April 2011 – Red Pill Brethren

Could your church be modern missionaries?

“Tomorrow we are moving the entire Courageous Church operation to Tuscaloosa, Alabama – ground zero of the worst tornadoes in decades.

I want you to come with me. We will not be having our Sunday services, but instead will be joining churches and thousands of people in Tuscaloosa that lost everything they own and many people they love.

The buildings of Bethel Church of Pratt City were completely destroyed. I just spoke with the pastor there, TL Lewis, and he said that CBS asked him what he was going to do since his church was destroyed. He replied to the reporter, “Our church BUILDINGS were destroyed, but the people are stronger than ever. Our church remains.” Wow I was encouraged by that.

Tomorrow we will worship with Rev. Platt and the people of Bethel Church and then serve them lunch after the service and host games and fun activities with the kids there….”

Could your church be modern missionaries?

Whoever you are, or whatever it is that you do, when you really want something, it’s because that desire originated in the soul of the universe. It’s your mission on earth.

And when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.

Paulo Coelho

Some wish to live within the sound of a chapel bell; I wish to run a rescue mission within a yard of hell.

C.T. Studd

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Mohandas K. Gandhi

If you’re not living on the edge, you’re taking up too much room.

A mission focus looks first at those who are outside the church before it ever looks at the internal needs of the church.

Invading Secular Space by Martin Robinson & Dwight Smith, 2003

The mission of God: to restore all of creation to wholeness (shalom).

Rev. Dr. Ken Shuman

Missional Movie Monday

Entertaining Angels – the Dorothy Day story.

Missional Movie Monday

It’s amazing what can be accomplished if you don’t worry about who gets the credit.

Clarence W. Jones

Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love.

Roland Allen