The average Southern Baptist church calls the South home, but the only region of the country where those congregations are growing is the Northeast.
“I wanted to see how God could use me in a third-world country,” Johari shared. “I wanted to get out of my comfort zone and use my language skills to share the gospel.”
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Here’s the Explore the Bible Sunday School lesson commentary for March 16, written by Mark Rathel, pastor of Friendship Baptist Church in DeFuniak Springs, Florida.
The events of the day created an increased urgency for evangelism, an invitation, and a salvation that only God could orchestrate, said Lead Pastor Russ Harbin.
“You must be out of your mind.” No one said it. But it had to be what most reasonable people were thinking when they heard what Christian and Laura Rowland had decided to do.
Building a bold missional strategy begins by seeing your associational context as an unentered missions field with unreached people groups.
While the SBC collects hundreds of millions in donations each year, very little is spent on overhead or oversight. Now, a series of lawsuits by pastors accused of abuse has left the denomination unable to pay its legal bills.
