10 Post-Missions Conference Observations.

Our Faith Promise Missions Conferences here at Mountain Lake Independent Baptist Church are often as much a revival service as they are a missions conference. After several decades of hosting missions conferences as a pastor, preaching missions conferences in various churches, and traveling to the mission fields many times, the following are a few observations on what a focus on missions can do in the lives of believers who commit themselves to active involvement in the "Great Commission."

1. You cannot separate personal consecration to the Lord and world missions.  These two aspects of Christian life and service are inseparable.

   
   

2. God's term for "blessed" and man's term for "blessed" have two very different meanings.  When man thinks of God's blessing, it usually takes the form of wealth and health. God's definition is more that of spiritual stability, spiritual maturity,  service, and the fulfillment and joy of being used of God to influence lives around the world for Christ.
   

3. The greater my understanding of all that God has done and is doing for me, the greater my confidence is that He can do that same thing for others.
   

4. Progress in world missions is dependent upon growth in the spiritual life.
   

5. God's will for every believer is that they would be fully yielded to His will concerning the Great Commission.
   

6. The great cause of reaching every person on this planet with the Gospel is bigger than any particular individual or any particular church.  Our responsibility concerning the great commission is not to exalt any particular missionaries or churches, nor to compare missionaries and churches to each other, but to give ourselves individually to God's particular will for our lives.
   

7. When God calls a particular individual to a specific field of service, we can fully expect God to equip and provide for that person.
   

8. Our church exists solely to advance the Kingdom of God through the preaching of the Gospel and the planting of local churches around the world.
   

9. Every church member is expected to have a part in world missions and must be trained to fulfill that part.
   

10. It is a genuine and intense love for the Lord Jesus Christ that is the only sufficient motive to take and keep a man and his family on the firing line (mission field) for a lifetime.  And it is this love that will motivate others to give sacrificially of their possessions and prayers to get missionaries on the field, here at home, and around the world.

To quote my good friend, Dr. Dan Hummel, in a recent conference we had here at MLIBC, "It would be a great tragedy if the unsaved in Hell had a greater burden for the salvation of the lost than those of us who know the Lord as Savior and have been given by Him the ability and responsibility to reach the lost!"