Adventist pastors recharged on God’s business.

BURNING with evangelical fire in Mutare recently, Seventh Day Adventist Pastors brought down the roof on the need to do God’s business so that He in turn works in our businesses.

Speaking to members of ASI, a group of Adventist business persons and professionals from Gweru, Murewa, Rusape, Harare and larger Mutare, Elder Dengure, Pastor Madzorere and the ASI East Zimbabwe Conference Director-Pastor Irvine Gwatiringa were in unison on two principles that carried an articulation of the whole ASI Sabbath message of the day:

◆ Take care of God’s business-and god will in turn take care of our businesses and

◆ Investing in God’s business is an asset without risks.

It ran under the theme: About my father’s business. Pastor Madzorere who delivered a brief and darting divine service quoted scriptures, clinically illustrative of Biblical instances of God’s people’s unimaginably huge sacrifices to protect what was God’s and doing God’s work. He emphasized the Adventist call to evangelism, to spread the word without boundaries. “God’s secret is not going to be revealed until mankind reflects Jesus’ character in every sense,” he said, quoting from the book of Revelations. The man of God warned Adventists not to only trust in prayer, but after steadfast prayer like Ezekia to do something. His end ‘prophetic’ warning was sobering if not frightening, “We must act fast in whatever business we must do for our Father. Soon we may not be able to do all we want to do or all that must be done. Let us make heavenly hay while the sun shines.”

Echoing the same sobering sentiments was the Mutare ASI Chapter chairperson, Elder Nangisayi Marange, “The time is now. Soon we shall all get into the sunsets of our days. As babies or toddlers we could not go about our Father’s business. Soon, as cronies we will be like toddlers, incapacitated and hardly functional. The time is now between toddlers and incapacitated grey-heads. And that time is not forever. Let’s work now. Let’s relentlessly and bravely get our Father’s business done,” said the Alpha Institute owner and principal.

The firebrand Elder Dengure, a Harare-based business man of substance in his own right, focused emphatically on the need to pray but not forget to help the poor. “A hungry person does not want your prayer. He needs food. A naked one needs clothing. We need to give. . . give . . . give. God’s Mathematics is divinely strange,” he said. “With God, there remains more where you take away from.” If you give away you remain with more. In giving you receive more. Subtraction is like Addition in God’s Arithmetic. That is why ASI is not a money-making association, but a money-giving entity of the church. We fund church projects,” said Pastor Dengure.

Pastor Gwatiringa briefly but succinctly circumscribed his office’s position on evangelism and doing the Father’s business. Said the ASI East Zimbabwe Conference director: “There is no way church can today run away from Media. This is where people are: On radio, television, You tube, WhatsApp!”

He strongly spoke in favour of the Mutare ASI Radio program running on Diamond FM Radio since April 2018: Describing resistance to the radio evangelism program as shameless audacity, the man of God said God knew about this radio project and mission before all of us knew anything about it. “God will provide resources to fund this radio program in the ways best known to Him and already in place. It has started and nobody can stop it,” said Pastor Gwatiringa. “God has inexhaustible numbers of men and women to go about His business . . . which job can and will be done without those with shameless audacity . . . those who throw mud on His business and plans.”

The other ASI church related projects that were highlighted and whose program of implementation were launched by the ASI East Zimbabwe Conference director on the following Sunday were the Special Needs Church, Building in rural Zimunya, Prison Outreach Integration Association. An Adventist religious accapella ensemble from Mozambique graced the ASI Sabbath with sweet church melodies. They are by far better than Boyz 2 Men!