There is an earnest search among the believers across the world for a real Church where a person can commune with God and relate to his fellow brethren. After trials and experiments the Indian Church is forming “Troop Church”.

The Army of Jesus was experimenting with the “Troop Church” for the past 17 years. Started in the year 1998, it has so far registered 19,676 troops . The experiment with Troop Church has been successful.

1. It has 19,676 independent first line Troop Churches. Second , third line numbers of Troop Churches are not known.
2. It has raised many leaders, pastors, prophets, counselors and other ministers and gospel workers.
3. It has no visible leader or hierarchical structure
4. It has no office, no full timer, no paid worker etc.
5. No organizational (hierarchical) set up.
6. No money collection or transaction.
7. No election, board, Committee etc.
8. Every Troop Church trains up believers in their gifts like worshipping, preaching, prophecy etc.
9. Since the mother troop disperses and starts new troops after 2 months, there is no stagnancy.
10. No pollution or corruption with money or power. 
11. 11.The two wings of Troop Church are Decentralisation and Multiplication .

1…As for Saul, he made havock of the church, entering into every house, and haling men and women committed them to prison.

Acts:8:3

 The above verse brings us a very clear message that there was fellowship in the houses…. Saul ( Later Paul ) persecuted the early age churches that is troop churches gathered  in houses 

2….The churches of Asia salute you. Aquila and Priscilla salute you much in the Lord, with the church that is in their house.

1 Corinthians:16:19

Paul Wishes  troop Churches in Corinth

3…..Likewise greet the church that is in their house. Salute my well-beloved Epaenetus, who is the firstfruits of Achaia unto Christ.

Romans:16:5

Paul Wishes the Troop churches in Rome 

3….And to our beloved Apphia, and Archippus our fellowsoldier, and to the church in thy house: Philemon:1:2

Above verse says that Paul wishes troops gathered in Apphia & Archippus houses

4……Salute the brethren which are in Laodicea, and Nymphas, and the church which is in his house.

Colossians:4:15

Paul Wishes the Troop churches in Colocians 

Above verses clarify us that there was only troop churches were exist in early apostle days which was formed by 100% leading of the Holy Spirit….how does these house church culture faded…….there was no other denominations mentioned in the Bible 

It is self explanatory…. how these Pagan churches got into the system of Christianity 

One final word to hit the nail straight 

Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet, 

Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool: what house will ye build me? saith the Lord: or what is the place of my rest?

Acts 7:47 & 48

Troop Churches ( House Churches ) has history of more than 2000 yrs than any other man made denomination pagan churches

Lessons from the book of Numbers 11 : 16 – 17

Some churches use Numbers 11:16-17 to ordain 70 elders/ministers as part of their ministry, as they say this is how God wants his ministry to run.

So YHWH said to Moses: “Gather to Me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people and officers over them; bring them to the tabernacle of meeting, that they may stand there with you.  Then I will come down and talk with you there. I will take of the Spirit that is upon you and will put the same upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, that you may not bear it yourself alone” (Numbers 11:16-17).

Most churches would go this way about Numbers 11:16-17. We need to choose 70 men (people in our ministry who do what we say) and appoint them as elders so that they can also do our ministry work. When we read Numbers 11:16-17, we see God first talking to Moses and telling him to gather 70 elders of Israel. The first thing we need to ask is, what is the meaning of the word “elder”? The word “elder” comes from the Hebrew word “zaqen” (pronounced as “zaw-kane”) concordance number 2204 and 2205. This means a person who is recognized by the people for his gifts of leadership, wisdom (in righteous living based on the Torah) and justice. Then we see Moses choosing, based on what God told him, 70 men and bringing them to the tabernacle so that the spirit of YHWH could be upon them. So the flowchart of events over here is:

God talking to Moses with an instruction >> 70 Elders chosen >> Spirit of YHWH rests on them.

In modern-day churches, we don’t see God talking to the elder of the church or God sanctifying these elders. We see men appointing men based on an event that happened during the time of Moses. Moreover, we need to understand why God chose 70 elders to help Moses. In the previous verses of Numbers 11:10-15, we read Moses is pleading to God to kill him because the people were weeping before Moses. Moses was unable to bear the grief of weeping, as the burden was too heavy for him. God then, in His great mercy, told Moses, “I will sanctify elders to help you so that you don’t have to bear all of these burdens yourself”. So we see that the elders and the duty of Moses were to serve the people, and not serve themselves.

– To be Continued

Thousands of Chinese Students Accepting Christ in America

Hundreds of thousands of Chinese students come as atheists to study in colleges and universities in the United States. Thousands of them accept Jesus into their lives as they get exposed to Christian beliefs, according to reports.

More than 304,000 Chinese studied in American colleges and universities in 2015 alone, according to Institute of International Education. And these institutions often become the first places where they get to know about different religious tenets.

It is estimated that thousands of Chinese students have embraced Christianity, the Foreign Policy magazine says, and quotes Gregory Jao, national director of campus engagement for InterVarsity Christian Fellowship/USA, as saying that his organization serves between 1,600 and 1,800 overseas Chinese out of a total of about 5,000 international students it ministers to.

Valerie Althouse, who served as a chaplain at NYU, is also quoted as saying that Chinese have been the majority of those involved in the school’s spiritual programs. “Part of it is language-based — it seems most Chinese greatly desire to improve English — and also curiosity about Americans, American life, and even our religious beliefs and democratic system.” China’s communist rulers have restricted religious freedom ever since they came to power in 1949, when they expelled Christian missionaries while allowing churches to function under the government’s control. Chinese Christians then faced severe persecution during the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s and the 1970s under Mao, who saw religion as “poison.”

Churches are now allowed to function, but only after they register with the government which results in lack of autonomy. While hundreds of thousands of unofficial house churches, largely indigenous, exist all across the country, restrictions remain. Evangelism is allowed, but only in state-approved religious venues and private settings.

But when young Chinese students come to America, they are free to exercise their religious freedom even as they struggle with issues that most immigrants face. “When people go to a new place, their identity as immigrants makes them look for meaning: ‘Why me? Why is this happening to me?’ When people start to ask questions like these, Christianity provides answers that many find acceptable,” Yang Fenggang, a sociology professor at Purdue University and the author of Chinese Christian in America: Conversion, Assimilation, and Adhesive Identities, tells Foreign Policy. “They need to learn how to interact with classmates of other races, how to interact with professors. A person won’t be able to lead a normal life if they look to Marxism or Maoism to guide their daily life here.”

Chinese students became more receptive of the Gospel especially after the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown, as they got disillusioned with communism, according to Yang, who says, “For my generation, it was a real struggle between Marxism; communism versus Christianity.” In 2014, Yang predicted that even within China, the Protestant population is likely to swell to 160 million by 2025. “By my calculations China is destined to become the largest Christian country in the world very soon,” Yang told The Telegraph at the time. “It is going to be less than a generation. Not many people are prepared for this dramatic change.” Yang predicts that China, which had over 58 million Protestants in 2010 according to the Pew Research Centre’s Forum on Religion and Public Life, will have around 160 million by 2025. This would mean China will likely be ahead even of the United States, which had about 159 million Protestants in 2010. Yang went on to say that China’s total Christian population, including Catholics, would be over 247 million by 2030 and thus become the largest Christian congregation in the world. “Mao thought he could eliminate religion. He thought he had accomplished this. It’s ironic – they didn’t. They actually failed completely,” he said.

Arrest of China’s Largest Megachurch Pastor ‘Will Shake the Spirit’ of Christian Leaders, Says China Aid Founder

China Aid, a Christian human rights organization based in the U.S., believes that Pastor Gu Yuese of Hangzhou’s Chongyi Church, the largest government sanctioned church in China, has no chance to escape sentencing by the Communist Party for standing up against the crackdown on churches. “I think the likely scenario to happen is that he will be indicted, and depending on his confession, and how cooperative he is, the length of sentence can be negotiated,” Bob Fu, founder and president of China Aid, told The Christian Post in a phone interview on Thursday.

“All factors combined, I do not see any way that the Communist Party will let Pator Gu leave the prison without a criminal sentence,” Fu added.

Gu was taken into custody and placed under “residential surveillance at a designated location” on Jan. 28, but was only formally charged on Feb. 6 on charges of embezzling funds, Fu told CP. While Chinese authorities, led by the Communist Party, have claimed that Gu is being investigated for corruption, China Aid and other persecution watchdog groups have pointed out that Gu is being punished more so because of his opposition to the crackdown on churches in China, which includes the forced cross removal from hundreds of churches in several provinces.

Although authorities have arrested several Christian pastors of underground churches and Christian activists for protesting against the forced cross removals, Gu is the highest ranking government-sanctioned church official to be arrested since the cultural revolution in the 1960s. Fu said that the pastor’s arrest is “politically charged,” and pointed out the irony that Gu had previously been considered almost as a “poster boy” by the government for religious freedom. The China Aid president noted that Gu has built a large international following, especially in Hong Kong and other oversees church communities, with petitions supporting him gathering over 1,500 signatures by influential church leaders.

Read more at http://www.christianpost.com/news/china-arrest-megachurch-pastor-gu-yuese-government-sanctioned-church-persecution-157537/

When  I started worshipping in the Centre Jesus came  near me. I felt his presence and saw  light shining .He spoke to me like this” I have come as a light to shine in the world.You have been chosen to be the light to everyone and shine in the world and you will be a witness to me.”      

Kamala Chatterjee

At the time of my worshipping in the Centre  God spoke to me like this “ All the deception of the enemy will go away.The servants of God have all turned away from me and now started  leading  wordly life. Immediately go and preach my  words  to  the people.”

Tulika Barla – Jharkhand

As soon as I entered the worship centre I felt the presence of God. When  I started singing ,  my head, two hands and legs started shaking and felt a power entering in to me. Again when I started praising I was filled fully with power.

Susheel – Jharkhand

God showed me how he is protecting me and the family in all the critical situations. God clearly told me to wait patiently for His coming (Rapture).

Julyani – Jharkhand

Lent & Easter

Today February 10^th, most of the Christians around the world celebrate as “Ash Wednesday”. What is it?  Christians go to the Church and get  a sign of the cross on their forehead with ashes. I remember my childhood days where the sisters  (nuns) who taught us, would check the foreheads of all the students on Ash Wednesday  if all of them have attended Church . Some even used to take ashes from the oven  and make a sign of the cross  for themselves so that they can escape from getting beaten up.

Lent of 40 days begins with Ash Wednesday. Christians believe that it is a time for purification for all the sins committed thus  far in their lives. As anybody  can understand  from history lent originatess from Semiramis, the wife of Nimrod (Gen. 10: 10-13) who asked the women of their land to observe a 40 days lament over her son Tammuz who was dead.  

Then he brought me to the entrance of the north gate of the house of the LORD, and behold, there sat women weeping for Tammuz. Eze 8:14 

so that he might be raised from the dead, since she had made them believe that She herself is the woman mentioned in Gen. 3:15 and her son Tammuz was the redeemer of mankind. From Nimrod and his wife  Semiramis originated the first pagan religion of Sun God & Moon God worship.

During Caesar Constantine’s period, many of the pagan practices entered into the Roman Catholic Church and later into all the other Churches. Lent and  Easter are among them. So the question arises, “Can I observe Lent and celebrate Easter?”

And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him. Col 3:17 

20 arrested for assaulting villager over conversion charge

Jalaun: Police in northern India have arrested 20 people from a hard-line Hindu group for assaulting and parading a young man on a donkey accusing him of trying to convert three people to Christianity. Police said Awadesh Savita, 35, was attacked Jan. 29 in Rendhar village of Uttar Pradesh state. Some 20 men barged into his house, assaulted him and his wife and took Savita to the nearby Orai town. There they hired a barber to shave his head, half of his moustache and one eyebrow. They also put a garland of shoes on him and paraded around town before taking him to the police station, accusing him of trying to convert others. Some 200 people took part in this incident.

“The complaint is not valid as preliminary investigation has proved that Awadesh Savita was not involved in conversion activities,” Manoj Kumar, police official at the Orai police station told ucanews.com. Police arrested 20 people belonging to the Bajrang Dal, a militant Hindu organization. “More arrests will follow in the coming days,” he added. Savita’s wife Rekha told ucanews.com that some villagers were upset about their family because of their interest in Christ after they sought treatment for their 7-year-old son at a Christian hospital in Varanasi.

Rekha maintains that she and her family did not convert to Christianity. “Why would we engage in conversion? What will we benefit from that?” she asked. The Uttar Pradesh state government has no law banning religious conversions but Christian leaders say hard-line groups are against conversions in the state, where Hindus from 80 percent of its 200 million people. Christians are negligible minority in the state. Christian leaders also say attacks against religious minorities as well as those in favor of such groups have increased across India ever since the pro-Hindu Bharatiya Janata Party came to power in New Delhi almost two years ago.

Village fines people for saying ‘Christian’ prayers

Julwania:  A village council in central India has fined four people for practicing Christianity and is closely watching them to prevent them continuing to do so. The Dahar village council in Dhar district of Madhya Pradesh, fined the four 5,000 rupees (US$75) each, Shankar Singh, one of those fined told ucanews.com Feb 4. The punishment on Jan. 19 came five days after police arrested and later released 12 people who had gathered at Singh’s house.

The arrests followed accusations by a Hindu group that the people at the gathering were attempting to convert to Christianity. Members of the Hindu group surrounded the house and called police, Singh said. “We are under tremendous pressure to give up our faith in Christ,” the 40-year-old told ucanews.com, adding that he had been prevented from leaving the village for the past two weeks. He and the other three denied allegations they had converted to Christianity or indulged in any conversion activity. “I am a member of the Bhilala tribe and continue to be in it,” Singh said. “I’m simply happy to attend Christian meetings and prayers, which have helped me overcome my financial worries, alcoholism, unhappiness and other negativities in my life.” The state, run by pro-Hindu Bharatiya Janata Party, has an anti-conversion law that criminalizes conversion if done without permission from government authorities. Fines and jail terms are stipulated for those involved in “fraudulent” and “forced” conversion and for “alluring” people to change their religion. Fined for breaching harmony Singh recounted that for more than two weeks he has been closely watched by a self-appointed “vigilance team” and that he and the other people fined were “prevented from leaving the village.”

The village of some 2,000 people has only four people attending Christian prayers, the rest follow tribal traditions, Singh said. Jurla Bhai, 36, who also was fined, said the council threatened “to expell us from the village after accusing us of converting to Christianity and going against local traditions.”

Bhai also denied converting. Village headman Mukud Randa confirmed the imposition of the fines. They were fined for “breaching peace and harmony” in the village and “picking arguments with their own family members,” he said. In breaching harmony, “they were refusing to offer prayers and sacrifices to their goddesses and eat food offered in our worship,” Randa said. “This led to family discord and the fine was to discipline them and to keep the community together,” he said. Those wanting to follow Christianity are facing a “hostile situation,” according to Jagdish Mehara, a local minister, who was among the 12 arrested, told ucanews.com. Christians have been opposing the state’s anti-conversion laws on the grounds that they violate religious freedom as enshrined in the Indian Constitution.

But test the spirits to see whether they are from God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

This verse clearly teaches about discerning and not judging.(Judging can be condemnation, Discerning is the analysis of good and evil).

How can we test the spirits?

* Always check if they speak and teach according to the Bible.

* Check their  Kingdom fruits.

If we don’t analyze them, we will be deceived.

Satan is good in Word Knowledge, but he always twists the Truth to induce disobedience.

He blocks people from producing the fruit of Holy Spirit

Where is Holy Spirits, there is freedom

(2Cor 3-17), also means if there is evil spirit there is no deliverance.          

Why many believers in the church are not delivered?

Why no big miracles take place as in the Apostolic days.?

Why there is no discipleship?

But the Word of God preached  here (BFF) is deep, I am interesting and appreciated.

Simple questions that can expose the Truth.

Just go to your church and tell your pastor, I am going to baptize a new soul.

📌 Pastor :- No, bring them here, make them confess repent(1week), Baptism class (3wks), based on my appointment I will  baptize.

 📌 Word:- Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit (Matt 28-19)

Who is correct Word / pastor??😱

You are not judging but analysing what’s correct and what is not based on the Word.

But if you lack Word Knowledge you can be deceived. Altered truth cannot deliver you.

If it is not based on the Word, it cannot be from the Holy Spirit, if it’s not from the Holy Spirit, then there is no deliverance.

(Analyse every spirit based on the Word to prevent any deception).👍🙏