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Time to repent, focus on younger leaders & family discipleship to avert church decline, Asian leaders say

Time to repent, focus on younger leaders & family discipleship to avert church decline, Asian leaders say

“Everything that is not growing will slowly decay,” says Dr Bambang Budijanto, General Secretary of the Asia Evangelical Alliance (AEA), as he highlights the challenges facing the Church in Asia today. Following AEA’s 11th General Assembly in Mongolia, Budijanto and other Asian leaders have now published their reflections on what they see as the only way forward: repentance, focusing on discipleship within families and truly empowering younger leaders to participate in God’s mission.

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