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Programu ya Cheti inajibu maswali ya kuchagua jibu. Shahada ya Mshiriki inaongeza maswali ya kujaza pengo; M.Div. na Th.M. zinaongeza hayo na maswali ya majibu mafupi. Asilimia 90 ya kila sehemu inahitajika ili kufaulu.
Utangulizi: Kutoka kwenye Hadithi hadi kwenye NafsiIntroduction: From the Story to the Soul
Tumefuatilia kusudi la kimisionari la Mungu kuanzia ahadi kwa Ibrahimu, kupitia Agizo Kuu na injili inayoenea katika kitabu cha Matendo, na katika karne ishirini za wamisionari mashuhuri na wafiadini. Sasa tunageuka kutoka kwenye hadithi hadi kwenye nafsi. Moyo wa mmisionari unaonekanaje hasa? Ni rahisi kudhani kwamba moyo kama huo ni wa tabaka maalum la Wakristo wa ajabu tu. Lakini sivyo. Moyo wa mmisionari ni umbo la kawaida tu la moyo wowote ambao umeshikwa na injili. Katika sehemu hii tunafikiria mambo matatu ambayo kila moyo wa mmisionari unashiriki — wito, gharama, na nafasi katika kanisa linalotuma. Kwa maana Agizo Kuu, kama tulivyoona, linamdai kila mwamini: wengine wanatumwa kwenda, na wote wanatumwa kuomba na kutoa. Mashamba yako tayari. "Mavuno ni mengi, lakini watenda kazi ni wachache. Basi mwombeni Bwana wa mavuno apeleke watenda kazi katika mavuno yake" (Mathayo 9:37–38, SUV).We have traced the missionary purpose of God from the promise to Abraham, through the Great Commission and the spreading gospel of Acts, and across twenty centuries of giants and martyrs. Now we turn from the story to the soul. What does a missionary heart actually look like? It is easy to imagine that such a heart belongs only to a special class of super-Christians. But that is not so. A missionary heart is simply the normal shape of any heart that has been gripped by the gospel. In this unit we consider three things that every missionary heart shares — a call, a cost, and a place in the sending church. For the Great Commission, as we have seen, lays its claim on every believer: some are sent to go, and all are sent to pray and to give. The fields are ready. "The harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest" (Matthew 9:37–38, NKJV).
I. WitoI. The Call
Mmisionari hutoka wapi? Si kutoka katika tamaa ya kibinadamu, bali kutoka katika wito wa Mungu. Tuliliona hilo huko Antiokia, ambapo Roho Mtakatifu alisema, "Nitengeeni Barnaba na Sauli," na wito bado unakuja kwa njia ile ile — kutoka katika kanisa linaloomba na kuabudu, kwa moyo ambao tayari una mzigo kwa ajili ya waliopotea. Wito si mara zote maono ya ghafla na ya ajabu. Mara nyingi zaidi ni mzigo unaozidi kuongezeka ambao hauondoki tu: ufahamu unaokua kuhusu mamilioni ambao hawajawahi kusikia, na utayari unaosema pamoja na nabii, "Mimi hapa, nitume mimi" (Isaya 6:8, SUV). Si kila mwamini ameitwa kuvuka bahari. Lakini kila mwamini ameitwa kuwa tayari, na kumwuliza Mungu kwa uaminifu ni sehemu gani amemwekea katika kazi hii kuu.Where does a missionary come from? Not from human ambition, but from the call of God. We saw it at Antioch, where the Holy Spirit said, "Separate to Me Barnabas and Saul," and the call still comes in the same way — out of a praying, worshiping church, to a heart already burdened for the lost. The call is not always a sudden, dramatic vision. More often it is a deepening burden that simply will not go away: a growing awareness of the millions who have never heard, and a willingness that says with the prophet, "Here am I! Send me" (Isaiah 6:8, NKJV). Not every believer is called to cross an ocean. But every believer is called to be willing, and to ask God honestly what part He has appointed for him in the great work.
II. GharamaII. The Cost
Wito daima hubeba gharama. Bwana alisema juu ya Paulo kwamba angemwonyesha ni mambo mangapi impasayo kuteswa kwa ajili ya jina lake, na Yesu hakuwahi kuificha gharama ya kumfuata: "Mtu akitaka kuja nyuma yangu, ajikane mwenyewe, ajitwike msalaba wake kila siku, anifuate" (Luka 9:23, SUV). Mmisionari anaweza kuitwa kuacha nyumbani, familia, starehe, na usalama. Judson aliwazika mkewe na watoto wake; Slessor alifanya kazi peke yake miongoni mwa watu hatari; Elliot alimwaga damu yake msituni. Hata hivyo gharama si kamwe neno la mwisho. Yesu aliahidi kwamba mtu atakayepoteza maisha yake kwa ajili yake atayaona, na maneno ambayo Jim Elliot aliandika kabla ya kufa bado yanajibu kila hofu: si mpumbavu yule anayetoa kile asichoweza kukibakiza ili apate kile asichoweza kukipoteza. Moyo unaohesabu gharama kwa uaminifu na bado ukaenda umeielewa injili.The call always carries a cost. The Lord said of Paul that He would show him how many things he must suffer for His name's sake, and Jesus never hid the price of following Him: "If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow Me" (Luke 9:23, NKJV). The missionary may be called to leave home, family, comfort, and safety. Judson buried his wife and children; Slessor labored alone among the dangerous; Elliot poured out his blood in the jungle. Yet the cost is never the final word. Jesus promised that whoever loses his life for His sake will find it, and the words Jim Elliot wrote before he died still answer every fear: he is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. The heart that honestly counts the cost and goes anyway has understood the gospel.
III. Kanisa LinalotumaIII. The Sending Church
Lakini moyo wa mmisionari si moyo wa yule anayekwenda tu. Kama tulivyojifunza kutoka katika Agizo Kuu lenyewe, wale wanaotuma wana majukumu mengi sawa na wale wanaokwenda. Kanisa linalotuma ni la lazima sawa na mmisionari linalomtuma, kwa maana "Tena wahubirije, wasipopelekwa?" (Warumi 10:15, SUV). Hapa tena kuna wajibu tatu wa kila anayetuma, ambao tulikutana nao kwa mara ya kwanza katika Sehemu ya 3. Kwanza, kujitambulisha na mmisionari — kuifanya kazi yake kuwa kazi yetu, na kamwe tusimtume kisha tukamsahau. Pili, kumtegemeza kwa maombi — kuuweka umeme ukiwaka, tukimwinua mbele za Mungu siku kwa siku. Tatu, kumtegemeza kwa utoaji wetu — kuhakikisha kwamba kazi haikwami kwa kukosa mahitaji, tukihesabu kuwa ni fursa kushiriki katika kazi ambayo sisi wenyewe hatuwezi kuifanya. Na thawabu inashirikiwa, kwa maana Yesu alisema, "mtu ye yote atakayewapa kikombe cha maji kunywa kwa sababu ninyi ni wa Kristo... hatakosa kamwe kupata thawabu yake" (Marko 9:41, SUV). Yule anayempa mtu kikombe cha maji ya baridi na yule anayevuka bahari wanashiriki thawabu ile ile.But a missionary heart is not only the heart of the one who goes. As we learned from the Great Commission itself, those who send have just as many responsibilities as those who go. The sending church is as necessary as the missionary it sends, for "how shall they preach unless they are sent?" (Romans 10:15, NKJV). Here again are the three duties of every sender, which we first met in Unit 3. First, to identify with the missionary — to make his work our work, and never to send him out and then forget him. Second, to support him in prayer — to keep the power turned on, lifting him up before God day by day. Third, to support him in our giving — to see that the work does not stall for want of means, counting it a privilege to share in a labor we cannot do ourselves. And the reward is shared, for Jesus said, "whoever gives you a cup of water to drink in My name... will by no means lose his reward" (Mark 9:41, NKJV). The one who hands a cup of cold water and the one who crosses the sea share in the very same reward.
Hili na liwe zaidi ya fundisho; na liwe mzigo. Ikiwa tunawatuma, wao ni sehemu yetu iliyopanuliwa; kazi yao ni kazi yetu, na kazi yetu ni kazi yao. Tuna jukumu la kuwategemeza kwa maombi. Ni lini mara ya mwisho ulipomwombea mmisionari? Ni wangapi kati yetu wanaoweza hata kuwataja kwa majina wamisionari watatu au wanne? Huenda wamisionari wetu wanajiuliza kwa nini hawaoni matunda zaidi; mtu anapaswa kuwaambia kwamba wanaotuma wamezima umeme. Na tuuwashe tena. Na tuna jukumu la kuwategemeza kwa utoaji wetu. Wale wanaokwenda wanatoa maisha yao; wale wanaotuma lazima wahakikishe kwamba kazi haikwami kwa kukosa msaada. Kila mwaka baadhi ya wanaohisi wameitwa kuwa wamisionari wanarudishwa kwa sababu kanisa haliwezi kumudu gharama ya kuwatuma. Ulimwengu uliopotea unalilia ujumbe wa Kristo, lakini mara nyingi sana hakuna sauti inayozungumza nao — na wengi wataishi na kufa bila kumjua Mwokozi, kwa sababu hakuna aliyetumwa.Let this be more than a doctrine; let it become a burden. If we send them, they are an extension of us; their work is our work, and our work is their work. We have the responsibility to support them in prayer. When was the last time you prayed for a missionary? How many of us can even name three or four missionaries by name? Our missionaries may be wondering why they are not seeing more fruit; someone should tell them that the senders have turned off the power. Let us turn it on again. And we have the responsibility to support them in our giving. Those who go give their lives; those who send must see to it that the work does not stall for lack of support. Every year some who feel called as missionaries are turned away because the church cannot afford to send them. The lost world is crying out for the message of Christ, but too often there is no voice speaking to them — and many will live and die never having known the Savior, because no one was sent.
Kielelezo — Stephen Grellet na kambi tupu ya wakata mbaoAn illustration — Stephen Grellet and the empty lumber camp
Stephen Grellet, Mkwekera (Quaker) mashuhuri, wakati mmoja alihisi mzigo na uongozi wa Roho Mtakatifu kuwahubiria injili wanaume wa kambi moja ya wakata mbao nchini Marekani. Lakini alipofika, aliikuta kambi ikiwa tupu, kwa maana wanaume walikuwa wameenda ndani zaidi msituni. Hata hivyo, akiamini kwamba Roho ndiye aliyemtuma, alisimama katika ukumbi mtupu wa chakula na kuhubiri mahubiri yake, yaliyosikiwa, kama alivyodhani, na kuta tupu za jengo na miti mirefu tu. Miaka mingi baadaye, alipokuwa akivuka Daraja la London katika giza la jioni, alisimamishwa na mtu mmoja aliyesema, “Wewe ndiye mtu ambaye nimekuwa nikikutafuta miaka hii yote.” “Lazima kuna kosa,” Grellet alisema; “Sijawahi kukuona.” “Hapana,” mtu huyo alisema, “lakini je, hukuhubiri katika kambi ya wakata mbao katika msitu wa Marekani? Nilikuwa nimerudi kuchukua msumeno ulioachwa nyuma, na kupitia ufa kati ya magogo nilikusikia ukihubiri. Nilihukumiwa moyoni kwa ajili ya dhambi, nikapata nakala ya Maandiko, nikajifunza njia ya uzima, nikaokolewa, na nimewaleta wengine pamoja nami katika ufalme wa mbinguni.” Neno la Mungu halirudi bure. Sisi tuna jukumu la kulituma — na kuyaacha mavuno mikononi mwake.Stephen Grellet, the noted Quaker, once felt a burden and the leading of the Holy Spirit to preach the gospel to the men of an American lumber camp. But when he arrived, he found the camp deserted, for the men had gone deeper into the forest. Believing nevertheless that the Spirit had sent him, he stood up in the empty mess hall and preached his sermon, heard, as he thought, only by the bare walls of the building and the lofty trees. Years afterward, crossing London Bridge in the evening gloom, he was stopped by a man who said, “You are the man I have been looking for all these years.” “There must be some mistake,” said Grellet; “I have never seen you.” “No,” said the man, “but did you not preach in a lumber camp in the American forest? I had gone back for a saw that had been left behind, and through the chink in the logs I heard you preach. I was convicted of sin, I got hold of a copy of the Scriptures, I learned the way of life, I was saved, and I have brought others with me into the kingdom of heaven.” The word of God does not return void. We are responsible to send it out — and to leave the harvest in His hands.
IV. Kila Moyo, Kila MahaliIV. Every Heart, Every Place
Basi, moyo wa mmisionari si mali ya wachache. Ni wa mchungaji na wa mkulima, wa vijana na wa wazee, wa yule anayekwenda na wa yule anayebaki. Swali ambalo Agizo Kuu linamwuliza kila mmoja wetu si, "Je, wewe ni mmisionari kwa kazi ya kitaaluma?" bali, "Je, moyo wako uko katika misheni?" Wengine wataitwa kwenda kwa makundi ya watu wasiofikiwa duniani. Wengi zaidi wataitwa kutuma, kuomba, kutoa, na kulea watoto watakaokwenda. Lakini hakuna mwamini aliyesamehewa misheni, kwa maana si kitu kidogo kuliko mapigo ya moyo wa Mungu aliyemtuma Mwanawe mwenyewe ulimwenguni.The missionary heart, then, is not the property of a few. It belongs to the pastor and the plowman, the young and the old, the one who goes and the one who stays. The question the Great Commission puts to each of us is not, "Are you a missionary by profession?" but, "Is your heart in the mission?" Some will be called to go to the unreached peoples of the earth. Many more will be called to send, to pray, to give, and to raise up children who will go. But no believer is excused from the mission, for it is nothing less than the heartbeat of the God who sent His own Son into the world.
Hitimisho: Moyo Unaopenda Kile Mungu AnachopendaConclusion: The Heart That Loves What God Loves
Moyo wa mmisionari ni moyo tu unaopenda kile Mungu anachopenda na kutaka kile Mungu anachotaka — wokovu wa mataifa. Huzaliwa ndani yetu wakati ule tunapoacha kuuliza kama kazi hii ni yetu na kuanza kuuliza tutachukua sehemu gani ndani yake. Iwe Mungu anakutuma ng'ambo ya dunia, au anakuweka magotini na kuufungua mkono wako hapa nyumbani, Bwana yule yule anatumikiwa, na injili ile ile inasonga mbele hadi miisho ya dunia. Na atupe sisi sote, kila mmoja, moyo wa mmisionari.A missionary heart is simply a heart that loves what God loves and wants what God wants — the salvation of the nations. It is born in us the moment we stop asking whether the task is ours and begin asking what part we will take in it. Whether God sends you across the world, or keeps you on your knees and opens your hand at home, the same Lord is served, and the same gospel goes forward to the ends of the earth. May He give us, every one, the heart of a missionary.
Mtihani wa Mwisho wa Sehemu ya 9Unit 9 Final Exam
Cheti: maswali 20 ya kuchagua jibu. Shahada ya Mshiriki: maswali ya kuchagua jibu na maswali 10 ya kujaza nafasi zilizoachwa wazi. Shahada ya Uzamili ya Huduma ya Kiungu (M.Div.) na Shahada ya Uzamili ya Teolojia (Th.M.): maswali ya kuchagua jibu, ya kujaza nafasi na maswali 10 ya majibu mafupi. Unahitaji asilimia 90 ya kila sehemu ili kufaulu. Usipofaulu, mtihani utakusubirisha muda mfupi kabla ya kujaribu tena.Certificate track: the 20 multiple-choice questions. Associate: multiple choice and the 10 fill-in-the-blank questions. M.Div. and Th.M.: multiple choice, fill-ins and the 10 short-answer questions. 90% of each part is required to pass. If you do not pass, the exam waits a short time before you can try again.
Kuchagua Jibu — Maswali 20Multiple Choice — 20 Questions
Majibu Mafupi — Maswali 10 Short Answer — 10 Questions
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