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Shalom Greeting to you!

It
was South-Eastern part of Nepal, where spent most of my childhood and youth. I
was born and brought up into a devout Hindu high caste Brahmin family with
heavy rituals and religiosity. But in my 13^th, I started searching
for more about God. I willfully deserted the family traditions and rites, joined
an atheist movement accepting Marxist-Leninist communism. Yet, my search for
God still continued, kept exploring and found a Bible. I started reading the
book with full of doubts. After four years of struggle with this book, I came
into conviction that the God of the Bible is the only true God. I surrendered
myself into Christ’s Lordship in 1991. Since then, I am actively serving into the
mission of Christ, being committed to serving people in needs through church,
pastoral care, disaster-response, mass media and so on. I am much more focused
into education both in theology and secular-practical academic trainings for
deserving young people, preferably who are Christians. Besides education, now
am also fully oriented to religious liberty and Politics. For me, being
involved into the politics is more than doing a public leadership, but it is a
new mission sector of influence and serve. I call it ‘Politics as Mission’
(#PaM: my hashtag as appears in social media platforms).

In
the autumn of 2018, I had an opportunity to visit two of the United Sates’
colleges; Wheaton College in Illinois and North Park University in Chicago. I
was given chance to share about Politics as Mission (#PaM) as to be the most
considered mission field. I believe, the Church must not go into political
ground and stretch herself into party-politics, rather the pulpit must stay
away from the ‘dirty political plots’, but church should not also stay
insensitive of the worst development that politics is leading. This is becoming
the most stubborn, filthiest and oppressive to all religiosity. The ethics and
justice, peace and integral prosperity has been blown off as nothing and unjust
violations and terrorism are being accepted as normal. Indeed, the most
unreached peoples are here at our physical reaches, so closed and influencing us
all times for nothing than the spirit of darkness.  Thus, I invite you, let us stand together to
contribute the best for the most unreached mission fields, obviously the
politics and government, and everything being influenced by it, the education,
mass media, market and even the judiciary systems. Because of its hardhearted characters,
the politics has become the most difficult sector to reach. the Evangelical
Christians must rethink, where we have lost our passion for sharing the good
news to the needy ones, offering an act of benevolence to the poor and needy,
and discipling them who surrender their lives to the Lord.

You
are aware of the fact that the most growing number of populations in the
Western world falls among those who are deserting Christianity. Many countries formerly
known as Christendom are getting away from the religion! Many Christian homes
are now full of nonreligious people. Many church buildings are now no more the
worship centers as they were before. The Christendom is losing Christ from
every spare of society. Our country today experiencing the great famine of
ethically upright and God-loving leaders. God’s most beautiful Creation, the
earth has become the challenging place to live for a genuine Christ’s follower,
there is no ethical standard maintained in marketplaces, in workplaces, and in
some extent even in the Church. We may all agree that no good is being done in
the world, everything is getting worst indeed. Yet, we must accept as true that
once we correct the nature, culture or character of politics, and realign the
ethical leadership efforts, God-fearing, self-giving and committed to serve
people into the political leadership, rest will be corrected quickly as
possible. Thus, I am passionate to bring into dialogue and build the morale up
of those who are stepping in the field. Therefore, shall not we take initiative,
a leap of faith and start the value-based political leadership in our place?

For
me, we are working in good pace in the political endeavor, which we call ‘Politics
as Mission.’ This will invite you to interact with the people around and search
the ways on how being involved in the politics would really contribute
towards the transformation of a country. Honestly, we are not supposed to engage
in this field for any other gain but to contribute towards God’s mission as
we say, and to initiate for the establishment of democratic norms and
transformation through welfare efforts and integral development.

The
reason I am sharing this concern is to ask for your favor on this movement, so
we together could make it a global spectrum. Let our small efforts inspire the ‘Christian’
political actors that they may be encouraged, trained, coached or mentored.
Hoping that this idea can be explored further, I am looking for genuine
Christ-loving political leaders to stand with. Are you the one? Or do you know
someone in your reach who can be a co-laborer to us? Let us be united,
contribute what we together could take the lead, so we would have the success
stories to tell the world that we are getting into fulfillments of the Creation
Mandate of God that Man and woman should subdue, domain and rule over the
creation (Gen 1:28).

I
sensed strong calling to move into politics so could contribute ethics and
values into this arena. For my conviction, it starts from the very first desire
of the Creator God for people. He expressed that desire through our first
parents, Adam and Eve. After creating them as couple, He blessed them and said,
“Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it”
(Genesis 1:28). God mandated them (the humanity, the crown of His creation)
to ‘rule over everything!’ My observation is that us, the church should be
subduing and ruling over everything as the legacy bearers of the first human
couple.

Yet
need to be clear that ‘ruling over something’ is not what we see in the worldly
human affairs. We should admit that Jesus’ model to subdue and rule is not correctly
understood and exercised by His followers. Do not take me wrong, but I am more
than convinced that I am not trying to endorse the nowadays politics as it
should go. But Jesus’ model to rule and subdue must be demonstrated by every
committed follower of Him through their lifestyle; their prayer, love,
humility, forgiveness, benevolence and or the Christ-like characters. I firmly
believe that once this lifestyle, commitment to the mandate of God into family,
business and politics, His dream will come true. I also believe that we, as
committed Christians only have that ‘blessing’ (ordination) to subdue and rule,
God has not given that to anyone else. 

I
have recently accomplished a post-graduate study in ‘Christian Integral
Mission’ looking into this mandate and tried to compare ‘Mission’ with
‘Development.’ I have learned something that even the developed countries in
some ways or others, were all founded on the ethics, values and leadership
integrity. They flourished not because of human efforts, knowledge and
invention of technology alone, but because of God’s ‘blessing’. Now, what
happened to the so-called Christendom today? In my firm opinion, we need a power
or authority to rule over, and the source of that power comes from three
different domains: Ethics, Economics and Politics. We must acknowledge that the
Western Christendom is failing away because the ethics or morality (having a sense
of omnipresence God now over us) is totally deserted. Yes, the ethics we are
talking is now restricted even from the public affairs, and having absence of
ethics, the economics and political powers married together. What we see now
that they are producing their unholy upsprings – crime and corruption, tyranny
and terrorism, filthiness and fallenness we encounter everywhere!

Let
me put it this way, I am burdened to try bringing back the ethics – the
morality back into politics and business. If God-fearing leaders take hold into
economics and politics, I believe that God-given journey of humanity on this
earthly life will go perfectly, and the journey from jungle (Garden of Eden) to
an overwhelmingly prospered city (Jerusalem) will go so well. 

I
am also serving into education. Have same passion to work on. I wish one day
all committed Christians will take the mandate back, so I am trying to do
something small in this small country. I am raising young like-mined committed
Christians to rally with me, start with the demonstration of lifestyle as
mentioned above, and take an ethical leadership wherever they are given a
space. I am praying for an avenue where I would have time to sit with some
learned fellows who would help designing this thesis into a curriculum for Christian
Universities where political studies is taught. Besides this, if we could
come up with a plan to establish network among the Christians into politics
from all over the earth and have a new paradigm shift in the mission that our
attempt would contribute to the vision of God that then ‘every knee shall bow
and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is the Lord!