Articles for Outreach & Missions

The danger today is that in our excess of choice, we’ll choose everything and allow things that matter most to drown in our flooded schedules.

This is what happens at tens of thousands of good churches every weekend. Enough with all that is negative about local churches. This is the story that needs to be told more often.

Sharing Jesus in a post Christian culture isn’t all that scary or difficult. It may require some patience, it will require getting to know people, and it will require faith, real and honest.

As our High Priest, Jesus is able to sympathize with our weaknesses and so provide what he knows we need. He understands the accent of our tears.

Jesus calls us to follow him, and teaches us how to call others. I’m not talking about evangelism, I’m talking about making disciples. Real discipling is about making a way for others to approach the Father.

Missionary parents Wesley and Emily Smyth are raising their four children to understand that the Christian life is supposed to be active, self-giving and about glorifying God and serving others.

Do our hearts break for those who have not yet received Christ’s forgiveness, perhaps living under the wrath of God? Are the gospel and people the overarching passion of our lives?

Fortunately for us, God does great things to provide us with protection against the terrible things we would do to ourselves. Here are eight ways God protects us from ourselves.