A Crusade Must Leave a Discipleship Path

The final appeal has been made. Hands are raised across the field, counsellors move through the crowd and testimonies begin to circulate before the sound system is dismantled. Organisers record attendance, decisions, healings and online reach. The gathering may have been spiritually significant, carefully organised and genuinely fruitful.

Yet the most important question now begins: what path remains for the person who responded? Who knows the new believer's name, receives the questions that emerge tomorrow, teaches Scripture, connects the person to a faithful congregation and walks alongside the slow work of becoming like Christ?

Pentecostal evangelism rightly expects encounter. We preach Christ crucified and risen, call people to repentance and faith, pray for the sick and believe that the Holy Spirit acts in the present. But encounter should not be treated as an event product. The book of Acts joins proclamation to baptism, teaching, fellowship, shared life, prayer, witness and accountable leadership.

A crusade becomes durable mission when the platform opens a discipleship path. The responsible measure is not only what happened in the meeting, but what truthful, relational and Spirit-dependent practices remain after it.

The Global Crusade with Kumuyi is scheduled for 26–30 August in Ota, Ogun State, Nigeria, under the theme “Total Transformation Through Christ.” Reports of the organisers' press conference describe cooperation among Deeper Christian Life Ministry and local chapters of the…