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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