One Flock, One Shepherd: The Unfinished Mission
Today, we conclude our week of praying for missions by fasting and praying.
If your personal priorities were like favorites on your phone, what would be included? Like the saved numbers you place in your cell phone, what priorities would be included among your favorites? The care of your family, a job and a career, and time to relax and enjoy yourselves. Social media time, Netflix, and "me time" - would they be in your favorites? Some of you give time to the community because you are officers, firemen, social workers, and teachers. Would you include reaching the nations for the gospel in your favorites? Do missions and evangelism rise to make it in your top five or your top ten?
As you ponder this, consider Paul, who wrote about half of your New Testament. For the apostle Paul, he wished he would go to hell if it meant the Jewish people could know Christ (Romans 9:1-3). Paul had this burning desire to share the gospel where people had never heard the name of Jesus (Romans 15:20).
Again, I ask you: Do missions and evangelism rise to make it in your top five or your top ten?
Find John 10 with me, if you will.
Before our nation was formed, a young man spent much of his adult life spreading the gospel to the Native Americans in the New England area. He said, "I exceedingly longed, that God would get to himself a name among the heathen ... I cared not where or how I lived, or what hardship I went through, so that I could but gain souls to Christ."1 That young man was David Brainard, who died at just 29 years of age from tuberculosis. His diary would inspire thousands over the next few centuries to go into the mission field. "I declare, now I am dying, I would not have spent my life otherwise for the whole world."
Today's Scripture
"Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door but climbs in by another way, that man is a thief and a robber. But he who enters by the do ...
Today, we conclude our week of praying for missions by fasting and praying.
If your personal priorities were like favorites on your phone, what would be included? Like the saved numbers you place in your cell phone, what priorities would be included among your favorites? The care of your family, a job and a career, and time to relax and enjoy yourselves. Social media time, Netflix, and "me time" - would they be in your favorites? Some of you give time to the community because you are officers, firemen, social workers, and teachers. Would you include reaching the nations for the gospel in your favorites? Do missions and evangelism rise to make it in your top five or your top ten?
As you ponder this, consider Paul, who wrote about half of your New Testament. For the apostle Paul, he wished he would go to hell if it meant the Jewish people could know Christ (Romans 9:1-3). Paul had this burning desire to share the gospel where people had never heard the name of Jesus (Romans 15:20).
Again, I ask you: Do missions and evangelism rise to make it in your top five or your top ten?
Find John 10 with me, if you will.
Before our nation was formed, a young man spent much of his adult life spreading the gospel to the Native Americans in the New England area. He said, "I exceedingly longed, that God would get to himself a name among the heathen ... I cared not where or how I lived, or what hardship I went through, so that I could but gain souls to Christ."1 That young man was David Brainard, who died at just 29 years of age from tuberculosis. His diary would inspire thousands over the next few centuries to go into the mission field. "I declare, now I am dying, I would not have spent my life otherwise for the whole world."
Today's Scripture
"Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door but climbs in by another way, that man is a thief and a robber. But he who enters by the do ...
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