As much as I would love to sit through six(teen?) presidential nomination speeches, see former students, meet IMB personnel whom I do not know, cast my ballot for Frank Cox, Bill Henard, and John David Newland, spend time with some people I love and rarely get to see, make my way to Paradise Pen in the Fashion Mall, and meet folks at the Southern Seminary booth (which I hear will be bigger and better than ever), I am not going to Indianapolis.
It's not that I don't believe in denominational politics nor like to rub elbows with my fellow Southern Baptists, nor that I don't think the annual meeting is important, but a few years ago I heard John Maxwell talk about making trades in life and what he said made perfect sense to me. So this year I am trading having a very tiny impact and involvement in the SBC for having what I pray will be a major impact in the lives and ministries of a group of pastors in Nigeria. I will be teaching expository preaching at the Baptist seminary in Ogbomoso. If the Lord enables me to share a passion and a process for faithfully proclaiming God's Word, and if those pastors go back to their churches and effectively communicate the Scriptures so that the lives of their people are changed through the knowledge of the Word, then that is a tradeoff worth making.
Thursday, June 05, 2008
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9 comments:
Good call! But you will be missed in Indy (by someone I'm sure).
God bless you as you travel and invest in those ministers. You'll be missed in Indy.
Grace and Peace,
Andrew
PS--Did you copy off my ballot?
I think it's a decent trade off.
Shhhh.... I didn't want you to tell the whole world that you aren't coming. I've been growing facial hair for six weeks planning to impersonate you at the convention.
You'll be missed at the Convention but I'm thankful for your opportunity to minister in Nigeria. I pray God will bless that ministry.
-- Todd
Fantastic opportunity.
Take plenty of pics. After I got my MCM at Southern, I had paperwork filled out to teach music at that seminary --- but the Lord had other plans! I think about Nigeria often!
WOW.. that is impressive... I really didn't realise bart could grow facial hair ;)
Steve
I'm on mission in Ontario Village, Belize this week, but I did get to attend the convention last week. Among the highlights for me:
Al Gilbert
Danny Akin
David Dockery
Witnessing Al Mohler's radio live and having him take my question.
Receiving free Tabasco sauce at the Midwestern booth.
Receiving a "Celebrating 100 years" pennant at the SWBTS booth.
Winning a "Cooperative Program" t-shirt (no joke!)
Playing the Wii at the WMU booth (again, no joke!)
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