SPECIFICITIES OF THE AWAKENING OR FIFOHAZANA WITHIN THE MALAGASY LUTHERAN CHURCH

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The Lutheran World Federation announces that the Malagasy Lutheran Church is the largest growing Lutheran Church in the world. There are around 3,000,000 Lutheran believers in Madagascar. This is mainly due to Fifohazana. It is said that there is a church that appears every month in Madagascar. This Fifohazana was founded by the Holy Spirit and this God who was led the Leaders says: “Raiamandreny” in Malagasy. They have been given a special vocation to preach the gospel and to perform signs and miracles by means of the Word of God, prayer, and deliverance. In addition, they were called by the Lord to share his message for individuals, which actually means a prophetic message. This is why they have been recognized by the Church organization as Spokespersons for the Lord. Then the Holy Spirit leads them to do the work of delivering people from idolatry, encourages them and leads them to become baptized as Christians. The Fifohazana has the Shepherds "Mpiandry" who are Christians convinced to exercise the ministry of preaching and bear witness to the kingdom of God. These shepherds and the Servants of God work together, to preach the Gospel in their area of activity, throughout the country of Madagascar and around the world, according to "Matthew 28: 19-20, Mark 16:15. The overall purpose of this specific Awakening is to bring about the deep relationship in Jesus. Epistemologically, ongoing work such as evangelization, exhortation, healing, charity, education, development can relate to various activities such as agriculture, animal husbandry, construction, crafts, family and household education, health maintenance, training. As the apostle Paul said: “There are various operations, but the same God who works all in all“ 1 Cor. 12/6 ”.

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