Prayer Fuel
Aila Tasse, East African Movement Leader
"A church is an outcome of disciples. It’s not an end in itself."
"We pray to see multiplication of churches, beginning with multiplication of disciples."
Here is a podcast wear Dr Aila Tasse is interviewed:
https://praxeis.org/52-aila-tasse-cabbages-in-the-wilderness-2/
Aila Tasse from Kenya shares about the importance of prayer, the role of the Spirit and forming church to see movement. He is also speaks to many of us who finds ourselves in Western contexts.
Aila shares how crucial it is to be designing our personal lives around the areas of what he calls continuous, concentrated and scheduled prayer. He then points to Acts to describe how the Spirit is the driver of movement and leads us into mission as we pray.
Aila then reveals how we need to qualify church without getting caught up in its many forms. He shares a story of how a seemingly uninterested security guard took what he heard and obeyed it back into his village. The result was four generations of churches that multiplied from Kenya into neighbouring Uganda.
Aila also shares how to see Discovery Groups become churches that multiply. He speaks about how vital it is for us to see our groups move through transition points to become church. The functions of church are more important than the numbers with baptism seen as a crucial initiation for church formation. Discovery, empowerment of ordinary people and focusing on replication are mentioned as some of the seeds to see churches multiply.
