Rev. Koke is the Assistant
to the Senior Pastor at the Full Gospel Mission Down Hill Mbonge Road, Kumba.
The congregation in which he ministers falls in Southwest 1 of the Full Gospel
Mission in Cameroon and also happens to fall in District 1 of the Southwest
Area. He was interviewed by Francis Ekongang.
Excerpts
Rev. You have certainly
put in place a couple of packages to make sure that the spiritual life of such
a vast congregation remains stable.
Years back I was a sinner but the Lord through the preaching
of the Gospel by somebody touched me as I heard it and I gave my life to
Christ. Thus the Grace of our Lord Jesus Christ saved me and since then, I have
been caught up by the spirit of God which is the spirit of Grace. I started
preaching the Gospel to other fellow Cameroonians. As God will work it out, one
day, I was called by God to become a full time Minister. I was eventually
trained in our Bible school in Bamenda at Mile 3 Nkwen after which I started my
Pastoral work. In August 2014, I was sent to the Southwest Region to assist the
Area Supervisor here in this prestigious congregation. Since I came here, we
have by the Grace of God been working with other colleagues to see that the
spiritual aspect of this church really comes up to standard. We don’t want
people to be simply church goers. When people come to church we get to know
them well and involve them in activities. If there is any problem in the lives
of these Christians, we pray and deliver them. By the Grace of God so many
people have been delivered and through this deliverance, they have a right
thinking mind. In this way they can re-plan their lives and many have come back
to testify.
Recently you had a
retreat programme in your congregation. What is the reason behind these regular
retreats?
The aim of that retreat was to revive or awaken our spirit in
the things of God by coming and praying together, listening to the word of God
and examining our lives to see whether we are actually working towards God. The
Bible says there are two roads; the broad and the narrow. In the broad road
there are many people while in the narrow road there are few selected ones. We
have decided to work on this narrow part which will lead us to God. We also
came together to examine whether we are actually on the narrow way. The retreat
took three days at the end of which was a communion in which we remembered our
Lord Jesus Christ doing the same and saying that this will always be done in
remembrance of him. This event is repetitive in nature and comes up in the last
week of every month on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays. It is done with
fasting and prayer.
Despite all the
laudable work of evangelists around the world, there still seem to be quite
much to do. What message do you have in this regard?
As somebody called by the Lord to carry on the preaching of
the Gospel, I seize this opportunity to tell my audience that you should not
live without the Savior Jesus Christ and you should not be without a pastor;
somebody that will direct you and show you the things of God. You should not
live without a determination that you want to make it through God at all cost.
There are many who
believe that the Christian world has not yet met up with its objectives. Where
do you think the Christian leaders still have to catch up?
Christianity is not religiosity but about relationships. If
you liken it to being religious then you miss the point. The first question you
have to ask is, who you have to relate with and the first thing you have to do
is to relate with God through Jesus Christ. If you have missed this point then
you are a religious person but if you have related with God through Jesus then
you also have to relate with other human beings. The cross is horizontal and
vertical meaning that you have to relate with God and with your fellow human
beings. Relating with God gives you all the spiritual strength you need to
associate with your fellow human beings. The main problem we see in the world
today is a question of lack of relationship because we have put aside the
person who has to relate us to each other. We are struggling and some are
struggling to do it with money, some with religion and some in other ways which
has never worked. The bible says that Jesus Christ is the prince of peace and
he himself says as long as I am in the world I am the light of the world. So
when we don’t come to him we wonder around in darkness.
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