Hey Guys we need some help staffing Libertyfest welcome tent. Here is the breakdown:
8:30 – 9:00 Need one person
9:00 – 9:30 Need one person
11:30 – noon Need two people
Noon – 12:30 Need one person
12:30 – 1:00 Need one person
1:00 – 1:30 Need three people (this is currently totally unstaffed)
1:30 – 2:00 Need two people
2:00 – 2:30 Need three people (this is currently totally unstaffed)
2:30 – 3:00 Need one person
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3:30 – 4:00 Need two people
Great opportunity for some fun connecting with people. if available contact Katie Katie Floyd Carroll at kcarroll@libertylive.com
Dr Jerry Rankin, the outgoing president of the IMB, our mission board, had these possible scenarios on his latest blog post.
As we forecast and develop scenarios based on what the world could look like in the coming years, consider these possible future realities:
• North Korea will cease to exist in the near future as it either succumbs to peaceful reunification with South Korea or is assimilated into China.
• Cuba will become more open to the world, at which time outside Christian entities will flow into the country claiming a piece of the action and destroy, through patronizing subsidy, one of the most spiritual, authentic movements to Christ we have seen in this generation. (Emphasis is mine. This is an important concept we will discuss in the near future. Sometimes money does more harm than good. Money can create a great spiritual apathy.)
• The Muslim world will change from within as moderates will become more assertive, squelching radical elements and bringing Islamic societies into more compatible relationships internationally; there will still be resistance to the gospel, but the gospel will find an increased response.
• African and Latin American countries will continue to be responsive, but church growth will be inhibited by increased secularization and syncretism as these continents flounder under continuing political and economic crises. Likewise, Russia and the former Soviet Republics will become more and more dysfunctional politically, socially and economically and experience a declining influence and role in international affairs.
• China will become more liberalized politically and, along with Korea, India and Vietnam, use their massive workforce and heated economies to supplant the G7 western nations that have dominated global finance in the past. With the changing demographics of Europe, I believe it will become the harvest field of the future as a spiritual hungry immigrant population replaces the post-Christian humanism seen today.
• What is the future with regard to missions? America’s political influence will rapidly decline along with the mortgaging of its financial future. Continuing polarization of society and a fragile economy will diminish our country in its potential for sending missionaries to be replaced by Koreans, Chinese, South Asians and Latin Americans who will emerge at the forefront of fulfilling the Great Commission.
• The nature of missions will radically change. There will be increasing and widespread hostility toward a Christian witness. More sophisticated governments are recognizing Americans who venture overseas with presumed humanitarian motives have unwelcome evangelistic agendas. The future missionary must come out of a marketplace ministry; credible global platforms for medical work, education, technology and business consultation must become the channels for sharing the gospel and planting churches.
• The IMB will move from being a missionary-sending agency that screens and vets those worthy of sharing the gospel overseas to become a facilitator for mobilizing the vast resources and potential of Southern Baptists to reach a lost world. The adoption of recommendations for a Great Commission Resurgence is just the beginning of new incentive for a changing denominational structure and revised priorities in the future. Churches will have a heart and commitment for missions as never before; we must serve them and assist them as they send out missionaries and engage the world or be marginalized in our relevance. (Emphasis Mine: I like their view of serving churches. Not sure I see a movement of churches that are dying to do missions. Instead I see churches desperately focused on themselves, sending fewer and fewer missionaries into the field. Of course this is simply an opinion of my own)
Below is a brochure for “The Bleeding Edge Workshop” that Liberty Baptist Church is doing in conjunction with the NAME affinity and the Church and Partner Services division of the International Missions Board
We are opening this conference first to Metro Missions pastors. If space allows we will open it up to others.
To Register online click here.
For more information please contact :
Ken McLemore, Missions Pastor , Liberty Baptist Church, Hampton, Virginia.
Kmclemore@lbcmin.com Phone 757-826-2110, Ext 307 or
Katie Day , Missions Assistant , Liberty Baptist Missions , Ext 313
Download Brochure Here.Bleeding Edge Conference2
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This is a repeat but it is my favorite video. Wow. For my fellow Christ followers, this makes me wonder:
” What am I doing to change the world for the better?”
America and The World:
- 6.8 Billion people on earth.
- 4 Billion could not read a bible if they had it.
- 2 billion do not even have access to the gospel. They could walk for days without finding anyone to tell them how they can know Christ.
- America has 5% of the world’s population.
- We are the most evangelized country in the world. The gospel is so plentiful here compared to the rest of the world.
Now take the denomination I serve in , Southern Baptist.
- 45,000 churches (That is just our churches. Total churches are around 350-400,000 churches of all denom’s.)
- 1200 local associations
- 42 State Conventions.
- 5000 “home missionaries”
- 12 billion dollars taken in by SB Churches.
- 100,000 paid church staff or denominational workers.
- We only spend 300 million to reach the rest of the 95% of the world.
- We only send 5000 missionaries to reach the other 95% of the world.
- As a percentage of our people we say we have in our denom. we send .0003% of our people to reach 95% of the world.
- If we sent simply 1% of our denomination it would equal about 160,000 missionaries.
Something is wrong here given what the Bible teaches.
I wonder if this theory applies to churches? I guess the reason I ask this is because I see a significant amount of people who come to a church, forage to get their needs met then move on.
Many are solid Christians, but instead of a give mentality they have a take mentality. After they take what they need , they move on. Of course this is not everyone but it does apply to some. Just a thought.
