April 23, 2021 Show with Dr. Conrad Mbewe on “God’s Design for the Church”

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And it certainly is, without exaggeration, a very happy Friday for me because after much hounding and chasing, I finally have secured Dr. Conrad M. Bayway to be my guest once again on Iron Sharpens Iron Radio.

Dr. M. Bayway has his Ph .D. from the University of Pretoria. He is the pastor of Kibwata Baptist Church in Lusaka, Zambia, Africa, founding chancellor, senior lecturer, and director of advancement and faculty at African Christian University, and author and contributor to many books.

And today we are going to be addressing one of his books, God's Design for the Church, and we're also going to be announcing the G3 Conference 2021, where Dr. M. Bayway will be on a very large roster of speakers.

And it's my honor and privilege to welcome you back to Iron Sharpens Iron Radio, my dear friend of many years, Dr. Conrad M. Bayway.

Thank you.

Yes, and it's hard to believe that it was over 25 years ago that we first met at Grace Reform Baptist Church of Long Island in Merrick, when you were speaking for the very first time in the United States.

Yes, that was 1996, very well.

Okay, that was a year off, but I so much fondly remember that. I remember that we had you over a three-day period of Friday, Saturday, and Sunday for a conference that weekend, and not including the members of our church, we had over 500 visitors over those three days due to a very extensive ad campaign that we ran on the station where I used to work, WMCA Radio, 570 AM, a Salem media affiliate.

And we aired a very powerful clip of you preaching, and that had our phones ringing off the hook literally for a month, and then we had over 500 visitors. What a phenomenal week that was, and it also was the beginning of a friendship that lasted all these years between you and I.

And I can remember, I forget, I think it was your wife, Felicity, who said, how come you've remained in contact with Chris Arnz in all these years and remained so close to him? And I remember you just saying something like, I have no idea.

Oh, great. Yeah, I remember she was actually helping me man my exhibitor's booth at the Deep South Founders Conference in Mississippi, Laurel, Mississippi. I am going to just start off the interview to whet the appetite of our listeners, who hopefully, many of them will hopefully join me September 30th through October 2nd at the G3 Conference in Atlanta, Georgia on the theme, Christ is Supreme Overall, where you will be one of over 20 speakers.

I'm so thrilled that you are there again. I think that you have preached at every one that I have been, where I've been in attendance. I'm not 100 sure of that, but I've been at four. Well, actually, this fall will be my fourth, but I want to play just a clip of a sermon by you.

At a previous G3 Conference. If we are going to have courageous hearts, we need to meditate deeply on the God who is. As long as we have an inherited religion that hasn't mesmerized our souls, that hasn't gripped us to the very depth of our being, we will never be Lutherans in this generation, never.

Therefore, brethren, we need to be those who meditate deeply. That was just a little taste for our listeners,.

And we will be announcing all the information that you need throughout the program to register for G3 2021. I don't know if it's too early to ask you this, but I know that the overall theme is Christ is Supreme Overall.

Do you have your own subtitle that you have been assigned to speak on,.

Or have you chosen a subtitle or theme yet? Many of our listeners may not realize,.

But you are a very dear friend of Vodie Baucom, who was originally scheduled to be on the roster at the G3 Conference. In fact, I believe it was you who contacted Vodie to invite him to co-labor with you in Zambia, Africa, which he has done.

He uprooted his entire family, his wife and children, and moved to Zambia, but is currently in the United States because he is recovering from quadruple bypass surgery. So, it is not 100 certain if he will be healthy enough to speak this year at the G3 as originally planned, but obviously it's not guaranteed that any of us will be there.

That's all according to God's sovereignty. But can you give us any kind of an update on Vodie's health? Because I know a lot of people constantly ask me. Yes, well, I have been reminding our listeners every single day to pray for him and for his quick and full recovery, and hopefully that we hear the good news that he is remaining on the speaking roster at the G3 Conference.

I would love to see him there. I remember when Paul Washer was removed temporarily from the roster at a G3 Conference because of his own heart problems, but they put him back on because he recovered, and it was great to have him present there.

Yeah, amen. So, tell us about Kibwata Baptist Church in Lusaka, Zambia, Africa. I know that it is a solidly reformed Baptist church. Tell.

Our listeners about that church. If anybody wants to find out more information about Kibwata.

Baptist Church of Lusaka, Zambia, Africa, go to kibwatabaptistchurch .com, kibwatabaptistchurch .com, and that is spelled k-a-b-w-a-t-a-baptistchurch .com, and hopefully we'll remember to repeat that.

Now, tell us a little bit more about African Christian University. I'm very excited to see what the Lord is doing through you and Voti Baucom with that institution, and let our listeners know not only about what this university offers and how it benefits the local people, especially of Zambia, but also how they can help.

Yeah.

I think the Lord closed our eyes. We jumped. That website is acu-usa .com,.

A-c-u-dash-u-s-a-dot-com. Now, just out of curiosity, must you be physically present in Zambia to benefit from the studies there, especially the Divinity School? I'm just thinking out loud here that there might be people in our audience spanning the globe.

We have listeners in at least 27 countries, including the United States of America, that we are aware of, and people might love the opportunity to seek ministerial training with Voti Baucom and with you, so is that possible to do a remote kind of course like some colleges and universities and.

Seminaries offer? I remember when I saw Voti speak at a conference here in Pennsylvania.

A couple of months ago before his health declined, very shortly before his health declined, he was mentioning that in addition to the agricultural, there are certain industries local to Zambia that are very large, that you are offering courses to help people become trained in those specific industries or fields.

I remember, if I'm not mistaken, I think one of them even surprised me that it was such a big industry in your area, but can you tell us about those things? I know that agricultural is a no-brainer for Africa,.

But what else do you offer there? And once again, that website is acu-usa .com, acu-usa .com.

And Voti, I'm excited to talk to you about a book that is, I believe, your latest book, published by Crossway, God's Design for the Church, with a subtitle, A Guide for African Pastors and Ministry Leaders.

Now, is that subtitle a bit misleading in that a pastor, no matter where on.

The globe he lives, may benefit greatly from this book? Yes. You are drowning. I am right now in the studio. Yeah, and I didn't think I should be. Most people have shelves for books. I actually make shelves with my books.

There you are. There you are. We're going to be talking about that.

Book when we come back from our first break. If you have a question for Dr. Conrad Mbewe, send it to chrisarnsen at gmail .com, C-H-R-I-S-A-R-N-Z-E-N at gmail .com. Give us your first name, at least, your city and state of residence, and your country of residence, if you live outside the USA.

Please only remain anonymous if your question involves a personal and private matter. Don't go away. We'll be right back with Dr. Conrad Mbewe, right after these messages.

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Dr. M. Beyway, this may seem like a very simplistic question, but it is obvious that many professing Christians and even pastors and denominations don't seem to understand what the church is and why God established it.

So if you could answer the question, what is the church?

Yeah, in fact, because that's the best starting point, and as you've rightly observed, you know, people, a lot of people in Africa have grown up going to church, they basically haven't given thought. It is very important, it seems like a no-brainer.

If you call yourself or you call the church of which you are a member a Christian church, it would seem like a no-brainer that Christ is the head of that church, the founder and head. But at the same time, you have churches like the Roman Catholic Church and you have aberrant groups and cults that have a leader that although he may never dare say he is on the same par with Christ or superior to Christ or a replacement for Christ, very often these leaders act that way.

And I dare to say, I believe that one of the greatest heresies and blasphemies of the Church of Rome is that they believe that their Pope is a vicar of Christ, Christ on earth. But if you could pick up where I left off there.

Yeah, yeah.

Obviously, one of the things that is rampant in evangelicalism, modern-day evangelicalism, is the leaders of the church and the members of the church and the churches, the congregations, forgetting what really is the church's task in the world, the specific role.

They replace what God has commanded the church to be responsible for with other things. The church really has become in many places and instances a self-improvement center where basically you are there to hear a message, a lecture, a speech about how to make your life happier and better in every sphere of your life, whether it be your marriage, whether it be your career, or whether it just be relationships with friends and even strangers and acquaintances.

And basically, these things become paramount. They eclipse the gospel, they eclipse discipline, they eclipse anything in a church's function that would perhaps make people feel uncomfortable or uneasy because they're being reminded about their sin in biblically faithful churches.

So what do you have to say about the church forgetting about.

Its main task in the world? Yeah, why? The social gospel, which still is very alive and well,.

Unfortunately, amongst us, used to be championed exclusively by those on the left, where they elevated very good things at times. They elevated feeding the poor, caring for the needs of the poor, the physical needs of the poor.

Obviously, even in James's epistle, we are commanded to do these things, and other places in scripture. But they elevate those things so far above the gospel that they eclipse the gospel and even make the gospel secondary, tertiary, or not even essential at all.

There are even churches that provide all kinds of services to the community, and they might even forbid their laborers from proselytizing and being pushy with the gospel because they don't want to offend anyone.

So they are really, they have become nothing more than a place where one might find food, clothing, they might be given assistance on housing and finances. And of course, those are important things. I'm not here to lessen the need for those things in the functioning of true Christians.

But today, you have, and for quite some time now, and it began, I think, in the late 20th century, or perhaps didn't begin then, but became more and more prevalent. Even amongst conservatives, there is a different version of the social gospel, where very important things, I'm not trying to lessen their severity or importance, they're extremely important.

Like protesting the murder of unborn children, protesting the abomination of men marrying men and women marrying women, as if that is even a possibility, really. Or men becoming women and women becoming men, which we know is also an impossible task.

But with some conservative or right-leaning churches, that almost has become the gospel to oppose those things. And they actually embrace as brethren those who do not even believe in the gospel. As much as I may love Glenn Beck, for instance, I love hearing Glenn Beck very often on TV and radio.

I agree with him so much. But I know Christians who believe that he is a brother in Christ. He's a Mormon. So we have to be very careful when we are doing right things, and even things we're commanded to do, that these things.

Must never even come close to eclipsing the gospel. We have to go to our midway break right now.

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The Church's Task and the Danger of a Social Gospel

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