User:Bennymathews

Brother Bennie is the CEO of Alpha Ministries and serves as the Vice President of Leadership Development for Alpha IMPACT Church Planter Training.

Brother Bennie followed in the footsteps of his northern Indian church planter parents when he resigned from the medical field in 1994 to join in the work of Alpha Ministries. He attended Liberty Bible Institute and experienced life-changing leadership and mentoring under Dr. Harold L. Willmington.

Alpha Ministries specializes in working in regions where no churches exist. Alpha mobilizes, trains, and sends native church planters (evangelists & pastors) across North India, Nepal, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, and West Africa. They support over 500 native pastors, 1000 churches, and 700 disadvantaged children in 8 needy and strategic nations in Asia and West Africa. The goal of Alpha Ministries is to train 100,000 leaders to plant 100,000 churches in Asia & West Africa by 2020.

Benny spends much of his time in South Asian countries and West Africa, motivating, mobilizing, and supporting the national evangelists and pastors to reach the least-reached for Jesus Christ. Whether it is mentoring and serving in his local church or on the mission field, God has blessed and empowered Benny with the ability to encourage others and to nurture the belief in God's endless possibilities. Brother Bennie and his wife Lina were married in 1990. They have three children, Faith-Hannah, Ben-Israel and Joy-Ruth. They currently live in Lynchburg, Virginia.

Church Discipline This policy was written by the Elders of Alpha Bible Church and it may be adapted for use in all ABC Affiliated local church.

Church discipline is plainly taught in the Scriptures. It is one of the primary means that the Lord has ordained for bringing about repentance and restoration in the lives of His erring children. When practiced according to Scripture, church discipline is an act of obedience that demonstrates our love for the Lord and our desire to have fellowship with Him by walking in the light of his truth1. Biblical church discipline also serves as a deterrent to sin2; preserves the unity3, purity4, and reputation5 of Christ's church; and helps to clear the conscience6 and reputation7 of the repenting member. In practicing church discipline, each member of a church assumes the responsibility of lovingly watching over8 the other members of the church for the purpose of encouraging holiness9 and discouraging disorderly behavior in each member10 and in the church as a whole11; and each member consents to being so watched over12. When other Biblical measures prove ineffective13, those members of the church who refuse to repent of sin and submit to the church14 will be expelled from the church15 and turned over to Satan16. When the disciplined member gives sufficient evidence of genuine repentance, the church is to heartily express forgiveness and receive the offender into fellowship again17. Each member of Alpha Ministries and its churches agrees to submit to and participate in the discipline of the church. Addenda: Should a member become guilty of sin that the church deems scandalous, the church may excommunicate him immediately and without prior implementation of less drastic means of discipline, such as private expostulation or public rebuke. 1 Corinthians 5 records the command to immediately withdraw fellowship from a man who was guilty of scandalous sin. See also Galatians 2:11-16.