Ajith Fernando I write this to encourage writers, teachers, and others who work to communicate God’s truth, especially in countries that cannot afford to set people apart to specialise in these kinds of ministry. Here are some things that will help us to persevere in doing what is needed to faithfully feed the flock. Faithfulness …
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~ Ajith Fernando Some years ago, a survey was conducted among young people about what achievement they desired most. They were given various options to choose from. The most popular option emerged as “a few minutes of fame.” We live in a world where success and significance are measured by the things that famous people have …
Ajith Fernando and Graham Hill discuss Jesus-driven ministry, reclaiming friendship, and sharing the truth in love. Ajith Fernando is an inspiring spiritual leader, who has spent his life serving among some of the most vulnerable and marginalized people in the world, and who shows us what true servant leadership looks like. Source: https://theglobalchurchproject.com/video/ajith-fernando-jesus-driven-ministry/
Early 1999 Reflections AFTER GETTING OUR RADIO LICENCES Ajith Fernando A few days ago I got our licences for 1999 for our van and home radios. I reflected afresh on the fact that, while it seems that the Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation gets most of the funds from that, we hardly …
Submitted to the Journal of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in February 2001. I do not know whether it was published. A slightly modified version was published in a book in honour of Sam Kamaleson Helping internalize the truth of the gospel in an age uninterested in truth ajith Fernando One of the …
Written in January 2005 shortly after the Tsunami. Subsequently Published by RBC and many other groups. Nothing I have written has had such a wide circulation. WHEN TRAGEDY STRIKES Biblical Reflections on How Christians Respond to Calamities Ajith Fernando I am writing this a few days after the tsunami waves struck Sri …
Early 1999 Dear Colleagues, Here is something I wrote recently that I thought would be good to share with you. I get this awful feeling that I am becoming more and more like Cacophonics the Bard in the Asterix comics–giving unsolicited and unwelcome renderings at unwanted times. I have two comments on …
Published as “Response to Persecution: An Evangelical Perspective” in Witness In Context Essays In Honour of Eardley Mendis, edited b Monica J. Melanchthon and George Zachariah (Tiruvalla: Christava Sahitya Samiti, 2007), pp. 206-214. AN EVANGELICAL PERSPECTIVE ON RESPONDING TO PERSECUTION Ajith Fernando A key feature of the Evangelical understanding of …
Published in Unashamed Workmen: How Expositors Prepare and Preach (Mentor, 2014). SERMON PREPARATION ON THE RUN Ajith Fernando I am writing as a non-pastor who has been actively involved in the same church, which my wife and I helped “restart,” for thirty-three years. I preached regularly there during the early years, …
September 2008 STORIES AND TRUTH Ajith Fernando I had the privilege of doing the Bible expositions at the Youth for Christ International General Assembly in South Africa this year (2008). I believe the Lord blessed the messages. However, one thing left me a little uneasy. My talks were loaded with stories from …