The Value of Kingdom Collaboration
Friday, June 27th, 2008 Posted in David Rogers, Missions | No Comments »When I attended COMIBAM 2006, the 3rd Latin American – Iberian World Missionary Conference, in Granada, Spain, one of the main topics dealt with was that of Strategic Partnerships. I believe that the whole question of how we can most ...
Cross-Cultural Church Planting Training
Monday, June 23rd, 2008 Posted in Discipleship, Ecclesiology, Evangelism, Geoff Baggett, International Mission Board, Missional, Missions, SBC Issues | 1 Comment »I'm forced to write this post several days in advance because (as you are reading this) I am currently outside the United States. I am leading my church's third team of the year to the Pachitea Province in Peru. ...
Quotable - Stephen Neill
Sunday, June 22nd, 2008 Posted in Books, Missions | 3 Comments »"In the days of William Carey, a year would ordinarily elapse between the posting of an important letter and the receipt of the answer. Naturally the missionary enjoyed almost complete freedom of action; he was compelled by force of ...
The Danger of Baptist Isolationism on the Mission Field
Monday, June 16th, 2008 Posted in Baptist Life, David Rogers, International Mission Board, Missions, SBC Issues, Unity | 39 Comments »For the past couple of years, one of the main issues that has driven the “Baptist blogosphere” has been the famous (or infamous, depending on your perspective) IMB guidelines on baptism and “private prayer language.” As most who read this ...
You Make the Call! - Episode 2
Thursday, June 12th, 2008 Posted in Baptism, Church Membership, Current Events, Ecclesiology, International Mission Board, Missions, SBC Issues | 21 Comments »You make the call ... on baptism. A young soldier, who hails from a Southern Baptist heritage and family (but has not, previously, made a faith decision of his own) makes a decision to follow Christ and is saved while deployed ...
My Daughter … A Servant
Saturday, June 7th, 2008 Posted in Missions, NAMB | 1 Comment »This past Monday I did one of the most difficult things that I have ever done in my life. I took my 16-year-old to the airport and placed her on a plane to California. I won't see her ...
Jesus is Worthy
Thursday, June 5th, 2008 Posted in From the Middle East, Missions, Theology | 8 Comments »Two weeks ago in a conservative Islamic country (99.8% Muslim), among an unreached, conservative Muslim people group, I sat in the living room of a new friend. Seated around this room were local Muslim-background Believers (MBBs) who had requested a ...
You Make the Call! - Episode 1
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008 Posted in Baptist Life, Church, Church Life, Culture, Current Events, Missions, Pastoral Issues, SBC Issues, Theology | 24 Comments »A Brief Word of Explanation ... I'm going to experiment with a new form of post today. Viewers of 1980's-era Monday Night Football or This Week In Baseball might remember a segment called “You Make the Call”, sponsored for quite some ...
“Time to Change” - An Analysis
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008 Posted in Baptist Life, Geoff Baggett, International Mission Board, Missions, SBC Issues, SBC News, Uncategorized | 46 Comments »A couple of us at sbc IMPACT! "caught wind" of the coming "Time to Change" initiative late last week. I knew that a press release was forthcoming. I considered running it, but, in the end, chose not to ...
What I Would Like to Say to Those Coming on Mission Trips
Thursday, May 29th, 2008 Posted in International Mission Board, Missional, Missions | 8 Comments »Guy Muse is a Southern Baptist missionary in Ecuador. He has contributed the occasional post for sbc IMPACT! Guy recently posted this article on his personal blog, and he offers it for the edification of our readers. It's a post ...
