All According to God's Plan

All According to God's Plan PDF

Author: Alan Scot Willis

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Published: 2014-07-11

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13: 0813149398

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Southern Baptists had long considered themselves a missionary people, but when, after World War II, they embarked on a dramatic expansion of missionary efforts, they confronted headlong the problem of racism. Believing that racism hindered their evangelical efforts, the Convention's full-time missionaries and mission board leaders attacked racism as unchristian, thus finding themselves at odds with the pervasive racist and segregationist ideologies that dominated the South. This progressive view of race stressed the biblical unity of humanity, encompassing all races and transcending specific ethnic divisions. In All According to God's Plan, Alan Scot Willis explores these beliefs and the chasm they created within the Convention. He shows how, in the post-World War II era, the most respected members of the Southern Baptists Convention publicly challenged the most dearly held ideologies of the white South.

Baptist Mission Portraits

Baptist Mission Portraits PDF

Author: John Allen Moore

Publisher: Smyth & Helwys Publishing, Inc.

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 190

ISBN-13: 9781880837795

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Moore explores the inspirational lives of William Carey, Luther Rice, Lott Cary, William Knibb, Adoniram Judson, and John Everett Clough in this rich Baptist mission resource for study groups and programs.

MISSIONS IN THE DARK SOIL

MISSIONS IN THE DARK SOIL PDF

Author: ALLEN TIMILEHIN OLATUNDE

Publisher: Africa-GLOW Missions Connect, Nigeria

Published:

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9785238768

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The book is an historical work that reflects on the good, the bad and the ugly experiences of a Southern Baptist missionary, T. J. Bowen and the relevant applications for African missions and contemporary missionaries. The significance of the study lies on the ability to pioneer missions among the people of strange culture, language, colour and values successfully. This book researches into problems observable in the life and works of Bowen that need clarification. They are problem of contextualizing mission, developing means and strategy for language barriers, mission funding and support, neglecting education as mission tool and ill-health challenges of missionaries which usually truncate dreams. This book, however, interacts with Nigerian Baptist Mission under GMB and her relationship with local churches on how to strengthen missionaries with SWOT Analysis. This book recommends suggested ways for African mission boards and agencies to be pragmatic in strategic making, be aware of the psychological welfare of her missionaries and provide a health insurance scheme for serving missionaries. When Mission Board and local churches hold hands together, missionaries will strive better on the field. Mission is still young in Africa dark soil, we only need men, methods and materials to grow gospel as God increases the open-doors for mission.