony that impacts their sphere of
influence, until the Glory of God covers this our whole earth.
2.
Teaching and Preaching the Word of God:
To set up and maintain institutions, departments, or cultural programmes for teaching and preaching (whether by word of mouth or by publishing or by other means), and to promote educational, training programmes:We are desirous to preach the Good News of
the Kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ and properly maintain the
congregations of brethren church everywhere in the world. In the beginning,
we see the believers that how they every day continued to meet together in
the temple courts. They devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and to
the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.
(Acts 2:42)
St. Paul the apostle, advised his promising pupil Timothy" "Thou therefore,
my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. And the things that
thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to
faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also. (Timothy 2:1-2)But now a days we see
that many unschooled and unstable nominal Christiana are proclaimed to be
teacher of the word of God.Here we see there are working plenty of Church Ministries, missionaries and groups everywhere in the world, either they are preaching the Gospel according to the Word of God sincerely or working against the Word of God purposely. Many churches and ministries are sometimes proclaiming they have won tens of thousands, or even millions of people to Christ. However, when the people they claim to have won are examined by their fruits, there is no evidence that the person truly repented. There is no evidence that Jesus is their Lord and Saviour.
There is no evidence they are obeying God's Word or are following the Jesus
of the Holy Bible. Both their conversation and actions are centered on this
world, not on Jesus and the world to come. The message of true repentance,
true trust in Jesus Christ, forsaking everything, persecutions, God's
wrath, hell and the lake of fire, sin, the Revelation and Bible prophecy,
and good sound Bible doctrine is seldom heard in today's churches. Most of
the preachers are unknown to the Word of God. They want to be teachers of
the Law, but they do not know what they are talking about or what they so
confidently affirm.
In the old Testament the Lord
Almighty God commanded His people, "Now these are the commandments, the
statutes, and the judgments, which the Lord your God commanded to
teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it: that thou mightest fear the Lord thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and thy days may be prolonged. And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thy heart: and thou shalt teach them diligently unto thy children, and shall talk of them when thou sittest in thine house, and thou walkest by the way, and when thou liest down, and when thou risest
up."
(Deuteronomy 6:1,2; 6,7)
3.
Spiritual Gifts:
To encourage and promote the development and exercise of spiritual gift in the church:
In the Holy Bible it is written thus, “And He gave some, apostles; and
some, prophets; and some, evangelists; and some, pastors and teacher; for
the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the
edifying of the body of Christ: till we all come in the unity of the faith,
and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the
measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ”.
(Ephesians 4:11-13)
And God hath set some in the Church, first apostles, secondarily prophets,
thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps,
governments, diversities of tongues for the edifying of the Church”. (1-Corinthians 12:28) Now there are diversities of gifts, but the same Spirit. And there are differences of administrations, but the same Lord. And there are diversities of operations, but it is the same God which worketh all in all. But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal. For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit; to another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit; to another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues; but all these worketh
that one and the selfsame Spirit, dividing to every man severally as he
will”.
(1-Corinthians 12:4-11)
4.
Fraternal Relations:
To maintain fraternal
relations with other churches, institutions and Persons of similar faith
and practice:
In the Holy Bible is written thus, “Follow peace with all men, and holiness, without which no man shalt
see the Lord”.
(Hebrews 12:14)
It is again said in the word
of God, “Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of
peace. There is one body, and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one
hope of your calling; one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and
Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all”.
(Ephesians 4:3-6).
True Christians must be devoted to one another in brotherly love and keep
on loving each other as brothers.5.
Fellowship with other Believers:
To train, prepare,
recognize and support evangelists, pastors and teachers, and those engaged
in other Christian ministries:
The Lord Jesus taught His disciples and said, “Verily,verily, I say unto you, He that receiveth whomsoever I send receiveth me; and that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me”.
(John 13:20) For the administration of this service not only supplieth
the want of the saints, but is abundant also by many thanksgivings unto
God; while by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for
your professed subjection unto the Gospel of Christ, and for your liberal
distribution unto them, and unto all men, and by their prayer for you,
which long after you for the exceeding grace of God in you. Thanks be
unto God for His unspeakable gift”.
(11-Corinthians 9:12-15)
6.
Obeying the Lord's Great Commission:
THE
GREAT COMMISSION OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, “Go, therefore, and make
disciples of all the nations baptizing them in the name of the Father, and
of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit”.(Matthew
28:19 ).
The Lord Jesus Christ said, “Ye have not chosen me,
but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth
fruit, and that your fruit should remain: that whatsoever ye shall ask of
the Father in my name, he may give it you. These things I command you, that
ye love one another”. (John 15:16-17)
7.
Social Work and Devotion to Human Interests:
"For we are taking pains to do what is right, not only in the eyes of the Lord but also in the eyes of the men".
(2-Cor. 8:21)
"How God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit and power, and how He went around doing good and healing all who were under the power of the devil, because God with Him”. (Acts 10:38)
It is also advised by St. Paul an apostle, to the Corinthians Church, “Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the Churches of Galatia , even so do ye. Upon the first day of the week let everyone of you lay by him in store, as God has prospered him, that there be no gathering when I come. And when I come, whomsoever ye shall approve by your letters, them will I to bring your liberality unto Jerusalem. And if it be meet that I go also, they shall go with me."
(1-Corinthians 16:1-3)
For the above mentioned purpose and vision
we are working under the rule of Government of Pakistan We have been duly
registered under the Societies Registration Act, XXI of 1860 with the
name
Berachah Social & Economic Development
Organization
"BSEDO"
on dated 5th February, 2010. Multan, Punjab,
Pakistan. Our main objects are as follow:-1.
Working for the economic and social development of the underprivileged
and neglected community through micro crediting, community uplifting and
capacity building community leaders.
2.
Empowering communities through access
to enterprises education and micro finance services.
3.
Working on non-formal education,
formal education and vocational education in the poor and neglected
communities.4.
To aware people about the disable
persons of their human and civic rights and provide them free education.
5.
Accepting
grants from any Government, agencies, authorities, public bodies,
corporations, companies or persons, moveable and immoveable properties,
donations, gifts, subscriptions, bequests and other assistance, with a view
to promoting the objectives of the Berachah Social & Economic Development
Organization vision and receiving any gift or property, to take the same
either unconditionally, or subject to any special conditions which may
prescribed by the donor in writing.
6.
Helping
impartially to those who are afflicted with any disasters like as
fires, earthquakes or floods or any other calamity.
Rev. Ghulam
Masih Tebassum
berachah125@yahoo.com
For further information please
email us:
info@berachahchurch.com
