Week 5 Day 5-Train

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DAY 5 – tRAIN IN EVANGELISM—GO ON MISSION

⁸ But you shall receive power when the Holy Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.” 

                                                                                                 Acts 1:8

    To be a member of any Southern Baptist church, one should almost be required to quote from memory the passage above and the one we will use tomorrow. Both are commonly called “The Great Commission.” Southern Baptists are renowned for a lot of things, but most of all, we are known for our cooperation with other churches in the Cooperative Program, sending out one of the greatest numbers of vocational missionaries to the world.

    Our church and denomination send missionaries to the world through an agency known as the International Mission Board (IMB). We also send out missionaries to the United States and its territories as well as Canada through what is called the North American Mission Board (NAMB). We also promote the ministries within the state of Texas through Texas Baptists, also called the Baptist General Convention of Texas.

    First Baptist Killeen currently allocates 9.6 percent of its general offering to the Cooperative Program to support state, national, and international ministries and missions. We also designate another 1 percent of our general offerings to support the Bell Baptist Association. As a result, more than a tenth of our “general offerings” go to missions through the Cooperative Program alone. That means if you give $100 to the offering without designating it to go to a certain ministry, $10.60 will automatically go to missions outside of our local church.

    Additionally, we support a variety of other missions and causes including the Killeen Food Care Center, world hunger relief, HOPE pregnancy center, the Bell County J.A.I.L. ministry, a church ministry in Mexico, and training for missions in our children’s Royal Ambassadors and Girls in Action ministries.

    First Baptist Church also has missions committee which directs funds to go to missions, both local and abroad, to encourage mission-minded projects in our church.

    We call the passages today the “Great Commission” not only because Christ commissioned us to tell others about Christ, but also because together, we are co-missionaries with Him in spreading the good news, the “gospel” of Christ’s salvation, around the world.

    Last week, we wrote down our “salvation testimonies” of how Christ saved us, individually. This week, we need to learn how to share God’s Plan of Salvation, which shows how God can save others. We share this plan to others in obedience to that Great Commission.

    Look up in your Bible the following verses and write them down. I would even encourage you to memorize these simple yet profoundly salvational verses:

Romans 3:23--______________________________________

John 3:16--________________________________________

Romans 10:9-10--__________________________________

Romans 10:13--_____________________________________

    With these verses, we can share the A, B, C Plan of Salvation, that we must first admit that all of us have sinned and fall short of God’s glory. We must be willing to turn from our sins and turn to God. (Romans 3:23)

    Second, we must believe that Christ died to take away the penalty of our sins. This belief is not only intellectual believing but also spiritual receiving that forgiveness into our lives. (John 3:16)

    Third, we must call upon the name of the Lord, confessing Him as our Savior and Lord, and asking Him to come to reside in our lives, changing us with eternal life. (Romans 10:9, 10, 13)

Day 6, Become Disciple Makers