Baptists Committed to World Evangelism

I was reading in the Baptist Heritage the other day and came across this quote. For many today the argument is the new young and restless Reformed. The question historically was often the use of means or not in the ministry. The question in other words is do we invite people to Christ or simply wait on God to bring them. That has caused great tension for many years and even now among many! Tensions between Calvinistic and Arminian Baptists provoked schism when a later pastor, Alexander Hay, preached from the text, “God be merciful to us.” Hay’s thesis was that God uses the witness of redeemed persons to lead others to salvation, a concept not acceptable to Calvinistic church members.

There are only 10 days left to register for the Latin Bridge Retreat ’12 !  Make your plans today to be a part of this event. The sessions will focus on cross-cultural evangelism, the role of discipleship in leader training, and strategic church planting principles for the Latin American context.  All classes will be taught by experienced church planters. We are so glad God has given us the opportunity to have two of the best keynote speakers you could imagine.  Be sure to register today! Visit bcwe.org  to learn more about Latin American missions

There is a text which says, “Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shall be saved.” I believe on the Lord Jesus Christ; is it irrational to believe that I am saved? “He that believeth on the Son hath everlasting life,” saith Christ, in John’s Gospel. I believe on Christ; am I absurd in believing that I have eternal life? I find the apostle Paul speaking by the Holy Ghost, and saying, “There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus. Being justified by faith, we have peace with God.” If I know that my trust is fixed on Jesus only, and that I have faith in Him, were it not ten thousand times more absurd for me not to be at peace, than for me to be filled with joy unspeakable

Over the past weekend, we passed out about 5000 leaflets to the people who were in the city for Halloween.  Derry has one of the largest Halloween festivals in Europe, so it is a great opportunity to reach out. We print up the tract with the text below and went out on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday.  In about 3-4 hours, our church was able to get all 5000 passed out.  It was a great opportunity to share the gospel, involve many people from our church, and reach out to the lost. Please be in prayer for God to bless and bring forth fruit from this outreach.

Click on this link to go to the source and to see many more ideas about how to reach people with the gospel. I am very convicted as I read this article. I do not get out and see enough people. I am unable to meet new people

There is an article here that discusses how the congregations of the Church of England are aging and dying. It is a bleak reality that is staring them in the face. It is something that we should consider in many of our churches.

We are looking for help to get material into the hands of unreached people groups. We are talking about people that do not have access to the Internet or other means of getting material and help. Many have already heard the gospel or have interest in the gospel. They need help

I wish you could have seen and heard the excitement in the hearts of the people from our church today when we all got back to the church office after having passed out 4000 gospel leaflets in 1 hour. People from our church have been texting me all evening.  One of our teenagers made a video about the day on youtube.

Today was the opening of a new footbridge in our city, that crosses the Foyle River and unites the cityside with the waterside.  Thousands of people from all over the country and the world were in the city today to commemorate this momentous occasion.  It was fantastic to see the city coming together for this great event. A group of 14 people from our church met up at 3:00 PM to head out into the crowds

I just finished chatting with Keith Shumaker in Burkina Faso. God is working. He has a man that is translating the PDF, Voice for the Villages from English to French right now. From there we will translate into Moore and then other languages. Konate is volunteering and helping with some of the typing.