This
Ministry formally started in June 1986 as a house fellowship while
the church took off by August 1987. It is a Ministry of hope based
on God's love that never ends. The Ministry was born out of love
and concern for many who are made to succumb to defeat and obscurity
simply because they missed the mark sometime in their lives.
The vision of Amazing Love was born out of the burden to reco-opt
soldiers of Christ, remobilize them and set them back on the race
and spur them on, until they reach the mark and obtain their prizes.
Amazing Love Ministries also reaches out to those who are spiritually
alienated from the kingdom of God. So we reach out to the down-trodden,
spiritual victims of man, and spiritually slumbering humanity
and seek to shove them up from their spiritual slumber and remind
them that God has not yet finished with them and that He loves
them.
This truth is borne out of the personal dealings of the Lord,
with the Pastor of Amazing Love Ministries - Bishop Amaechi Nwachukwu.
The world says once you miss the mark, you are a write-off, doomed,
a cast-away. However, it is gratifying that God in the Bible is
saying a different thing. The tragedy often is that we ourselves
neither want to hear God nor accept His pardon. Often, we join
in condemning ourselves. But in the Bible we find God saying to
backslidden Israel that no matter how far they have failed, He
God, was willing to fix them up; we find God telling the guilt-laden
woman, caught in adultery ".... neither do I condemn you,
go and sin no more". To the fault-finding Jews of His day,
Jesus would say, "I have not come to condemn the world, but
that the world through me might have life". This love is
not cheap. It cost God His only Son. But somehow the only time
we preach this message is when we are seeking to convert people
for the first time into Christianity. Thereafter, "they must
work out their salvation". They were saved by grace through
faith but they must live by works through struggles, we seem to
preach. If anyone needs to hear again and again, the sweet message
of grace, it is the Christian. And this is the message the Amazing
Love Ministries wishes to proclaim loud and clear.
We hope to achieve this objective through careful and humble study
of God's word. Through the word, we open ourselves to correction,
building up and stability unto maturity in the Lord.
Prayer is our cornerstone. As we watch unto prayer, we faithfully
claim the promises of our God in patient assurance that, He who
has promised is faithful and cannot lie. Through the Holy Spirit,
we act as facilitators in leading others especially Christians
to an awareness of God's undying love which enables us to function
as sons/daughters in love.
We also, through God's grace serve one another. In love we esteem
others better than we are. Respect of persons and interest in
their level of understanding of God are our watch-word.
The
love we speak of is the love of God to man, so rich, so full,
so deep. We can't live without it. Amazing Love is not an escape
from discipline or holiness, but an attempt to make sure that
while we keep the letters of the law, we do not neglect the spirit
of the law.
While
we tithe mint and vegetable, we do not omit the weightier matters
of the law, justice, love and faith. For all else falls to nothingness
when love is lacking. God is love. Thus, Evangelism is our main
objective.
To the runaway prophet who preferred death to serving God, He
still says, "I need you", "The word of God came
to Jonah a second time". The cowardly, betraying Peter is
offered a second chance in anticipation of his repentance. And
to the prodigal son who derailed into sin and wastefulness, there
is a happy welcome of love and fanfare awaiting him.
Our God is a God of second chance. Nay! of a million chances.
His steadfast love never ceases, His mercies never come to an
end. They are new every morning. Great, Oh! Lord, is Thy faithfulness.
If you and I are commanded by God to forgive an erring brother
from our heart, four hundred and ninety times a day, can the Lord
of all creation, the Father of truth and justice do any less?
Not at all. It is this realization that is the compelling thrust
of Amazing Love Ministries. A Ministry of hope built on the possibilities
of God's changing power..... Love never fails.
The Bible is our constitution.