History of Shan Churches in Burma 1861-2001 - Khamkoo

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Analysis 210 doctrines. When I was baptized at the age of sixteen in 1963, I did not have much knowledge about Christian doctrine because I was not given lectures or lessons before baptism. I was baptized not because of Holy Spirit conviction but because of my parents who asked me to be baptized before I leave home to study at other town which was quite far away from my hometown. There is a procedure for baptism in Shan Baptist Church. First the candidate must put his request to the Church Council, then the Church Council will interview the candidate, give the approval and conduct baptism on Sunday during worship service and accept him as a member of the Church. Baptism use to take place in the Church once or twice a year only. One senior pastor said that normally they did not have baptism all year round. People want to be baptized at Easter or Christmas. Most of the candidates are from Christian parents. Very seldom there are new converts from other faith. In 1973 I organized a Bible Study Camp for seven days in MuSe with 33 young people participated. After the study all the young people requested water baptism. When we put our request to the Church Council for baptism, in the beginning they refused, but when the young people insisted by saying, “Do you know what’s going to happen to us tomorrow? What can stop us taking baptism in Christ?” Then the Church council held a special meeting and asked many questions to the youths. A Buddhist mother of a young girl persuaded her daughter not to take baptism by offering her a gold necklace. The girl reply, “I will not exchange Jesus Christ with the gold necklace.” She got approval from her parents. Another young girl was persuaded by her Buddhist mother not to take baptism by offering her a watch. But the girl replied, “I will not exchange my salvation with the watch.” She got the approval for baptism. There were tears of joy to see 33 youths taking water baptism together on Sunday. Mass baptism use to take place on special occasions such as World Communion Sunday, Easter Sunday, Christmas, Conferences and Celebration. 218 people baptized when Eastern Shan State Baptist Convention celebrated 65 th Eastern Shan State Baptist Mission Celebration in KanNaLone in 1968. 165 baptized in 1978 when Annual General Meeting of ESS Shan Baptist Association took place. 68 people baptized when Shan Bible Centenary Celebration was held in MuongYang in 1985. 273 people baptized in NamKham during Shan Bible Centenary Celebration in 1985. 58 people baptized in 1987, when silver jubilee of TaChiLeik Church was held in TaChiLeik. 168 baptized in KengTung when celebrating Eastern Shan State Baptist Mission Centenary in 2001. Why do people want to be baptized on such special occasion? Should we have more such occasion so that we may have more people baptized? Shan Churches seldom preach “repentance and baptism” and giving “altar call” after worship service. The sermons of Grace, Mercy and Blessings are the most common topics preached in the Church. Baptism is just like a “tradition” or “ritual” in some Churches. Parents use to ask their children to take water baptism when they reach certain age or when the children are about to leave home to other city or town. It is rare to see children coming to the pastor and ask for baptism because of their conviction, repentance and faith. Baptism is rather like traditional and ritual. Baptism is by emersion. The pastor use to give baptism in fishpond, river or lake when baptism is not taken in the Church where there’s a baptistery. They considered “water baptism” as “born again” even though there is no evidence of new life. They believe that once they are baptized they have got the salvation and they are qualified to go to heaven regardless of character and behavior after baptism. The salvation will never lost. Only ordained pastor is allowed to conduct water baptism and communion. There are 10,792 baptized members in Shan Churches all over Shan States in the year 2001. Acts 2:38 Peter replied, “Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.”
Analysis 211 Acts 8:36-38 As they traveled along the road, they came to some water and the eunuch said, “Look, here is water. Why shouldn't I be baptized ?” And he gave orders to stop the chariot. Then both Philip and the eunuch went down into the water and Philip baptized him. 11. Bazaar Preaching Past Rev. and Mrs. Cushing visited KengTung in January 1870 and spent eleven days there, preaching in the bazaar and giving out tracts. Rev. Case reported in 1885, “During the rains, besides teaching daily in the boys’ school, I did considerable preaching in bazaar to Shan coming in from neighboring villages to trade and I also visited and preached from house to house in some of the nearest villages.” 48 It was reported in 1893 by Dr. Kirkpatrick, “Our preachers are faithful in proclaiming the gospel message. We also hold meetings in other bazaar as much as we can. The meetings held each bazaar day, in a large zayat in the bazaar are well attended. Estimate the average attendance is nearly one thousand, many being traders and people from a distance which we reach in no other way. At the close of the rains we began regular services at Bwe Gyo, a large town five miles from the town on a river and also on the Bhamo cart road, where there is a large bazaar every fifth day. SaoPha has given us a piece of ground in the bazaar where we will build a large zayat for the preachers and Biblewomen. Every bazaar day they go and spend the day preaching and distributing tracts. They report many inquirers and some who profess conversion.” 49 Dr. Henderson built a zayat in the bazaar in MuongNai at a cost of rupees 160, money raised in the Church collections and his own contributions. The attendance at the bazaar meetings has always been good, seldom if ever below 100, with an average attendance of about 200. 50 Dr. Henderson reported in 1896, “The general outlook of the field is very encouraging. Our bazaar congregations are only about one-fourth or one-fifth as large as at first but this is not surprising. It is due to two causes; first the novelty has worn off and their curiosity is largely satisfied; second our services are entirely carried on in broken Shan a fact that we realize more and more as we learn enough of the language to know the mistakes.” and in TaungGyi, 1914, “A special feature of his work has been the preaching in the public bazaar.” Dr. Gibbens reported in 1915, “a preaching zayat at the five-day bazaar and opportunity to preach to crowds and to dispense tracts and medicines in MuongNai.” Bazaar is a place for trading, buying, selling goods and meeting people from different villages and towns especially at fifth-day-bazaar. All Shan mission fields had bazaar preaching. Almost all missionaries preached and distributed tracts in bazaar. They were so courageous to speak Shan language in the bazaar and un-ashamedly distributing the tracts to the people. How noisy it would be in bazaar? How loud they had to shout without loudspeaker? How embarrassing to preach in bazaar in Shan language? They did it. They were not ashamed of the gospel. They put up zayat (temporary shelter) in bazaar for their preaching and distribution work. It was reported that the average attendance was nearly one thousand. We did not see any of missionaries was abused, stoned or beaten up for preaching gospel in bazaar but they had more and more inquirers. They got the result. I can recall, in 1960, a man, his name was Lao San from NamKham, used to preach the gospel in the bazaar using the illustrated pictures, standing on a chair, shouting to the audience. He got many people stopping and listening to him. He was the last person to do bazaar preaching in Shan missions. 48 71st Annual Report, 1885, American Baptist Missionary Union 49 79th Annual Report, 1893, American Baptist Missionary Union, report from Rev. Dr. M.B. Kirkpatrick, M.D., Mrs. Kirkpatrick 50 80th Annual Report, 1894, American Baptist Missionary Union
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I HISTORY OF SHAN CHURCHES IN BURMA
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Index 401 INDEX 21st Century…69,
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Index 405 NamKham……46, 47, 48,
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Index 407 TaChiLeik……68, 69, 74
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