Foreigners Bringing the Gospel to Pagan England and America - Reverse Missions

Foreigners Bringing the Gospel to Pagan England and America - Reverse Missions (Podcast), by Pastor Kevin Swanson 
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Reaching The Nahuati Mountain People

Reaching The Nahuati Mountain People, by Markus Reyes

While modern day hucksters like Creflo Dollar delude their followers into believing they are "spreading the gospel," true followers of our Lord Jesus Christ continue to labor for their Master, and usually do so without million dollar mansions and $65 million dollar airplanes!

The following is an excerpt from the article: Creflo Dollar, Jay-Z, and Kanye West: The High Priests Of The Prosperity Gospel:

"Grandmaster Flash prophesied this over 30 years ago in the early days of the art form.  In his song The Message, he proclaims “…it’s all about money, ain’t a damn thing funny, you got to have a con in this land of milk and honey.”

Our Lord Jesus Says:

"Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost. Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded thee. And lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the earth." - Matthew 28:19,20

Recommended reading:

Televangelist Creflo Dollar Needs 200,000 People to Donate $300 Each So He Can Buy A $65 Million "Ministry" Plane
Left Behind: "It's A Money Scheme Now, And It's Evil!"
Pat Robertson Attacks Creationists Again
The Roman Road To Salvation (my post)

Bible Translator Shot To Death While Trying to Protect Family in War Torn Central Africa

Bible Translator Shot To Death While Trying to Protect Family in War Torn Central Africa - christiannews.net

Excerpt from this article:

"A Wycliffe Bible translator was gunned down last week during a deadly spate of violence in the Central African Republic. Elisee Zama was working with ACATBA (Association Centrafricaine pour la Traduction de la Bible et l’Alphabétisation), which is Wycliffe’s ministry partner in the Central African Republic (C.A.R.). As a part of the group, Zama was working 'to promote local language development, Bible translation, literacy and community development in the Central African Republic.'”
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One of the early church fathers, Tertullian, wrote that "The blood of martyrs is the seed of the church." Missionaries and Bible translators put themselves into harm's way for the cause of our Lord Jesus Christ. And when they die in the line of duty, it is a lost for those of us left behind, but it is a gain for the gospel.

My prayer is that someone reading this post right now might prayerfully consider whether God is calling them to the mission field in order to take up the work our dear brother Elisee Zama left behind! And if the Lord doesn't lead you to physically go to the mission field, perhaps you could still help out by donating to worthy missions, like Wycliffe Bible Translators. Our Lord Jesus says:

"And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of water only in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you he shall in no wise lose his reward." - Matthew 10:42

From Greenland's Icy Mountains

1. From Greenland's icy mountains, from India's coral strand;
Where Afric's sunny fountains roll down their golden sand:
From many an ancient river, from many a palmy plain,
They call us to deliver their land from error's chain.

2. What though the spicy breezes blow soft o'er Ceylon's isle;
Though every prospect pleases, and only man is vile?
In vain with lavish kindness the gifts of God are strown;
The heathen in his blindness bows down to wood and stone.

3. Shall we, whose souls are lighted with wisdom from on high,
Shall we to those benighted the lamp of life deny?
Salvation! O salvation! The joyful sound proclaim,
Till earth's remotest nation has learned Messiah's Name.

4. Waft, waft, ye winds, His story, and you, ye waters, roll
Till, like a sea of glory, it spreads from pole to pole:
Till o'er our ransomed nature the Lamb for sinners slain,
Redeemer, King, Creator, in bliss returns to reign.

Recommended reading and viewing:

Please Don't Send me to Africa - You Tube video

Please Don't Send me to ... America (my post)

The Roman Road to Salvation(my post) 

William Carey: What the World Needs Today!

Here is a great audio biography of one of the worlds greatest missionaries in years past:

William Carey's Missionary Text, by Bob Dickie

Recommended reading (my post):

My Prayer for 2013: Every Reader a Missionary

From Greenland's Icy Mountains: Introducing SIM.org

One of the highlights of my day is checking the stats on this website (My Gospel Project) to see how many people have visited my site and from where.  Just within the past week I have had visitors from the United States, Canada, Germany, The Netherlands, France, United Kingdom, Malaysia, China, South Korea, and Italy.

Since I started My Gospel Project I have had people from over 70 countries around the world visit this site. (See What is My Gospel Project for a full list of countries this website has reached).

 I don't say that to brag, but rather to encourage my readers to start their own 'Gospel Project.' My church supports a lot of missionaries around the world. Just this past week we heard from a husband and wife who were serving in Thailand through SIM.org (which stands for serving in Missions).  I was so impressed by the work they are doing over there I added SIM.org to my list of organizations that I ask my readers to donate to (along with Wycliffe Bible Translators and Sermonaudio.com).

We can't all be missionaries in foreign countries, but God helping us we can support them financially. And perhaps the Lord will lay it upon your heart to start a blog - maybe similar to this one, or maybe totally different. Either way, we have our Lord's promise that:

"My word shall not return to me void, but shall accomplish what I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it." - Isaiah 55:11

Recommended listening:

A Vision for Medical Missions: The Gospel Preached by Hands and Feet, by Pastor Kevin Swanson

Recommended reading:

Please Don't Send my to...America? (my post)
Eternity in Their Hearts, by Don Richardson
Pelendo - God's Prophet in the Congo, by Alpha E. Almquist Anderson

From Greenland's Icy mountains

From Greenland's icy mountains, from India's coral strand
Where Africa's sunny fountain, rolls down their golden sands,
From many an ancient river, from many a palmy plain
Christ calls us to deliver his lands from errors chains.

What though the spicy breezes blow soft o'er Ceylans Isle
Though every prospect pleases and only man is vile
In vain with lavish kindness, the gifts of God are strown
The heathen in his blindness bows down to wood and stone.

Shall we whose souls are lighted, with wisdom from on high
Shall we to men benighted, the lamp of life deny?
Salvation! O salvation, the joyful sound proclaim,
Till earth's remotest nation has learned Messiah's name.

Waft Waft ye winds his story, and you ye waters roll
Till like a sea of glory, it spreads from pole to pole.
Til o'er our ransomed nature, the Lamb for sinners slain,
Redeemer, King, Creator, in bliss returns to reign.    

  

Please Don't Send Me to ... America?

I grew up in a church that had a long history of supporting missionaries to other countries. And so when I first heard the song, Please Don't Send Me to Africa, it brought me back to my child hood days sitting in church listening to some missionary speak of the work he or she was doing in so distant land. Here is the chorus to this cute song:

"Please don't send me to Africa

I'm sure I don't have what it takes

I'm just a man, I'm not a Tarzan

Don't like monkeys, gorillas or snakes.

I'll serve you well in suburbia, in my comfortable middle class life

But please don't send me to Africa

Where the natives are restless at night."

Today I listened to a sermon that might have been called The Sequel to Please Don't Send Me to Africa. This sermon is by Keith Daniels of South Africa and it is titled:  A Warning To America.

Here is just a short excerpt from this very powerful - and even scary - sermon:

"But now my children and my wife were coming back to America and we were going to have six days in New York... And as I was walking, suddenly, my heart sank. Because I saw buildings suddenly with neon lights that were so filthy what was being advertised on those neon lights...I could not believe my eyes at such filth and depravity was so public and my heart just sank. And I said, No God, no. And I began to cry. If it was so filthy outside can you inagine how defiled a human would be inside if you walked in...?...I turned around and looked at another building and it was worse, more bigger, more defiling...  And I began to weep aload, and I said, 'God, I can't bring my children to New York.'... I said, no, you defile your child bringing your child to America. You defile you child bringing him to New York, the greatest city in the world....And I began to weep, and I began to weep loader than I thought I was weeping, I wept so load I was standing there sobbing...and I lifted my hands up and I was shouting, I didn't know I was shoutiing, I was not trying to be fanatical...I cried so loud in my anger that I couldn't bring my children to the city without defiling them. I cried out 'God I'll do anything but close these building down God close these buildings down! They're defiling the children...God this is defiling, this is defiling. Close these buildings down...in Jesus Name I wept. A few hundred people were standing still...I looked at their faces and most of them had tears coming down their faces..."

Recommended reading:

The roman Road to Salvation
The Last Night of Sodom, by Dr. Jerry Bilkes

David Brainard - Missionary to the Indians

On my way home from work last night I listened to an excellent message on David Brianard, missionary to the Indians.  I want to encourage you to listen to it as well.

During my 9 years in prison I got to know a lot of Indians - or Native Americans, or just Natives, as many prefer to be called.  I have had the chance to get into some deep discussions with them about the past, specifically how the white men came to this country and 'stole' their land from them.

I tell them honestly that I have mixed feelings about it. My relatives came to this country from Scandinavia in the late 1800's, and my grandfather was a wheat farmer back in North Dakota - a land that was occupied just a generation earlier native tribes such as the Dakota and Lakota Sioux.

I don't believe my grandfather stole anything from anybody. But there is no question that much of the white man's dealings with the Indians/Natives (as well as the blacks and the Mexicans in this country) have been incredibly evil in God's sight. On judgment day, all of those sins will have to be accounted for  and punished, unless they are covered by the blood of our Lord Jesus Christ.

But getting back to David Brainard. A person can devote their whole life to working for social justice - and it is a noble calling. But David Brainard devoted his life to bringing the gospel to the native/Indian tribes and that is a much higher calling. Please take time to listen to this great message!

David Brainard - Missionary to the Indians, by Michael Phillips