Recommended Resources for BARRIERS:
Reason/Apologetics:
• Mere Christianity: C. S. Lewis
• Reasonable Faith: William Lane Craig
• The Reason for God: Timothy Keller
• Christianity for Modern Pagans: Peter Kreeft
• Can Man Live Without God?: Ravi Zacharias
…two simple “first start” books:
• The Case for Faith and The Case for Christ: Lee Strobel
Science:
• The Language of God: Francis Collins
• Absence of Mind: Marilynne Robinson
• Lost World of Genesis One: John Walton
• Beyond the Cosmos: What Recent Discoveries in Astrophysics Reveal about the Glory and Love of God: Hugh Ross
• www.biologos.org
Evil:
• The Problem of Pain: C. S. Lewis
• Evil and the Justice of God: N. T. Wright
• Screwtape Letters: C. S. Lewis
• The Gift of Pain: Philip Yancey and Paul Brand
• Is God to Blame?: Greg Boyd
• Tim Keller’s 9/11 Anniversary speech: http://davidkpark.wordpress.com/2006/09/26/timothy-keller-transcript-the-problem-of-suffering/
Miracles/supernatural:
• Surprised by the Power of the Spirit: Jack Deere
• Power Evangelism: John Wimber
• Surprised by Hope: N. T. Wright
• Miracles (an apologetic): C. S. Lewis
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[ Missions Conference 2011 ]
November 4-13, 2011
Conversations with Missionaries
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It's Not Okay
by Minister of Missions, John Chung
Missions is our participation in God’s plan to reconcile his creation back to himself in Jesus Christ. Each year our missions conference reminds us that we are in a battle to advance the kingdom of God in a world that is sinful, broken, and often opposed to God’s purposes. We are in an epic struggle, not against flesh and blood, but against the powers of this dark world and the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
There is much in our world that makes us realize that the work is not done. We all experience or see things in life that break our hearts or anger our souls to the point of declaring, “It’s not okay!” When we open our eyes to see the world around us there is no shortage of injustice, corruption, oppression, disease, genocide, gendercide, starvation, homelessness, persecution, and evil in our world. Not only is there human suffering here on earth, but we live with the reality that there is the future eternal suffering of hell for too many people who are without salvation in Jesus Christ. On a personal level, it’s not okay that we have friends, neighbors, colleagues, classmates, roommates, and family members that have yet to hear the saving message of the gospel. On a corporate level, we send missionaries and support partners all around the world as part of God’s mission because we are not okay with the fact that there are still 2.8 billion people and 6933 ethnic groups who have yet to hear the good news of salvation. In addition there are over 2000 people groups that still do not have the Word of God in their own languages. These things are not okay.
We need to be reminded that a church that remains self-centered and indifferent is not okay. Believers who remain apathetic and powerless are not okay! Our lack of discipleship and disobedience to Jesus is not okay. These things in my life are not okay with me. As a church they are not okay with us…and most importantly they are not okay with God. So what are we going to do about it?
Fredrick Buechner wrote, “Vocation is where your greatest passion meets the world’s greatest needs.” In this year’s conference we desire to rise up as a church, to commit ourselves and our vocations to God, and to live out our passion for God’s mission together. We need to proclaim that Jesus is the solution for the brokenness of our world. There are too many things that are not okay.The question remains, what are we going do about it?
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Conversations with Missionaries
Click here to hear the full conversation.
It's Not Okay
by Minister of Missions, John Chung
Missions is our participation in God’s plan to reconcile his creation back to himself in Jesus Christ. Each year our missions conference reminds us that we are in a battle to advance the kingdom of God in a world that is sinful, broken, and often opposed to God’s purposes. We are in an epic struggle, not against flesh and blood, but against the powers of this dark world and the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.
There is much in our world that makes us realize that the work is not done. We all experience or see things in life that break our hearts or anger our souls to the point of declaring, “It’s not okay!” When we open our eyes to see the world around us there is no shortage of injustice, corruption, oppression, disease, genocide, gendercide, starvation, homelessness, persecution, and evil in our world. Not only is there human suffering here on earth, but we live with the reality that there is the future eternal suffering of hell for too many people who are without salvation in Jesus Christ. On a personal level, it’s not okay that we have friends, neighbors, colleagues, classmates, roommates, and family members that have yet to hear the saving message of the gospel. On a corporate level, we send missionaries and support partners all around the world as part of God’s mission because we are not okay with the fact that there are still 2.8 billion people and 6933 ethnic groups who have yet to hear the good news of salvation. In addition there are over 2000 people groups that still do not have the Word of God in their own languages. These things are not okay.
We need to be reminded that a church that remains self-centered and indifferent is not okay. Believers who remain apathetic and powerless are not okay! Our lack of discipleship and disobedience to Jesus is not okay. These things in my life are not okay with me. As a church they are not okay with us…and most importantly they are not okay with God. So what are we going to do about it?
Fredrick Buechner wrote, “Vocation is where your greatest passion meets the world’s greatest needs.” In this year’s conference we desire to rise up as a church, to commit ourselves and our vocations to God, and to live out our passion for God’s mission together. We need to proclaim that Jesus is the solution for the brokenness of our world. There are too many things that are not okay.The question remains, what are we going do about it?
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Rich Oppressors Will Be Judged
5 Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you! 2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are moth-eaten. 3 Your gold and silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be a witness against you and will eat your flesh like fire. You have heaped up treasure in the last days. 4 Indeed the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of the reapers have reached the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.[a] 5 You have lived on the earth in pleasure and luxury; you have fattened your hearts as[b] in a day of slaughter. 6 You have condemned, you have murdered the just; he does not resist you.
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