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I was asked to preach at the 2nd annual missionary conference here in Bogota last Saturday. The pastors have now named the mission agency SIBAN, which stands for SIervos Bautistas A las Naciones (Baptist servants to the Nations). The preaching went very well, and the message reflected many insights that I have gleaned from pastors here. I'll just mentions my main points so you get the idea (the outline was nicer looking in Spanish).
Following the Compass of Paul's Strategy
Romans 15
The missions strategy of Paul consists of three tasks that we should emulate:
I. Understand the mission: vv. 7-13
- We must understand that God wants to see unity that leads to more people glorifying Him.
- Our goal is not to be comfortable, nor a social club, nor to brag about our sound doctrine but to reach more people for the glory of God.
- We see that Paul relied on the work of the Holy Spirit in people's lives.
- He fulfilled his ministry because he left strong, reproducing churches in the major cities.
- On a personal level, every pastor and missionary should be reproducing himself.
- On a practical level... Are we doing all of the preaching and teaching because we're the best at it? We need to think about who we will leave in our place and think long-range.
- We also need a reproducible model in Colombia for how we plant new churches.
- We're at a crucial point in the history of missions here in Colombia.
- Where do we go from here?
- There's a lot to do in Bogota, but what about the rest of the country?
- We does God want us to go next?