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    Da Timothy Code
    Da Timothy Code
    Da Timothy Code
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    Da Timothy Code

    By Charles Stephens

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    The five main chapters are about East Africa, North Africa, West Africa, Central Africa and South Africa, in that order. The oldest bio's are from East Africa (e.g. Ethiopia, Nubia). Then from Egypt across to the Berbers (e.g. St Augustine was of Berber descent). Then to the Canary Islands and down/around the West Africa coast to Nigeria. Then the Bakongo kingdom and around to Mozambique and up the Zambezi into deep central Africa. Then finally South Africa, starting at the Cape and workingeast and north from there. It ends up in current events of 2021, with some leaders who are in the news. So it is very much a book of African hagiography. Short biographical sketches - some shorter than others, just honourable mention. But these roll out in a way that makes for a coherent narrative of church history all around the continent. The book also chases a theme, which is the subtitle: "Shepherding the flock without fleecing the sheep". Basically it asks the question "who moved the goalposts?" because 90 percent of the bio's over a 2000-year period are about church leaders who sacrificed so much - even their lives. Then since 1950, pastors have become rich -owning airplanes and launching universities. This concern is not answered dogmatically, rather it is probed. The extraordinary contradiction is noted, and the implied questions explored. The baseline that is used to illuminate this contrast is I Timothy chapter 3 (which I call " Timothy Code", a book title that tries to resonate with The Da Vinci Code). This theme is presented and wrapped up in a coherent way that ties all the biographical
    sketches together. The structure is a collage - a mosaic. So that when you stand back and look at it, there is a message that makes all the pieces hang together.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMbokodo Publishers
    Release dateAug 12, 2021
    ISBN9798201834548
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      Da Timothy Code - Charles Stephens

      Charles Stephens

      DA Timothy code

      Shepherding the Flock without Fleecing the Sheep

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      Copyright © Charles Stephens (2021)

      The right of Charles Stephens to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by the author in accordance with section 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

      All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publishers.

      Any person who commits any unauthorised act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages.

      This is a book of research and advocacy. Names, characters, businesses, places, events, locales, and incidents are not products of the author’s imagination. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, or actual events is purely intentional.

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      Contents

      1. Preamble

      The Distinction between an Apostle and a Disciple

      Bishops, Deacons, Prophets, Pastors, Teacher and Healers

      Da Timothy Code

      Methodology

      2. East Africa

      The Falasha

      Ethiopia has a long-standing association with the Queen of Sheba. The thing is that when she came to Jerusalem to meet Solomon, around 1000 BC, she was coming from a Jewish colony in Sabaea roughly where Yemen is today.

      The Nubian Eunuch

      Prestor John?

      Frumentius

      The Rise of Islam

      The Mountains of the Moon

      The Martyrs of Uganda

      St Josephine Bakhita

      Archbishop Luwum

      Kenya’s Richest Pastors

      Simony

      3. North Africa

      The Holy Family

      St Mark

      Africans in the church of Antioch

      The Scillitan Martyrs

      Pope Victor I

      Perpetua and Felicitas

      Naming Africa

      Clement of Alexandria

      Tertullian

      Chaeremon and Ischyrion

      Origen

      Cyprian

      Maximilian of Numidia

      Mennas

      Peter of Alexandria

      Pachomius the Great

      Athanasius versus Arius

      St Augustine

      Cyril of Alexandria

      Deogratias

      Shenoute

      The Rise of Islam

      The Way Forward

      4.      West Africa

      Circumventing Islam

      Uninhabited Islands

      The Atlantic Slave Trade

      Joao Pinto

      Baltazar Barreira

      Indigenous Missionaries

      Dual Citizens

      Reverend Thomas Thompson

      The Cost of Discipleship

      Benson Idahosa

      Bishop David Oyedepo

      Enoch Adeboye

      Chris Oyakhilome

      T B Joshua

      Matthew Ashimolowo

      Lazarus Muoka

      Chris Okotie

      Cohabitating with Islam

      5.      Central Africa

      From Desert to Jungle

      Bakongo outreach

      Mbemba Nzinga

      Outreach into Angola

      Mussa Alebik

      The Mwene Mutapa

      David Livingstone

      The Comber family

      Heli Chatelain

      Dr Walter Strangway

      Uebert Angel

      Prophet Shepherd Bushiri

      Isaiah Brian Sovi

      Apostle Miz Mzwakhe Tancredi

      The Price of Discipleship

      6.      Southern Africa

      Krotoa

      The Hottentot Code

      George Schmidt

      Johannes Vanderkemp

      Ntsikana

      The Black Circuit

      Moffat

      Jager Afrikaner

      Dr John Philip

      Tiyo Soga

      Reformed Church Missionaries

      Subversive Subservience

      Rev. Theophelus Hingashikuka Hamutubangela

      Trevor Huddleson

      Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu

      Andries Tetane

      Ray McCauley

      Timothy Omotoso

      7.      Epilogue

      Re-thinking the criteria for sainthood?

      Prophets or Profits?

      Paradigm Lost

      8.      Recommended Reading

      1. Preamble

      The Distinction between an Apostle and a Disciple

      There is some overlap in the way these two terms are used, and thus some ambiguity. The simplest way to understand apostle is that this core of cadres was trained by Jesus himself. They knew him as a contemporary – the author and finisher of our faith.

      Whereas discipling is a function, just like preaching or prophesying. You don’t have to be born in the first century to be a disciple. You can join the movement in any century and become a disciple. This is almost synonymous with the term follower or adherent. But it is a bit stronger than the term believer, it takes some involvement or commitment to be a disciple.

      Yet people speak of both the twelve apostles and the twelve disciples without making any distinction. Perhaps because the term apostle came to be used much less, after the first generation of Christianity. Whereas discipling continued on unabated. Curiously, however, we still run into church leaders who call themselves apostles – twenty centuries later. Perhaps this is to say something spiritual about them?

      Bishops, Deacons, Prophets, Pastors, Teacher and Healers

      These functions sometimes involve spiritual gifting – like prophecy and faith-healing. Or relevant skills may be acquired like administration and accounting for Deacons. Sometimes the spiritual gifting may be mixed with technical expertise – like teaching.

      One teaching method is coaching. Another is mentoring. Paul started as Timothy’s coach and eventually changed his mode to mentorship. As a mentor to Timothy, he wrote down what can be regarded as a baseline for Christian leadership…

      Da Timothy Code

      I Timothy chapter 3: "Here is a trustworthy saying: Whoever aspires to be an overseer desires a noble task. ² Now the overseer is to be above reproach, faithful to his wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach, ³ not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money. ⁴ He must manage his own family well and see that his children obey him, and he must do so in a manner worthy of full respect. ⁵ (If anyone does not know how to manage his own family, how can he take care of God’s church?) ⁶ He must not be a recent convert, or he may become conceited and fall under the same judgment as the devil. ⁷ He must also have a good reputation with outsiders, so that he will not fall into disgrace and into the devil’s trap.

      ⁸ In the same way, deacons are to be worthy of respect, sincere, not indulging in much wine, and not pursuing dishonest gain. ⁹ They must keep hold of the deep truths of the faith with a clear conscience. ¹⁰ They must first be tested; and then if there is nothing against them, let them serve as deacons.

      ¹¹ In the same way, the women are to be worthy of respect, not malicious talkers but temperate and trustworthy in everything.

      ¹² A deacon must be faithful to his wife and must manage his children and his household well. ¹³ Those who have served well gain an excellent standing and great assurance in their faith in Christ Jesus."

      Methodology

      This book is divided into chapters on East Africa, North Africa, West Africa, Central Africa and South Africa. Within each chapter, the timeline moves from the oldest profile to the most recent. For the most part, then, the book moves forward through the centuries.

      The continent of Africa has many rivers, but five great rivers define it. The Nile has two tributaries, the Blue Nile out of East Africa and the White Nile from the great lakes of central Africa. It runs north through a swamp called the Sudd (hence the name Sudan) that is larger than England. Then its waters reconvene and it flows into Egypt, emptying at the delta into the Mediterranean Sea. The Niger river rises in West Africa and flows east then south, emptying at the delta into the Atlantic Ocean. The Congo river rises deep in central Africa and loops north then west into the Atlantic Ocean. The Zambezi river also rises in central Africa and flows south then east to the Indian Ocean. Finally the Orange river rises in the highlands south of Lesotho and flows right across the continent to the Atlantic ocean. Halfway across the continent, it is joined by the Vaal river, flowing down from the high veld to the north-east. So it seems fitting to adopt a structure of five regions to relate five very different narratives - in the same order that the five rivers are introduced above.

      This sequencing allows the author to tell the story of church history in a unique way. It is very impressionistic – moving from one biographical sketch to another through time. So it has a strong human-interest dimension, while rolling out the narrative of each region. It is composed of a series of thought-bursts, like beads on a string.

      The book is by no means comprehensive, one could easily fill a whole book on each of these five zones! In fact, many books have been written about single individuals like St Augustine or David Livingstone, who get a page at the most herein! These profiles were cherry-picked in order to show a flow or sequencing. But the story is not told as a narrative – it is told in a series of vignettes. But there is a trending, that is consistent throughout – until very recent decades.

      Tertullian said that the blood of martyrs is the seed of the church. The icons in this book – most of them just short biographical sketches

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