Refocusing our Passion for Missions

7 1.Expository Preaching 2.Biblical Discipleship 3.Global Missions 4.Spiritual Worship 5.Sacrificial Love 6.Christ-Like Holiness 7.Exponential Reproduction

"To know the will of God, we need an open Bible and an open map." -- William Carey, missionary to India

A Look Back at Missions

ye youye Jerusalem Judaea Samaria uttermost part of the earth (Act 1:8) But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth.

Acts 16: 6-24

90 – 200 AD Montanists AD Novations AD Donatists AD Paulicians AD Cathari, Bogomils, Albigenses, Waldenses, Henricians, Bulgarians, Petrobusians, Arnoldists, Lollards Hussites and Ana Baptist

Great Britain England’s motto “Sun never sets on the British Empire.” England becomes ruler over 25% of the land mass of the Earth. Over 700 thousand people become British citizens

Great Britain They spread the English language throughout these territories by missionary out of their country, taking the KJV and teaching them to read and to know God. This Island Country that is no bigger than Georgia, was used by God to reach the world for Christ, as long as they had a love for the word of God (key of David)

Canaan Shem Japheth (Gen 9:25-27) And he said, Cursed be Canaan; a servant of servants shall he be unto his brethren. And he said, Blessed be the LORD God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant. God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.

United States 5600 years this land has been basically untouched and full of natural resources, and wide open. thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this (Est 4:14) For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father's house shall be destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?

United States Spain went to the south (Mexico and South America) for the Gold and the RRC. followed them. France went to the north (Canada) for the fur And the RRC went with them. England went to the middle (USA) for the Gospel and the RRC bow down to them. (vs.9)

United States Our constitution is based on the KJV Bible. God begins to move across this country in the same pattern as he has always East to West st Baptist Church is formed in Rhode Island by John Clarke and soon spread over the country

Count Zinzendorf ( )

 He begins a missionary movement through a group called the Maravings  They believed in separation from the world in order to reach the world  They had a logo with an ox on an alter pulling a plow with the statement “ready for either”  There are records of Maravings Missionaries that sold themselves in to slavery in order to reach the slaves.  John Wesley came to America to preach and his preaching flopped. And a Maraving Missionary witnessed to him and he got saved. PHILADELPHIaPHILADELPHIa

Richard Baxter “I preach to never preach again, as a dying man to dying men.”

George Fox Started the Quaker Movement

John Bunyan  Writes the Book Pilgrims Progress  Spent most of his life in prison

Jonathan Edwards God uses to preach the famous message “Sinners in the hands of an angry God”

John Wesley

 Starts the Methodist movement  Travels 250 thousand miles on horse back  42,000 sermons  233 Books and Pamphlets PHILADELPHIaPHILADELPHIa

George Whitfield

 Called the Prince of Preachers  Preached 7 times a day  Preached until his throat bleed  Ben Franklin said, “When I hear him preach, I leave my money at home because I want to give it all.”  He preached his last words from his bed with people gathered around his window and he said, “Lord Jesus I am weary in your work, but not of your work.” PHILADELPHIaPHILADELPHIa

Robert Morrison Missionary to China Lived in a cellar for 35 years translating the KJV into their language

Adoniram Judson

 Missionary to Burma  Stated “I will not leave Burma until the cross of Christ be firmly planted for ever.”  30 years after his death there are 63 Baptist churches and 165 missionaries  His wife and daughters die in the mission fields and he sat on the grave for 2 days to keep the natives from eating the bodies PHILADELPHIaPHILADELPHIa

George Mueller

 Built 5 major orphanages  Prayed in 7.5 million dollars  Feed 2,000 orphans a day  Distributed 11 million tracts and 300 Bibles  Supported over 163 missionaries  Read through the Bible over 200 times, 100 of them on his knees PHILADELPHIaPHILADELPHIa

David Livingstone

 Traveled 9000 miles on foot through the interior of Africa  When he died the African people loved him so much they cut out his heart and buried it there, before his body was sent back to England. PHILADELPHIaPHILADELPHIa

Hudson Taylor

 Missionary to China  Planted 205 Churches  Trained 849 Missionaries PHILADELPHIaPHILADELPHIa

David Brainerd Missionary to the American Indian

William Carey Father of Modern Mission

 Missionary to India  Spends 42 years there without a furlough.  Trained himself 6 languages  Translated the KJV in to 44 languages and dialects PHILADELPHIaPHILADELPHIa

All of these men served in the greatest time of God’s power in church history and never did any of these men speak in an unknown tongue, or exercise the gift of healing. They just believed God and Preached the Word of God

All of these men had one book! KJV