I would like everyone who is involved with Liberation Center Liberia to understand what our program is.
Our number one and only message to the addict is Jesus Christ. Only Jesus can break the chains of sin and addiction in their lives.
Our first priority is saving souls from hell by having them repent of their sins, confess Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior and being reborn and then having them baptized and filled with Holy Spirit.
As the Great Commission, we as disciples are to go into all nations and make disciples of Jesus Christ, baptizing them and teaching them as the Lord commissioned us to do.
Our nation just happens to be the Zogo Nation and the Disadvantaged Youth & Drug Addicted Nation.
One of the benefits of being a true disciple of Jesus Christ is that the addiction will be destroyed in your soul so know you can focus on your purpose in God and doing the work He has called you to do. A disciple must also go and make disciples of nations.
We are a discipleship program, Disciples of Jesus Christ. That is our number one priority. We are not a drug program. To the world, we are a drug program but to Jesus we are being obedient to His command to make disciples of nations. The reason why we are involved with helping people be delivered from drugs is because our Disciples in Training happen to be addicted to drugs so we must address that issue first and move it out of the way and allow Jesus to destroy it in the person so then they can be effectively discipled. We know the only true way this can be done is for the addict to surrender their lives to Jesus Christ, repent of their sins and the follow Him.
DISCIPLES OF JESUS CHRIST
When I was hopelessly addicted to drugs, I begged Jesus to save me and that I hated myself for being a drug addict. I told Jesus that if He saved me, I would serve Him the rest of the days of my life.
I did not know it at the time, but I know it now. What I was saying to Jesus is that I would be His Disciple and Ambassador the rest of the days and my life.
2 Corinthians 5:17-21 ~ Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. Now all things are of God, who has reconciled us to Himself through Jesus Christ, and has given us the ministry of reconciliation, that is, that God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself, not imputing their trespasses to them, and has committed to us the word of reconciliation. Now then, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were pleading through us: we implore you on Christ’s behalf, be reconciled to God. For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
This is what I am called to do every day of my life. This is the deal that I made with Jesus when I laid on the prison chapel floor and asked him to save me.
I traded my old addicted, selfish life of sadness, loneliness, hurt and devastation in for a new life as His servant, as His disciple, as His ambassador; showing the world who Jesus is through me.
The word ambassador originates from the Latin word “abacus” which means servant. So, when I told Jesus that if he saved me, I would serve him the rest of the days of my life, I was telling him that I would be his ambassador from that day forward. And that is what I am.
We are making Disciples and Ambassadors of Jesus Christ who have been delivered from sin and drug addiction. We are training up an Army of Soldiers for Christ. We are a Boot Camp for Christ equipping the Saints to fight for the souls of all those who are lost and who are on a path to hell and we are here to show them the Better Way which is Jesus Christ and the way to everlasting life in Heaven with God.
WE ARE A DISCIPLESHIP PROGRAM FIRST AND FOREMOST. OUR END GOAL IS ONE: TO MAKE DISCIPLES FOR JESUS CHRIST TO BE ABLE TO USE FOR HIS PURPOSE AND WILL!
My point is, that our main goal is not ending drug addiction. Our main goal is Salvation through Jesus Christ alone and Discipleship Training.
Remember This One Thing! Being delivered from drugs is just a benefit of Salvation and Discipleship. Jesus wants Disciples, not just people who don’t do drugs anymore!
