WHAT TO DO WHEN DEDICATING A NEW BUILDING To some of my friends, Here is something I sent to the Colombo Theological Seminary council that you might find interesting. Ajith Dear Colleagues on the Council of CTS, I have been ploughing through the long lists of Nehemiah as I check the new Sinhala …
Published in Fulfilling the Great Commission in the Twenty-First Century: Essays on Revival, Evangelism, and Discipleship in Honor of Dr. Robert E. Coleman edited by Lyle W. Dorsett and Ajith Fernando (Franklin, TN: Seedbed Publishing, 2015), pp. 75-98. Discipling the Urban Poor: Observations from the Field Ajith Fernando In the late 1960s …
PROCLAIMING THE GOSPEL IN SRI LANKA Some Lessons from the Methodist Heritage Ajith Fernando As this is a conference connected with the bicentenary of the Methodist Church of Sri Lanka, I have decided to adopt the approach of looking into some historically distinctive features of the Methodist movement and applying them to our …
Written in 2005 FROM MEDITATION TO JESUS? A colleague of mine who came to Christ from Hinduism made a surprising discovery this month. Though he has been a Christian for over twenty years his family members, who live abroad, had shown no interest in the gospel. But, while visiting them in their …
Evangelicals Around the World: A Global Handbook of the 21st Century Brief Comment on the Future of Evangelicals: The wonderful growth of the Evangelical Church in the Global South needs to be accompanied by conscientious Bible teaching, especially on Christian character and ethics. Earlier, liberalism brought nominalism to the church by denying …
Written in July 2003 HYMNS AND WORSHIP SONGS In this post-modern generation we have seen a most welcome resurgence in popularity of the more meditative and emotionally satisfying worship choruses. But I think the church has lost a great treasure in neglecting the hymns which celebrate and reflect on the great doctrines …
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 …