Books by Bernard Muthamia

Most of the well-established churches in Kenya have their roots in early missionary work, when Europeans first took an interest in the area and they saw an opportunity to preach to a wide new people. There are more than 4,000 registered churches in Kenya, belonging to an innumerable variety of denominations. They can range from very mainstream churches, to lesser-known evangelical and gospel churches. Churches in Kenya are predominately Christian, though many different denominations and congregations exist within the population. Overall, more than three quarters of the population identify themselves as Christian (either Protestant or Roman Catholic) To begin with, Roman Catholic missionary outreach in East Africa was begun by the French Congregation of the Holy Ghost among the ex-slaves of Reunion. The initiative was taken by bishop Maupoint, who established a permanent station in Zanzibar in 1863, with two priests, Anthony Homier and Edward Baur, and two brothers. At the height of the abolition of the slave trade, the Congregation went to the mainland at Bagamoyo, where they established another station that served as a resettlement village for the liberated slaves.

The purpose of evangelizing is to help a person to accept Jesus as savior and Lord. Producing converts is God's work. Evangelism is to present Jesus Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit, that men might come to trust Him as savior and serve Him as Lord. I have been asking myself this question. ¿Where do we go wrong?¿ This is because after preaching to non believers and they are born again, after a while they are not seen again in the believers assembly. I realized that we do not teach them according to the command of our Lord Jesus Christ. We need to come up with discipleship classes in order to ground the new believers in the basics of faith. When we train them, we impart skills to produce spiritual maturity and fruitfulness in their ministries. This will also help them to be real Christ followers, to reach out to others and follow them up, identify and use their gifts. A disciple is a learner who follows his leader with the intent to pass on what he has learned as he puts it into practice in his own life. A disciple is also a Christian who is growing in conformity to Christ, reaching out to others and is working in follow up to conserve his fruit and is reproducing himself.