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! Christians On Mission
Two years ago.
Getting ready to go on a mission trip to Brazil.
Buying large suitcase at a store.
Woman asked: “Why would you go?”
A little offended that we would go to place [in this case, Brazil], where so many people are at least nominally Christian, to try to convert people to faith in Jesus.
A commitment my wife Michele and I have made:
*We will pray, give, and go to take the gospel all over the world – as long as we live.*
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*We will lead our family to pray, give, and go to take the gospel all over the world – as long as we live.*
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*We will encourage others to pray, give, and go to take the gospel all over the world – as long as we live.*
Why?
Here’s why —
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**I will pray, give, and go because God’s command is so clear.*
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Matthew 28:18 And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to Me in heaven and on earth.
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Matthew 28:19 Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, \\ \\
Matthew 28:20 teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”
Amen.
*One major command that Jesus gives there: “Make disciples.”*
By Going – *make disciples*.
By Baptizing – *make disciples*.
By Teaching – *make disciples*.
By Relying on the Power and Presence of the Lord Jesus – *make disciples*.
Pastors and church workers riding in to class at from 6 to 10:30 PM.
Riding buses after a hard day of work in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
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**I will pray, give, and go because the Gospel is so precious.*
Thailand trip.
A mission trip we could take our families on.
So we and some friends from a church I had served in Rocky Mount made plans to go.
Michele, Joshua, and me.
A family with two teenaged daughters.
Another family with two young daughters.
A family with a little girl a little older than Joshua and a son, Clark, who is a little younger than Joshua.
At the time, Joshua was 6. Clark was 5.
Both of them had crew cuts.
24 hours in the air.
Connecting flights in Dallas~/Fort Worth and Tokyo.
A night in Bangkok.
Then we arrived in Pattaya on the Gulf of Thailand.
Arrived and found out our assignment.
In Thailand, but our ministry target was the Han Chinese.
Hundreds of thousands of them go on vacation to Thailand each year.
Giving out Bibles, a video CD of the “Jesus Film,” a pack of books and tracks.
Outside of a restaurant [Chinese!!] in Thailand.
Busloads of tourists.
Wait on them to come out.
Joshua and Clark: Me in fay, song gay nee, shun jing.
“This is a free gift.
I give it to you.
God’s book.”
Some would walk right by.
We learned that if one person walked past without taking it, then a whole busload would.
But if one person would take it, then the whole busload would.
Prayed hard for that first person to take the packet.
Then, we discovered that Joshua and Clark were like magnets for those Chinese people.
Cherish boys.
Little American boys with crew cuts chanting out to them were irresistible.
Didn’t want Bibles from me.
Or from Michele.
Wanted them from those little boys.
Then came back to take pictures.
Joshua and Clark were like Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck at Disney World.
Everybody wanted a picture with them.
Watched them take those Bibles, load up on tour bus, drove away, you could see some in the windows, reading their new Bibles.
The average Chinese person reads around 4 to 5 hours each day.
Those Bibles would be read!
On average, when a copy of the Jesus film is given to one Chinese person, 10 Chinese people will watch that copy.
On average, one out of every 10 people who see that video trusts Christ as Savior.
Exciting to know that for every packet we gave out, at least one person was going to come to Christ.
Maybe not the person you gave it to, but someone.
Gospel is so precious!
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**I will pray, give, and go because the reward is so great.*
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Nicholas Muteti, my friend who pastors Forestville Baptist Church, near Raleigh.
I wish he were here to tell you his story.
He tells it so much better than I ever could.
But this is how he told his story to me.
Nicholas grew up in Kenya.
Lived in a small village in a family that was not rich, but was not poor, either.
He was saved as a teenager when he was visiting in the city one day.
A preacher was preaching.
As he did, Nicholas heard the gospel.
“It was like God was speaking to my heart and saying, ‘Nicholas, I know you and I love you and I want to save you.
I will be your Father and you will be my child.
I will give you new life through Jesus Christ.”
Nicholas trusted Jesus.
He went back to his own village and shared his good news with his family.
Nicholas began to read his Bible and pray.
God began to convict him to go to the neighboring Masai tribe, the enemies of his tribe, and to tell them about salvation through Jesus.
He told his parents what God was leading him to do.
They said, “Nicholas, you are our oldest son.
Our family is depending on you.
If you go to that village, the Masai warriors will kill you.
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