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Name: Jason
Interests: economics, social justice and puppies
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| WORD PRESSHey friends, I will be changing up where my blog is. I have moved the location of my blog to http://tommyatoes.wordpress.com. I hope to have a registered domain name soon and will be posting on it regularly with the option to have you sign up to receive updates for when I posted to my blog. I encourage you to please visit this blog and write comments on it. It will be an encouragement to me as I continue to pursue the ministry God has given me of mobilizing for the evangelization of the world. These blogs are a great encouragement to me. I have the opportunity to post my thoughts and have you all respond. It is like the best of both internal and external processing. Thank you for reading and be praying for me to have an opportunity to find some hosting for my new blog page and get a domain name that is easy to remember. My hope is that through the blog I will be an encouragement to you and give you all updates regarding my life, as well as providing a forum for presenting the needs for the unreached before you all. Thanks again for reading. In Christ,
Jason Weigand
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| My Plan To Take Over The WorldWell my story goes... I was saved when I was 17 years old. I was arrested for drug possession and my dad and I weren't getting along very well at that time. It was when I was arrested that I thought about how I really like my dad and would like to get to know him more and I prayed that God wouldn't have my dad yell at me when he picked me up from jail, and that he wouldn't die of a heart attack or anything. If God did those things I would go to church every sunday for the rest of my life. That was the promise. Well Dad didn't yell at me, and that wasn't because he died of heart attack. So I started going to church again and about a year later I started walking with Jesus. When this happened I decided that I wanted everyone to know about this loving Savior that I had and the ones I wanted to know this news more was the group that was least likely to hear it. At the time I thought this group was the punks and gothics that I used to hang out with. A couple years later I learned about unreached people groups and how without a Christian witness among them they will never have a chance to hear. My vision of my future changed forever.
It was like I approached a building that was on fire and instead of me picking up one pale of water and begin dosing out the fire, the only option I could think of to do that would be better was to go and arouse the sleeping firemen who are next door to put out the fire. Hence, I found Heart of God Ministries and begin working as a mobilizer, to encourage and challenge the Church to wake up and "save others, snatching them out of the fire" (Jude 23). As C.H. Spurgeon once said, "If sinners be damned, at least let them leap to Hell over our bodies. If they will perish, let them perish with our arms about their knees. Let no one go there unwarned and unprayed for." I have been mobilzing since 2001 and have enjoyed it since. My goal is eventually to become a missionary in Africa.
My plan? Well by 2011 I hope to have at least a BA in Global Studies (at most a MA), from Northwestern College. By 2016, my goal is to raise up 600 trained and sent out frontier pioneer church planters. Right now I am a little over 100. Along with this, my hope is that in the next ten years we will go from having 10,000 unreached people groups remaining to 8,000. "Jason are you saying that you think we can see 2,000 seperate people groups have self sustaining church planting movments?" You bet your bottom dollar I am saying that. In 1974, Ralph Winter gave a presentation at the Lusanne Committee for World Evangelisation. That this conference the terminology and strategy of reaching unreached peoples was birthed. At that time there was an estimated 12,000 unreached people by the US Center for World Mission. Today a little over 30 years later there are 10,000 unreached peoples. That is 2,000 peoples reached in 30 years!!! Because I believe God is the God of the impossible and because I believe that He answers prayer, my goal within the next 10 years is to "pray as if it all depends upon my prayers and work as if it all depends upon my work", quote taken from William Booth founder of the Salvation Army. | | |
| Unwarned and Unprayed for: Friends,
I read this article today and I wanted to share it with you. May this motivate us even more to "pray as if it all depended upon our prayer, and work as if it all depeneded upon our work." (quote by William Booth). Satan is killing people and we citizens of the Kingdom of God, empowered by the Holy Spirit are to take this Good News we have to our neighbors and the ends of the earth. As Charles Spurgeon once said, and I paraphrase, "May we allow no one to go to hell unwarned and unprayed for".
Indian man "sacrifices" himself at Hindu temple
Wed 23 Aug 2006 10:15 AM ET
http://today.reuters.com/News/CrisesArticle.aspx?storyId=DEL45168
LUCKNOW, India, Aug 23 (Reuters) - An Indian man "sacrificed" himself by slitting his throat in front of a Hindu deity at a temple in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday, police said.
Natha Ram Pal, 45, a father of four, shocked devotees at the village temple when he picked up a knife and slashed his throat in the courtyard.
He was rushed to a hospital where he died, senior police officer Dawa Sherpa told Reuters.
"The temple has a history of people sacrificing their tongues on new moon nights to fulfil their desires," Sherpa said. "But even that has not been heard of in recent times."
Pal's family described him as an "obsessively religious person", who spent most of his time at local temples in the village, about 50 km (30 miles) north of the state capital, Lucknow. | | |
| What does Hospitality mean? Hey friends,
Here is an interesting comment. The devil really tries to cover up truth to keep us from living it. Look at this definition of Hospitality and how it changed. For those of you who don't know the Webster Dictionary was published in the 1800's and for Bible study, understanding some of the words in the KJV is more properly understood if you read the definition in the Webster's 1828 dictionary. Here is what my friend send me in an email regarding this.
I spoke with Clyde Wilton (my greek teacher) today on the phone and he pointed this verse out to me.
Rom 12:13 Distributing to the necessity of saints; given to hospitality. (KJV)
Rom 12.13 Contributing to the needs of the saints, pursuing the love of strangers. (Wilton Translation)
Interesting…
Hospitality (Websters 1828) 1. Receiving and entertaining strangers, with kindness and without reward;
Hospitality (www.webster.com) a. given to generous and cordial reception of guests b : promising or suggesting generous and cordial welcome c : offering a pleasant or sustaining environment
So what happened to this definition? | | |
| MY HEART ACHESHey friends,
It is about that time again that I will bring to you another blog. I wanted to write you and let you know that I am still doing well. Jesus is still saving me, Praise the Lord!
Some fun news is that I am hosting a Taiwanesse guy at my house. He has been here for the last month and a half. To practice English we have been going through the Book of John, and He really likes the part that say they "believed" Jesus as He did miracles or spoke things. Please pray for His salvation.
Another guy I have been talking with is named David and he isn't following Jesus at all. He has lots of questions about the Bible and seems earnest, but at the same time I think "the god of this age" has blinded his eyes (2 Cor 4:4) from seeing the glory that is found in Christ. He has a hard time letting people pray for him, and anytime he has listened to a sermon he says he hears voices that keep him from hearing the sermon. Oppression is here if you know what I mean. Please pray with me that his eyes would be open to the glory fo the gospel and that he would be set free from the oppression that is keeping him back.
The sad note that my heart aches for is after reading this story "Former Christian Minister now Buddhist monk dies". The sad thing about this story is he died, without hope and without God. He was lost, and is now suffering in absolute darkness, burning in hell. My heart aches for this man. I can't help but also think of others like him. Please read the article and know this, there are others within the church that have the same doubts that this man had, and given the right circumstances will come to the same fateful conclusions. "Take care, brethren, that there not be in any one of you an evil, unbelieving heart that falls away from the living God. But encourage one another day after day, as long as it is still called "Today," so that none of you will be hardened by the deceitfulness of sin." Heb 3:12-13 | | |
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