Missions Blog

So this weekend was HGM’s Nomads Conference. I don’t know if I am totally ready to talk all about what the Lord was doing in my heart and the heart’s of students yet, but I would like to share a couple of things.

The Day My god Died is a movie about little girls kidnapped in Nepal and smuggled across the border to India and forced into prostitution. These girls are as young as 7! In view of such things as this and Invisible Children, how soberly should we live in this present age?!? Basically be a Missionary.

So this weekend is Nomads. If you know nothing about it, you should know this, you should go! I am totally pumped. 3 days with Jesus 4 the world. It is like the highlight of my year. I love how the Lord has used the conferences like this to totally change the lives of my friends and I. Isn’t also exciting that Jesus rose from the dead and He is coming back? I am most excited about spending some quality time worshipping the Lord with a large group of like minded believers. I have missed it.

Some more personal stuff. I was listening to my friends from Echoing Clarey and their song “Down Town”. It is totally stirring my heart.

Random thought from me:

Atleast with all the trouble in the world we know that Jesus wins in the end.

Here and Here for information on what I am talking about. Please read them.

In an effort to get an on the field decision overturned, several SBC missionaries appealed to the BoT about church planting problems. After hearing their appeal, rather than helping them, the Board began working on their removal hearings. Their crime? Daring to partner with some great commission christian missionaries, some of whom are from the Christian Missionary Alliance, to reach a previously unreached people group. The CMA is the denominational home of such radical heretics as Ravi Zacharias, Jim Cymbala and A.W. Tozer. I guess when faced with cooperating with another missions agency or allowing people to perish and go to hell, the latter seems to be more acceptable.

[satire]When asked to comment one trustee replied “with all the controversy going on right now, the last thing I’m worried about is missions.” When reminded that he was on the BoT for the IMB he responded “the IMB is a missions agency? What’s that?”[/satire]

The following was written by someone else. C.T. Studd is one of my heroes.

A tract written by an atheist dramatically changed the life of C.T. Studd, (1860-1931)and his perspective of the short time we have on this earth. It seemed to help him turn from lukewarm Christianity to being on fire for God. After reading the tract, he walked away from great financial wealth and being one of the greatest athletes in England’s history, to become a missionary in China and Africa. What did the tract say?

It said “did I firmly believe, as millions say they do, that the knowledge and practice of religion in this life influences destiny in another, religion would mean to me everything. I would cast away all earthly enjoyments as dross, earthly cares as Follies, and earthly thoughts and feelings as vanity. Religion would be my first waking thought, and my last image before sleep sank me into unconsciousness. I should labor in its cause alone. I would take thought for the tomorrow of eternity alone. I would esteem one soul gained for heaven worth a life of suffering. Earthly consequences should never stay my hand, nor seal my lips. Earth, its joys and its griefs, would occupy no moment of my thoughts. I would strive to look upon eternity alone, and on the immortal souls around me, soon to be everlastingly happy or everlastingly miserable. I would go forth to the world and preach it in season and out of season and my text would be, “what shall it profit a man if he gain the whole world and lose his own soul?”

Mr. Studd said “I at once saw that this was truly consistent Christian life. When I looked back upon my own life I saw how inconsistent it had been. I therefore determined that from that time forth my life should be consistent, and I set myself to know what was God’s will for me. But this time I determined not to consult with flesh and blood, but just waiting until God should show me.”

The important question now is what does the tract say to you and me?

We in our local part of God’s world wide church have a lot further to go as individuals to be consistent like we should be, according to the high calling we have in Christ Jesus. We want to be on-fire Christians, to do our part in the great commision of proclaiming the Gospel of Christ to the world and provoking other Christians to do likewise!

History says C.T. Studd lived his motto “I want to run a Rescue Shop - within a yard of hell.”

So my latest entries don’t portray my true feelings towards the problems in the IMB. I am sad and a little mad at what is taking place. I theologically disagree with the new standards as unbiblical. I disagree as a Southern Baptist. And it has also gotten personal with it affecting the lives of my friends. Worst of all, it makes me mad because I believe that more people will go to hell over these decisions. Qualified people who want to seek and save the unreached will be turned back, slowed down, and discouraged from going overseas. Those little boys in the picture on the top of this blog are ones I met while traveling in their country. They and their people need Jesus badly. All the generations of their people before them have perished without the knowledge of our glorious Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. We need to be speeding up in our efforts to get them the good news, not making new restrictions to keep people from going. I will always be against anything that I believe hurts the people that we should really be concerned about. This is about them and not about how we feel on theological and denominational issues. It would be a shame if their generation perishes as well because we who have had the good news for hundreds of years cannot cooperate well enough to get them laborers to tell them of the One that died for them. Do my previous posts totally disqualify me from saying this sincerely? If so, I will remove them and repent.