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Missions Conference
By Nathan | February 21, 2006
Okay! I know it has been a while since I’ve posted anything, and yes it has been a week since the mission’s conference. However, I must let everyone know about what the Lord has been doing in our lives.
Last week we had our annual missions conference at Providence. As always, it was an incredible time of rejoicing of what God has been doing all over the world. Not to mention it was a challenging time as well. I know that Jenny has already explained a little about the conference, but I want to expand upon that and elaborate on where we stand a week later.
Our speaker for the Sunday was Dr. Ron Kline. He gave two incredible sermons to challenge the people. Two of the people that he challenged were my wife and I. His message was from Matt. 9:35-38. His sermon breaks down into three points. 1) We’ve forgotten who the workers are, 2) We’ve forgotten what the work is, and 3) We’ve forgotten how it works.
Jenny and I have always said that we are open to missions. We know that there is a great need for the gospel to be spread across the world. Not to mention that I get frustraighted with the American church. We sit so passively in our pews, while our brothers and sisters around the world are dying for their faith. Our faith is so shallow!!! (I’m speaking of myself as well.) CHURCH what is our problem!! The church in China is growing by the thousands every day. There are millions of Christians in China, and I’ve heard some reports as high as a billion. Yes, we are speaking about communist China where it is illegal to be a Christian. Our brothers and sisters have a vibrant faith that is incomprehensible to the American Christian. They are suffering every day for their faith, yet they do not pray for the persecution to end. Rather they desire for it to intensify. They count it as an honor to suffer for their Lord. It reminds me off the great church father Tertullian who said, “The blood of the martyrs are the seed of the church.�
Putting all of this preaching aside, Jenny and I have been challenged to possibly go to the mission field. We do not know if that is where we are to spend our lives, but we are willing if that is what the Lord desires. At this point, we are totally surrendering ourselves to the will of the Father to direct our lives. Nether Jenny nor I have ever been on any sort of a mission’s trip, and that is a shame on our parts. If I am to remain in my previous call of a pastor that is fine, but we both feel that the Lord wants us to have some experience on the field. Maybe we can use it to fire up the American church.
Please remember Jenny and I in your prayers over the next few months as we continue to pray about what the Lord would have us do with our future.
Isaiah 6:4-9a
“And the posts of the door moved at the voice of him that cried, and the house was filled with smoke. 5 Then said I, Woe is me! For I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts. 6 Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar: 7 And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged. 8 Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me. 9 And he said, Go, and tell this people (emphasis added)�
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