CHRIST REVIVAL MISSION INTERDENOMINATIONAL
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| About the Founder DR. LENKE G. CHINKE The Late Dr. Lenke G. Gobel Chinke, was a civil servant all his life, until he retired voluntarily and became a full time minister. He had served as an ordained Elder and Pastor of the Worldwide Church of God for 13 years before his service as the pioneer of the Christ Revival Mission Interdenominational, Bukuru Jos Plateau State. A faith based NGO which was established to not only preach and propagate the gospel of Jesus Christ but also to enbark on social ministry to the poor and needy, this was a life he had been accostomed with as a child and felt God was leading him to help people in need. He died on the 18 of Aplil 2013 leaving behind his wife, Mrs. Hannah Chinke a co-founder of the ministry, five children, many grand children and numerous brothers and sisters. Dr. L.G. Chinke had written many books and has left a budding ministry behind which is being built upon by the present leadership! Christ Revival Mission puts at it focus a ministry to the Mind, Body and Spirit and believes if we are to tackle human problems we must not neglect any of these three aspects of Humanity. |
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HOW GOD IS USUALLY APPRECIATED – THE EPIPHANY OF OUR HUMAN GODS
The heavens tell of his glory says Psalm 19:1. The firmament showeth his handiworks. Without really speaking, day and night they tell of the presence of God even though he seems invisible. As much as we want to deny the presence of God because we humans have been able to harness these natural resources to create technology that make our lives easier and more prosperous; the truth remains that all these boasts are still reliant on the natural created world we did not have any hand in making.
We beat our chests saying we can do and undo, we take from the poor and give the rich, we kill those that stand in our way, we make their lives unlivable if they do not banter to our ways. Just because we have these natural resources which over generations our ancestors have been able to harness. Yet if we only knew where these resources actually came from, we would be very willing to bow unequivocally to the source of creation itself. But if by any means he is absent then we become all in all in his place.
After the attack on Sunday at Gari Ya Waye, Angwan Rukuba, Jos, I watched a video that not only got me thinking but almost got me saying “I told you so”. Not that I wanted to boast but only that this was a script I had seen repeat itself over and over again. Over the past 25 years since I matured to become a man, a new level of responsibility was put on me that I had never known. I began to understand that certain things had shifted base, from things I could take for granted to things I had to either try to create or my life was at stake. I had to try to feed myself, accommodate myself and be part of a world with so many expectations of me. As if that was not enough, I physically witnessed another epiphany, I saw my father, who taught me all I know, who I still depended on for some support in life breath his last. Right there and then It was like that door to the safe of my life was locked and the keys thrown away. Though I had almost gained independence from him at that time, events had proven to try to reverse this progress, and then his sudden death.
The next three years of my life were spent trying to unlock this safe – of course I had to find the key; it was not in his grave, after all we were responsible for packaging his body and burying it – there was no need to go a grave digging. It was not in his drawers or personal safe however blindly I had followed my mother around trying to recover his assets. To my amazement and literal astoundment, they were locked deep within me. After five to six years in this discovery my dead father came back to life again confirming my fear that he had literally become a god in his own rights. From the grave (God’s side) he was doing things that up to today, I wonder if I am giving the right person the credit – things only a god could do. But as God himself would have it, the culmination was a final revelation of all his points of weakness. His aim; God alone would be glorified.
Yesterday as I watched people heckle, people who would have hitherto hailed their governor; a great man who had just a few months back celebrated his achievements by organizing a series of Christmas events that culminated in the celebration of the new year; I thought to myself; there goes the epiphany of our human gods. In the past three years of this man’s adventure into governance, I had appreciated and admired his never before seen ability to make decisions one could hardly fault. He had and wielded a knack at diplomacy I have not recently seen in Plateau state within the political sphere. With every move he made, he surprised and often impressed observers and yet all this time I harbored a fear. A fear I had developed since that day I lost my dad; a man of integrity, intelligence, grit, diplomacy and a professional often respected for his matter of factly and well informed views. He was a Christian who often gave all he had for the sake of the service of God. All this slowly faded into that epiphany just because without knowing it he found himself repeating a lie often told by a false god – called community.
We ourselves repeated that lie as much as our naïve eyes could convince us of it. But soon enough as a family we were forced to see things as they really were.
Today as I realize that this crises in not limited to Plateau state, nor Nigeria but to the whole world. I am forced to admit another truth; the reason creation stands on its own; so perfect as created by God, who in his mercy frequently allows us to arrogantly claim we are the reason it exists, in perceived prosperity. The reason it is so sublime and available to us for life and sustainability, itself, is that in the end, God himself actually created us in His own image. We are blessed with his creativity, and a little measure of his intelligence; we are blessed with his ability to visualize what we want and practicalize it in physical terms and yet what we lack is his patience, his integrity and his tenacity.
Through these 13 years since my dad died, I have been forced to see that indeed God looks to me, expectant, that only if I would take his word seriously, I would be able to make the world I want to live in. But even more so I have been forced to be aware that the influence of the community will either make or mar this potential.
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