And while I'm immensely thankful for the tons of Gospel seeds our convention's disaster relief ministries will plant; at the same time we must grasp this reality right now: Many of our sister churches are devastated and destroyed and they're in no shape to even begin to cultivate this field, |
Despite the best efforts of the news media, it's impossible to sense the confusion, observe the destruction, smell the stench, hear the cries, dry the tears, clothe the threadbare, as well as hug and feed the hurting and hungry unless you're here, |
Despite this horrific tragedy and temporary setback, Southern Baptists in Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana have the most wonderful opportunity they've ever had to catapult the Gospel of Jesus Christ and God's Kingdom work ahead 50 years, ... if we will but seize the day. |
If you can't get to the Gulf, don't worry. You can find another way to minister, |
In fact, you can't even imagine it, |
It looks like a bombed-out building from World War II, |
It would be extraordinarily hard for mainline denomination people in the South to openly and strongly politick or be involved in a Mormon's run for office. |
It would be extraordinarily hard for mainline denomination people in the South to openly and strongly politick or be involved in a Mormon's run for office. |
It's one thing to send construction teams -- and that's great -- but it's quite another to ask these crippled churches, 'Can we come back next year and help with Vacation Bible School?' |
Praise God for those humble, generous folks. However, we need many, many more people and churches responding like this than we've got right now. |
Southern Baptists have their greatest opportunity to say 'Jesus' to the lost people of the Gulf Coast states and to this nation in our response to what is an unprecedented natural disaster, |
Southern Baptists, I'm begging you to please respond now. Don't just turn off the 10 o'clock news and go to bed grieved, ... Don't merely lay down the newspaper and say, 'Yeah, it's bad down there.' Instead, take action. Pray, and then find a way to get involved. Do it now. |
The Southern Baptist Convention does not support or endorse public statements concerning assassinations of persons, even if they are despicable despots of foreign countries, and neither do I, ... Everyone is aware that the United Stares has a military and government agencies to deal with our foreign threats in a forceful combative way. The Christian's responsibility is to pray for our leaders as well as the extremists around the world. Jesus Christ can save these people and change their lives. |
these people have no homes to go back to, so they're trying to help them relocate and find jobs right where they are. |
This is a golden opportunity for us to show our Baptist distinctives of believing the Bible and lifting up the Lord Jesus in ministry and reaching people for Jesus Christ. |