A friend taught me years ago the great value of reviewing events. An evaluation has a way of helping you determine future choices. You may determine whether to share with others about the event and future similar events, or you may determine there were simply too many pitfalls for recommendation. Evaluation also helps you find where improvements can be made. Because we are all human, there is always room for improvement with everything. The only human thing I have ever found that doesn’t … [Read more...]
Stier: Believers must ‘dare to share’
SPRINGFIELD – There is no room for timidity when it comes to sharing the good news of Jesus. That was the message of Greg Stier, the founder of Dare 2 Share evangelism resources, during the Great Commission Conference at Ridgecrest Baptist Church here Feb. 25. Stier and his entire extended family are Christians today because someone shared the gospel with one of his uncles, quite literally on a dare. “I don’t come from a typical, religious, hymn-singing, pew-sitting family,” he said. “I … [Read more...]
Evangelist fellowship plans changes in platform
SPRINGFIELD – Change of methods may be coming to the Fellowship of Missouri Baptist Evangelists plans, as two Great Commission Conference leaders praised evangelists for their influence. While the change was hinted at a meeting during the conference, details will be announced later. Dr. John Yeats, Executive Director of MBC, shared several accounts through the years were “my life has been radically impacted by evangelists.” In one example, Yeats told of taking a difficult youth to camp … [Read more...]
Apologetics network in third year of ministry
JEFFERSON CITY – The Missouri Baptist Apologetics Network enters its third year with eleven speakers available to help MBC churches train their congregations to defend the Christian faith. The MBC in 2015 launched the network, consisting of church leaders committed to the defense of the Christian faith and called to equip Missouri Baptists to engage others in meaningful spiritual conversations. Each leader is an active member of a Missouri Baptist church and is involved in an apologetics … [Read more...]
DOMs aim to focus churches on Great Commission
SPRINGFIELD – Missouri’s directors of missions are concerned for their member churches and hope to help them gain a better focus on the Great Commission. In a breakfast meeting during the Great Commission conference, DOM Fellowship president David Mifflin, of Fellowship Baptist Association, Warsaw, convened the group for announcements and fellowship time. Around the tables the DOMs reacted to the speakers they had been listening to the day prior. Mifflin said he thought the two biggest … [Read more...]
Compassion: ministry’s missing link
SPRINGFIELD – Ed Stetzer believes a main reason more people are not witnessing to the lost is a lack of compassion. Stetzer, executive director for the Billy Graham Center for Evangelism at Wheaton College, indicated many people have a saving faith in Jesus Christ, and many believe those without faith should be reached, but lack their own conviction in carrying out personal evangelism. Stetzer shared Matthew 9:35-38 where Jesus told the disciples to pray to the Lord of the harvest for the … [Read more...]
‘Transformation Talks’: Apply gospel to all of life
SPRINGFIELD – A set of brief “Transformation Talks” at the Missouri Baptist Convention’s Great Commission Conference here, Feb. 24, prompted Missouri Baptists to consider how they might take gospel-transformation into their communities. Josh Branham, pastor of Fairview Baptist Church, Joplin, said that the “Transformation Talks” reminded him about the importance of developing a godly, deep compassion for those who don’t know Christ. And this compassion should drive Christians to take the … [Read more...]
Sen. Lankford: Answer God’s call
SPRINGFIELD – Sen. James Lankford knows a little bit about experiencing a call from God. He also knows a little bit about resisting that call to be obedient. “For all of the disciples, Jesus used one simple phrase to call them: ‘Come follow me,’” Lankford said during a Feb. 25 session of the Great Commission Conference (GCC) at Ridgecrest Baptist Church here. “It wasn’t a calling to an occupation, to a place or a task. It was a calling to a person, and each of them had to make a decision … [Read more...]
Garrison: More Muslims coming to faith in Christ than ever before in history
SPRINGFIELD – Missouri Baptists gained a vision of what God is doing throughout the world to draw people to himself during a presentation by missions expert David Garrison at the Missouri Baptist Convention’s Great Commission Conference here, Feb. 24. “What God is doing in your ministry is part of what God is doing in the world,” Garrison, executive director of New York City-based Global Gates, told Missouri Baptists. He then described how people are coming to the faith in India, China, … [Read more...]
Reid to GCC: ‘Share Jesus without freaking out’
SPRINGFIELD – “What freaks you out the most?” asked Alvin Reid at the MBC Great Commission conference. Reid, professor of evangelism at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary. He then proceeded to show the audience a series of photos of snakes he has kept as pets, including some poisonous ones. “Some people think sharing Jesus with someone would freak them out” he said. But “Witnessing is an honor” he refuted. Reid continued to share insights from his forthcoming book “Sharing … [Read more...]
Mission is to make disciples
SPRINGFIELD – While many people today disdain meetings, Ed Litton told participants of the Great Commission Conference here that Jesus set an appointment that they should all join in on with excitement. “Jesus only had one scheduled meeting, and it was the most profound, most productive meeting,” said Litton a former church planter and now pastor of Redemption Church (a.k.a., First Baptist, North Mobile, Alabama.) That appointment is what Christians often call the Great Commission – the … [Read more...]
Musician Michael Card takes truth ‘from head to heart’
SPRINGFIELD – Michael Card was a featured concert artist during the Great Commission conference and conference organizer Matt Kearns hinted during the introduction that many below age 30 would not know him. But many who listened to contemporary Christian music in the 80’s and 90’s were searching their memory banks, using Google on their phones and recalling songs like “Love Crucified Arose, Emmanuel and El Shaddai” which were coming up on the discography of Card’s web presence. Memories … [Read more...]
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