Rector of CDM Bible College, Apostle J.F.K Mensah is convinced that the task of discipling nations which has been going on for 2,015 years can be completed – in a generation.

He made the comment during the 4^th graduation ceremony of the College Sunday for a batch of 14 graduates after spending nearly a two-year modular course at the Christ-like Disciple-making Movement (CDM).

Fourteen disciples as part of a movement for a formidable worldwide agenda? You have got to be kidding me, you could say.

You can call Apostle JKF Mensah names. But he made a compelling argument for his conviction.

Apostle JFK Mensah

At least the Wright brothers were very sane in their belief that humans can “fly like birds”.

American President, John F Kennedy was certainly sound when he vowed to jet humans off to the moon as outrageous as it seemed.

So why should any Christian find Jesus’ great charge in Matthew 28:18-20 to “Go into the world and make disciples of all nations” such an unfinishable assignment?

If we couldn’t finish it, He certainly wouldn’t have said it, Apostle JFK and his teachers kept hammering during the Bible course. "We all tend to be narrow-minded when working for God" he said and called on Christians to take every command of Jesus Christ seriously.

The key to this great commission is simply a formula, his lecturers taught in class. There is a formula for building planes, there is a formula for building spacecrafts.

There is a formula for the great commission. It is discipling the world in bits, he pointed out.

In two’s and three’s and getting the new disciples to do the same, the world can be reached within a generation.

A Christian won’t become like Christ because he sat in church, he said. No, it is a very deliberate methodology of getting Jesus Christ into a new body.

The Rector explained that the reason why Christians in Ghana effect no change is because we stopped at being saved.

We were to continue by becoming like Christ. And as we did so, a beautiful life will attract others triggering an unbreakable chain of change until the last person is converted.

In business, this is called network marketing. But somehow for Christians it is called impossible. An awful conclusion for a blood-bought race called Christians.

So off we go, trying to make God into our own disciple. He must follow us to solve our debt problem, our marriage problem, our promotion problem otherwise he is not God.

No wonder the faith of many are shipwrecked because the foundation has always been shaky.

A whole prosperity industry has boomed. The verse ‘seek ye first the Kingdom of God’ has been brushed aside like that dog which was hit off with the formidable force of moving metal on the N1 Highway.

As the dead dog splits open and wasting away by the side of the road that tragic night so does that verse waste away in scriptures.

“People are searching for eternal life but they are being taught how to prosper” the man of God lamented in his speech last Sunday during the 4^th graduation ceremony held at the college’s campus near Ayi-Mensah.

“The Bible is getting lost in our bible colleges and schools” because administrators want to run course that fetch money. How can teaching a degree in Theology pay the bills, you would wonder?.

For that answer, you would need to visit the CDM Bible College at Ayi-Mensah. It is a parcel of land whipped out of a pretty bushy surrounding.

But the bushes are not noisy neighbours. So the perfect setting is created for serious teaching.

The lady who gave the vote of thanks choked back the tears as she remembered God’s faithfulness in putting up the storey-building.

The registrar, a battle-tested evangelist Rev. G.H.K Apreku knelt down in his white attire as he contemplated the fruit of an idea hatched about four years ago.

The storey building receives formidable donor support from people so moved by the vision of Apostle JFK Mensah that they beg not to be mentioned as contributors.

“If I had to work to put up this building, I would never have been able to do it” he told some fascinated students.

The marked difference about the CDM Bible College is that the teachers communicate a rare kind of life.

Julius Hagan, Jethro, Louis Tawan, Moses Mensah, Kofi Osew, Ibrahim Baidoo are youthful Christian lecturers who challenged students' conventional idea of who a Christian is.

One of them had read the entire Bible 10 times. There was no trace of pride in their language or mannerisms. "Knowledge puffs up" Kofi Osew stressed.

I asked him why a powerful conviction is not popular among Christian folks and why CDM Bible College is not pushing its message through the mass media. The gentleman smiled and reminded me of Jesus' words in John 12:25.

"Anyone who loves their life will lose it, while anyone who hates their life in this world will keep it for eternal life".

The gospel of dying to self in order to become like Christ is not an attractive message, he said and Jesus didn't mean it to be attractive. He meant it to be obeyed.