What can we learn from GFA model?
Many of you must have heard that Gospel for Asia (GFA) raised US $93 million in 2013, of which it has been asked by a US court to return 37 million back to the donors. We are not here to go into the merits of the case or to condemn them but simply to learn lessons from it. We know that corruption is rampant in the church, it is not new. The seven model churches in the Book of Revelation were evaluated by Jesus, “I know thy works…” and found them wanting. Long before that, even the first man Adam had problem of disobedience. Even after the flood, Nimrod in Babylon acquired divine attributes and tried to defy God’s command to Noah, “Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth” by building a tower to stop people from scattering (Genesis 9:1; 11:4). Over 500 BC, while in Diaspora in Babylon, the first synagogues were established, which God had not mandated. Later the free worship was replaced with structured and formalized prayers to be recited. The leadership was taken over by Rabb