Baptists Committed to World Evangelism

One night, I was invited over to the home of a missionary that worked in the area where the national pastor I mentioned in the previous post lived. This missionary had a very bad reputation among the nationals. (his bad reputation had to do with how he treated the nationals) This missionary had a reputation that he didn’t want to preach, and he’d come down there as a mechanic but yet he’d like to take pictures of their churches. And I am in his home and he told me that he didn’t understand how I can fellowship with this guy and how I can preach in his church after what he had done

The following will not be agreeable to many of you! I do not want to be hurtful but I do think that we need these experiences, however rare they are, to be able to avoid making some mistakes. I love missionaries. I believe in missionaries.

You gotta be careful to get the right mentor. In his book Cross Cultural Servanthood, Duane Elmer discusses arriving on the field and finding an older gentleman to learn Culture from. It’s not about ministry, but get a man who will be willing to teach you what it means to live in the country. By the way, never believe everything he says

Something to consider for sure! Dawson Trotman says in his article there are five reasons Christians do not reproduce: “1. Un-confessed Sin – Impairment to some essential organ can prevent physical reproduction. In the spiritual realm sin is the disease that can keep one from winning the lost. 2. Fear of Man- “Oh, but I am afraid.” someone says

It takes more than one person to train and raise up a person to serve God. Many people will be investing in them. Don’t be jealous and don’t be selfish.

I love the following quote. I have for years tried to explain discipleship. Almost everyone wants it to be a series of lessons. They want to do the 9 lessons and give a certificate

I challenge you to read this article. It is important to realize that many are realizing the need to start working on discipleship. Read this and see if you see something that applies to you. Comment on the article.

“Seventy-five Years as a Disciple Maker, an Interview with Jim Downey” puts more emphasis on the idea of learner/follower in Christ’s two minute sermon in Luke 14:26-35, in which he lists the following requirements of a disciple. Love Him more than family. I believe Christ was referring to an adult child who was willing to follow Him even if family opposes. Love Him more than career, love Him more than material things, and identify with Him daily. Luke 14:26 –“ If any [man] come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

The man is now so sure that God has bidden him do this or that. He is filled with the thought that he has been highly favoured of God, and chosen for some high place in His Kingdom. The deeply hidden self-love is fed and strengthened by this, and he is able to endure all things by the power of this secret strength. He has been spoken to by God! He has been singled out for special favour! His support is now within upon his experience, rather than upon God Himself, and the written Word.

Can you call it faith when you half expect God not to work it out? Have you ever noticed how we get what we expect but too many of us have quit expecting anything? We preach expecting nothing. We pray expecting nothing