Embracing ALife of Mission

• Acts 13:1-3

Salvation Leads To Mission

Part of the DNA of orthodoxChristianity Acts 1:8

Philippians 1:5; 1 Thess. 1:6-8

They Evangelized, Organized and Christianized

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• Mission is led and empowered by the Holy Spirit

• The Spirit works through human instrumentality

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• Paul had a strategy

• We have a strategy

• A BIG PART OF OUR STRATEGY INVOLVES COOPERATION

• We cooperate with other Southern Baptist Churches

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• We work together through the Cooperative Program (1925)

• We work together with over 43,000 other SBC churches

• We give 8% to the Cooperative Program

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• We receive two supplemental offerings

• Lottie Moon—Christmas (IMB)

• Annie Armstrong-Spring (NAMB)

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• What does it do?

• IMB: 4885 Personnel 266,451 baptisms 24,073 new churches

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• What does it do?

• NAMB: 929 new churches planted Goal 15,000 new churches

over next ten years

Combining These Two: Our Goal

$100,000

Mission Takes Sacrifice and Commitment• Acts 14:26-28; Phil. 4:16-18

• Talk with your family• Participate in the conference• Get to know the missionaries• Talk and pray as Sunday School

classes. (2 Cor. 8:3-5)