A Brief History of Jalan Suci (The Holy Way in Indonesia)
A support group was established in 1964, but the history of
The Holy Way in Indonesia began in February 1965, when the Rev.
Edwin Stube and family arrived in Semarang (Central Java). He
believed that the Lord wanted to reveal new things about
evangelism, worship, training, and ministry, and tried to get the
elders and others in the church in Semarang to gather together for
fellowship in the Spirit. But they had all become occupied, with
various traditional projects and seemed not to have any interest
in the work of the Holy Spirit. A report on training programs was
submitted, and ignored.
In June of 1966 the Stube family all moved to
Nongkodjadjar, a small village in the mountains of East Java. Here
the Holy Spirit was gloriously poured out, and God did a sovereign
work in the hearts of a number of young people.
Almost immediately these young people were sent out to to
share what they had received. They went to the Celebes and
encountered all sorts of experiences. The boys had come to feel a
tremendous need to dig deeply into the Bible to find answers to
their questions and direction for the future. God seems to feel
that His Word has to be put into practice.
Since then times of travel and experiences of all kinds
were always alternated with periods of quietly sitting at God’s
feet at home to learn. This study was never divorced from
practice. What was learnt in the morning study period was usually
put into practice in house-meetings and other opportunities in the
afternoons. Two days a week were spent sharing God in the
villages.
The vision of a training center was confirmed many times,
once in 1968, through a vision that Rochani received, and many
times through prophecy, by people who had no idea of the plans and
thoughts that were in our minds. The first Bible Training Centre
was established in Lawang, East Java, Indonesia, was opened in
1971. It was a radical, non-formal approach to training young
people for ministry in the present age. The program provided new
students with grounding in the fundamentals of the Bible,
experience of evangelism; and also the reality of life and
ministry in the Body of Christ.
Actually this training approach is as old as Christianity
itself, but it is always a challenge that is shockingly new. When
you read the New Testament you notice that Jesus never scheduled a
class or drew up a curriculum. He just gathered together a little
group of young men. He said, "Follow Me." They saw His miracles,
and His way of approaching all sorts of people. They observed His
teaching to the crowds, His silencing of the Pharisees, His loving
ministry of help to the sick and to repentant sinners.
Jesus' training of the disciples could not be separated
from His fellowship with them. They ate and slept and worked
together. The disciples learned by associating with Him,
experiencing His love, observing His life-style, sharing in the
secrets of His heart.
It is hard to replicate this way of learning, even though
it is clearly successful. It is even harder to keep traditional
learning structures from creeping back in. This work describes the
heritage and foundation of The Holy Way.
In 1976, the Stube's left the “The Holy Way” in the hands
of the young Indonesian people they had trained. Over these
decades, Apostolic ministry teams have been sent to many parts of
Indonesia and beyond. Many Training Centres and Worship
Centres have been established. God is faithful, and the revealing
work of prayer, worship, training and evangelism continues to move
on, and we pray that God will continue to work in power.
PDF's, Bahasa Indonesian
GPI Di Indonesia Tatum 1965-2002
Kalender - 2019, 2015 (Jason Sentuf)
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PDF's in English
What we Believe (a summary)
Terminabuan (Evangelism in Irian, 1986)
Revival in Papua (Jason Sentuf)
West Papua History (1987)
Central Kalimamtan (Report 2013)
Link with a Mission team from Australia
"A highway shall be there and it shall be called the Holy
Way" Isaiah 35:8
Christian life and ministry never rises above the
level of our worship. Spiritual life and ministry begins, and is
carried out in the presence of God.
Jalan Suci is dedicated to worship in the Holy of
Holies. This invariably leads to powerful ministry in the Spirit.
Jalan Suci encourages people to gather around Jesus
like His first set of disciples, enjoying His fellowship, learning
His ways, being a part of the mighty move of God that is happening
worldwide in preparation for His coming. We worship in the Spirit
with the gifts of the Spirit. Often we meet God in the silence of
eternity; other times we join with the high praises of the angels
around His throne. We allow Jesus to disciple us. He leads us out
into a variety of ministry where we see what He is doing and learn
to take part.
For those that have heard God’s call to life, training, and
ministry with us, we would like to present some helpful guidelines
that express the beat of our heart and purpose for out being.
Jesus chose another way to teach his followers. The Holy Way
was built on the search to understand this other way, and this
Training Center is part of that result. So what method did Jesus
use?
Jesus collected a little group and started moving. They saw His
miracles and His way of approaching all sorts of people. They
observed His teaching to the crowds, His silencing of the Pharisees,
His loving ministry of help to the sick and to repentant sinners.
Jesus' training of the disciples could not be separated from His
fellowship with them. They ate and slept and worked together. The
disciples learned by associating with Him, experiencing His love,
observing His life-style and ministry', sharing in the secrets of
His heart. This was theology understood through truth and
relationship.
After Pentecost, the apostles must have applied these same methods
to the training of new converts in Jerusalem as the people
"continued steadfastly in the apostles' teaching and fellowship, the
breaking of bread, and prayers." Paul used the same method for
training Timothy, Titus, Luke, and the others who travelled with
Him.
This method of training is:
1. Non-formal. Jesus never scheduled a class or
drew up a curriculum. He lived a life with His disciples. They
learned on-the-job (3 years of purpose driven learning where the
direct understanding and application [i.e. “the authority”] of what
they learnt was a major goal).
2. Fellowship-based. In regard to Jesus' training
of His disciples, the training cannot be divorced from fellowship.
The training method was the fellowship (The close fellowship teaches
us humility and how live for the Kingdom, not our own ideas).
3. Learning by doing. Jesus plunged His disciples
immediately into the experience of the ministry. Then as they had
time, they sat down and talked over what they had experienced.
Theory was never divorced from practice. The Christian life and
ministry is something we do, not just take notes on.
4. Living in the Spirit. Jesus' ministry was
carried on in the power and guidance of the Holy Spirit. It is
therefore a supernatural ministry. He said: "I do not say my own
words, but those of Him who sent me. The works I do are not mine but
His." On His Ascension Day Jesus said: "Wait until you receive power
from on high ... and you shall be My witness." As His disciples we
need to learn to live and minister in the Spirit.
Our objective is to adapt and apply these principles in every
possible cultural setting, on the theory that Jesus' methods were
deliberately chosen and therefore can be most effective. The Holy
Way Mission has applied these principles in several very different
cultural settings in Indonesia for more than 40 years with
outstanding results (Therefore there is no reason why they should
not work equally well in other cultures. I also note that they were
very successful in the middle-east some 2,000 years ago, so not much
has changed).
This training is aimed at preparing people for New Testament type
ministry. We are training apostles, prophets, evangelists, pastors,
teachers, etc. (Ephesians 4:11-16, 1 Corinthians 12:28).
It was never God's intention that the ministry should be totally in
the hands of a few professional clergy. The Body is not one member,
but many (1 Corinthians 12:12-13). It is built up and matures
through the working together of all the members (Ephesians 4:11-16).
Therefore, we believe that we need to be training lay members of
churches for their proper function in the Body of Christ. New
Testament ministries will be trained by New Testament methods.
Such a training program might take this form:
1. A community. A small group of people will be
living together in some kind of community relationship, praying,
studying, and working together.
2. Priorities. First priority would be personal
devotional life; second, worship together in Spirit; third, learning
to hear and obey the Lord's voice; fourth, Bible study and fifth,
ministry.
3. Bible centered. The patterns of life and
ministry will be learned by examining in detail the biblical records
and immediately putting them into practice.
4. Practical. Every effort will be made to
duplicate the radical effectiveness of supernatural New Testament
type ministry, realizing that this is going to require some radical
adjustment in our own personal lives, our view point, our ways of
doing things, our priorities. In short the Cross will be applied to
our personal and corporate lives, so that the Resurrection power of
Jesus may be made manifest in the ministry.
Note: The PDF of this article "Holy Way Training Guidelines" is in
the Menu below.
Written by Rev. Edwin Stube
Edited by Ps. Spencer Scrutton.
PDF's, Bahasa Indonesian
Didalam Roh (In the Spirit)
Early Training Brochure (Circa 1988)
Training Form-Brochure (2016)
Training Form-Brochure (2018)
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PDF's in English
1980 L.B.T.C. Training Brochure
Holy Way Training Guidelines (Brief Guidelines - Rev. Edwin B. Stube)
An Early Training Vision (8 page Vision/ Concept from 1971)
In 1968, The Holy Way began its ministry of the
written word with the magazine, API MENYALA ("A Blazing Fire" -
started by Gwan An). The circulation grew to more than 7,000 and
was mailed to all the principal islands of Indonesia. It was read,
passed around, and found its way to places we could not go,
providing people in remote areas with deeper Christian teaching.
The book ministry began in the early 1970's. The aim was
and still is to stress unity, evangelism, the work of the Spirit,
sanctification, New Testament order, and generally encourage
Christian maturity and teaching for all believers.
PDF versions all books are available on line from the below
links. Kindle and Epub books are available for most.
PDF's in Indonesian
Diubah Menjadi Serupa (Being Transformed - by Jason)
Apa yang Allah Lakukan Diantara Umat Yahudi Mesianik
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PDF's in English
Unity & The Holy Way (Ps Spencer Scrutton)
A Prophetic Company (1997 - Teaching, by Edwin Stube)
What We Believe (Brief Summary of Holy Way Teaching)
Bible Camp Teaching (1972 - At Prophetic Teaching)
Gifts & Ministries of the Holy Spirit (Brief Summary)
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