The Church at War

By Kilton Moyo

The Church at War is an interesting book that seeks to inspire believers into practical works that can transform communities. In this book, the author is calling the Body of Christ back to its fighting faith and calling in order to manifest the love and the kingdom of God in the communities that are afflicted by so many issues. The church seems to have gone to sleep and to be sidetracked by other doctrines that could be a deception and a way of making the whole church lukewarm and not effective. The book reminds the church that the gospel of Jesus Christ is confrontational in its nature and focuses and requires a church that has a great appetite to engage, therefore. Kilton calls on the church to put on a warrior attitude and resist the schemes of the devil imposed on the communities in the nations.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Trafford Publishing
• Release date: Mar 4, 2014
• ISBN: 9781490728995

Kilton Moyo

Kilton Moyo is a teacher by profession. He is a graduate theologian and a guidance and counseling consultant. He is a regular writer to local print media on issues that affect people on a daily basis and offers Christian counseling to various sectors of the community. He is an ordained pastor and is currently working with an international NGO based in Zimbabwe and offers psychosocial support and counseling to staff and communities. He is the founder of Citizen Africa Foundation, a trust that seeks to help the family in Africa with marriage and parenting, guidance and counseling, and various other issues that afflict the current family. He is an advocate for the creation of wealth at the family level and has a great passion to see the church influence issues in the communities. Kilton is currently studying for a master’s degree in Christian counseling. He is married and has four children.

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CONTENTS

Introduction

Chapter 1 Having A Warrior Attitude

Chapter 2 Who Went About Doing Good

Chapter 3 Seeking That Which Was Lost

Chapter 4 Serving And Not Being Served

Chapter 5 Love Your Neighbor As You Love Yourself

Chapter 6 Walk Worthy Of The Calling

Africa today needs a radical Church that engages and fights. A church that advocates, speaks out, rebukes, and proclaims the year of the Lord. Africa needs a church that can get into the communities, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, heal the sick, build homes for the homeless, build schools and hospitals, do irrigation schemes, revive the families, open factories and provide employment and be practical in all it does.

Introduction

Over the past 10 years, I have had the privilege to travel extensively around my country Zimbabwe and around some African countries and have observed a pattern of destruction in all communities. I have seen destroyed hospitals, clinics, schools, families, roads and many other service providers you can think of. I have seen and experienced the worst service by those who are supposedly employed to offer such service and those who are elected to provide such. I have seen and experienced deplorable attitudes by those who have the power and authority to serve others. I have been more ashamed of being part of this society than anything else. I have seen deplorable levels of poverty in both rural and urban communities. Our streets are full of homeless children and elderly people. Everywhere in my continent these people are regarded as rubbish and very few people care about them. Many of those who do care are driven more by making profits than empowering them. It appears like more evil is growing than good. I have seen so much pain and brokenness in the lives of people. I have seen people tortured by crisis, sickness, and many other ‘giants’ to the point of hopelessness. Where ever I go I hear the cries and screams of infants, youths and women crying for help. They are caught up in a catch 22 situation. Those who are supposed to help them deny them help and abuse them. Has anyone ever stopped to think what the children and women of the Democratic Republic of Congo feel and think when they are raped daily by Rebel soldiers, Government soldiers and even by the so called Peace Keepers? I can hear their silent cries and their deep longing for freedom. My heart sinks. Have you ever thought of it whenever you lock the doors of your mansion to sleep every night that over 100 million children are sleeping on the streets condemned to a life of begging and have no choice? There is a deep desire in me to make life less difficult for others too.

Violence is on the increase at home, on the streets, in offices, in market places, in the synagogues, in politics and everywhere. Imagine, they are raped in the bush, at school, on the streets, at home, in the offices and even in synagogues. Where shall they go and what shall I do? I have looked and have cried to my God, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and have desired in my heart to see a better life for my people. I have asked myself many questions which I could not answer. I have prayed many prayers and now feel fed up. What pains my heart more is the fact that in the midst of this growing evil in my communities, the church was also growing in numbers and more churches were being set up each day. This kind of equation was not balancing well for me. The church in Africa is swelling in terms of numbers and yet on the other hand, corruption and evil are still in charge. How can this be so? I was sick in my spirit looking for some divine intervention in the messy in African communities. What shall we do? How can I be of help in all this? My desire for a solution grew every day and more so whenever I stepped into some areas. One time I was having a meeting with leaders in a particular community in rural Zimbabwe, and I just saw a trapped people who were not going anywhere trying to lead others. I saw as if there was a huge Goliath intimidating them and my passion for a solution was so much that I called off the meeting and requested to meet them the following day. I went to God to cry for my people. The other day, I stood in a slum in Nairobi, Kenya, doing some little interviews, God arrested me and my whole body was hot with anger and conviction at the same time. I could not help but cry and bleed in my heart and found myself repenting to God for not doing much to help His people trapped in slums and other places in Africa. My heart began to search again on what I should possibly do.

Why should it be Africa with all these potholes on the roads? Why should it be Africa with this high prevalence rate of all kinds of diseases? Why should it be Africa with all this violence, poverty, negligence, and destroyed infrastructure? Why should it be Africa with all this abuse of children, women and men? Why? Why should it be Africa with all this evil perpetuated against her on people? What could be done here?

On this other day, I decided therefore to change my approach from mourning to seeking God’s own agenda in my