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Christ’s life and death led to the groundbreaking, world-changing resurrection that forever altered the course of history. After this resurrection the living King Jesus commissioned his disciples to make known the earthshaking message of the gospel. The message of King Jesus is an international message designed to penetrate and invade the domain of human beings, bringing them face to face with God’s deliverer. Jesus was raised from the dead and declared to have all authority. This authority is worldwide for establishing His international glory, by working in families and churches. Let us come and delight ourselves in the glory of the King!

The Great Commission given by Christ to the church is a command to go into all the world and make disciples from every nation. This global vision of God's redeeming love for people from every tribe, tongue, and nation is beautifully pictured in the vision of an ever increasing and life-giving stream in Ezekiel 47. This symbol is given to us to see the effect of the love of God on all people as they are brought to repentant faith in Jesus Christ; his love heals and brings life to everything it touches!

So I have a few minutes to talk about the place of short term missions. I think what's been in view for most of last night and today is long-term missions, but for the next 15 minutes, we're going to consider short-term missions. My name is Jason Dohme, and I was sent out by our host church today Hope Baptist Church. Fourteen families were sent out seven years ago to plant Sovereign Redeemer Community Church.  About 10 minutes away from here, so we meet just down the road. And it's always a pleasure to be back. Let's ask the Lord's blessing. Father thank you for last night. Thank you for today. Thank you for your word. Thank you for men who opened it up and encourage us from it. I pray that our hearts would soak it in. We would love every word. Of yours that, you would pull us up from our thoughts and our ways to your thoughts and your ways we pray this in Jesus name Amen. Well, what a world our modern world is. Just this week we had four men who came back from Turkey that were in Turkey across the ocean for ten days on Wednesday they woke up in Istanbul, and they went to bed right around here.  Later in the week, I was supposed to Skype with a pastor friend in Malawi. Malawi, you go to the southernmost tip of Africa and then go up two countries, that's Malawi. And we do this regularly. He's one of my closest friends in the ministry, and Skype allows us to talk like he was in the next room. If his internet connection has to be particularly good he could put himself on camera, we can see each other, and I can see his kids. And this air travel, and the Internet, and Skype, and WhatsApp, and these tools, lend themselves to short term work overseas.  But I believe there's also a biblical basis for it. If you turn to Acts Chapter 11 I think what we see in Acts Chapter 11 is representative. Meaning you see it elsewhere, we don't have a lot of time, so I am going to this one spot but I think it just represents many places that we could go to in the New Testament.  Acts Chapter 11. I'll be reading 19-26. Acts Chapter 11 beginning in 19- "Now those who were scattered after the persecution that arose over Stephen traveled as far as Phoenicia Cyprus and Antioch preaching the word to no one but the Jews only. But some of them were men from Cyprus and Zarine who when they had come to Antioch spoke to the hellinest preaching the Lord Jesus. And the hand of the Lord was with th

The church's mission to make disciple's of all nations is an endevour which has already lasted 2000 years and is not yet complete. With this in mind we should see that the Great Commission is a multigenerational undertaking which will continue until the Lord returns. Therefore, churches need to focus not only on doing missions work and sending missionaries, but also raising and preparing the next generation for that missionary work of taking the gospel to the unreached.

How can we make our families more missions-minded? It begins with a broader understanding of what missions-mindedness actually is. It isn't enough to just give mental assent to the need of missions, but instead begins with genuine excitement and joy about missions. Parents need to cultivate a love for missions and the missionaries in the home and orient life around the mission of taking the gospel of Jesus Christ to the nations.

“How do we plant a church?” “The answer is as simple as it is difficult to actually employ: “We plant a church in the same way that we pastor a church. We do the work of an evangelist, we disciple converts in the context of a growing community of faith, and we train leaders until they are qualified to lead their own people as elders.” Missions are born out of the local church and with the purpose of establishing a church(es)…any other means or goal is not biblical missions…not primarily but exclusively the role of the church...parachurch ministries under the oversight of the local church can assist but is not the means...no other body has authority from Christ to send but the local church I. Identifying and Training Leaders: Moses-Joshua, Elijah-Elisha, Paul-Timothy…Seminary and Bible Schools can assist but should not be handed over totem (Matt. 9:36-38; Eph. 4:11-16)…Evangelist, Pastors, Teachers (church planter is the pastor of a young church) “Missionary work and theological reflection about the gospel depend on one another. Christian communities are, or become, centers of missionary work only if their leaders and their individual members are involved in understanding, explaining and proclaiming the gospel.” -Eckhard Schnabel II. Ordain, Send, and Oversee (2 Tim. 2:2; 5:22; Acts 13:1-4; 14:26-27)…Jesus was sent (John 3:16-17; Jesus sent Apostles/Disciples (John 20:20-21), missionaries are sent by churches today (Acts 13:1-4)…men that are qualified based on (1 Tim. 3:1-7; Titus 1:5-9)… III. Sending and Caring: Financial Support, Prayers, Visits:  (Phil. 4:18; 3 John 5-8)

Often the mission work of the church is seen as something reserved for those elite few who leave family and friends to go to the other side of the world and preach the gospel. But in reality obedience to the Great Commission in the local church is laid on every Christian and demands the same level of devotion regardless if you are going or sending. Those sent, cannot be sent effectively without faithful and sacrificial work on the part of those who are holding the rope at home.

Opposition from militant Islam, infiltration of secular worldviews that permeate Europe and the US, the prosperity gospel that is spreading from the West into all parts of the world are all tremendous challenges that the churches face in fulfilling the Great Commission and participating in evangelism and the work of missions. Consider: There are 7.3 Billion people in the world. 1.4 Billion are significantly reached; 2.8 Billion have had minimal (inadequate) contact with the gospel; 3.1 Billion are entirely unreached with the Gospel (42%) However, there is every reason to be hopeful and encouraged when we open our Bibles and consider the words of our Savior! Jesus states He will build His church! Will you be used by Jesus to build His Church?

In this biographical sketch, Mike Davenport examines the short life of William Borden (1887–1913) and what it means to live a life devoted to Christ with no reserves, retreats or regrets.

Daniel wrote during the difficult year of the Babylonian captivity. He was a prophet during the reigns of Nebuchadnezzar, Belshazzar, Darius, and Cyrus. The consistent theme of his book is that God is in control, despite appearances. Daniel declares the sovereignty of God over the shifting political, social and moral scenes of life on earth. He protects, prospers, promotes and preserves His people.

We are about to be mentored in fatherhood and family life by one of the greatest father and son duos in history – Philip and Matthew Henry. What we hope to communicate, with as much clarity and detail as we can, is how critical it is to create a culture in your home. God has arranged society so that it is from a home that blessing flows out into the world. This is the Puritan view of the family, which we can see What kind of family life is this? This is sweet family life. This is godly family life. Full of hope, it is a place of blessing. It is heaven on earth. It is ‘as unto the gates of Heaven’. That is what we so desire to communicate here. We have an opportunity here in this generation to reverse something--a corrosion, a spot, a stain on the world of a home. This corrosion is family life that is more like a way station or a hotel, instead of a home in which the promises of God are known, a home in which the love of God is understood. We have a chance to create a home in which the happiness of the Kingdom of Heaven is felt. We have before us a father-son duo from the 17th century who had this kind of life. The father had it, and he delivered it to his son who had it. On this subject, Matthew Henry is not a cold academic, because he draws from holy Scripture and his rich life experience. The family life that this father-son duo fostered has caused blessings for centuries, issuing forth in the publication of volumes which have been a blessing to pastors and families ever since. Home life will drift wherever the forces of culture will take it, if you allow it. We live in an era where most families do not understand the biblical doctrines that should be governing home life. In our age, we are afflicted with a shallow understanding of the government of God in the home. What we learn from these great Puritans is the potency of establishing a strong foundation of home life, to find a compelling vision for home life. It is definitely not a TV sitcom vision for home life, but a home permeated by the love of God and a knowledge of Him and His kingdom. God has made it so that fathers would take the bull by the horns, and take that bull in a certain direction. A father will be wading against everything in the culture that fights against this kind of family life. It will take a man who is determined, willing to cross cultural divides, willing to face anything in order to recover the pictures that we see in Scripture. It

In this brief audio, Malamulo Chindongo speaks of how he has seen God open doors for the gospel to inter into closed countries.