phillips woodrow marjorie 1975 san jose bc
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Confirmation
has
been
received
from
Woodrow
Phillips,
President
of
San Jose Bible College,
that
he will participate
in
a Mass
Communications forum
in Santiago,-
Chile,
S.A,
dwraag
May 1 8
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26, 1975* The purpose of the meeting
is
to analyse
the
mass
communications work
of the Church of
Christ.,
Christian
Church missionaries in Chile.
The Chilean Bible
Corresponf^ence
program has more than
23,000 students enrolled in its four courses. The entire pro
gram consists of a four-step plan: 1 contact; 2 conversion;
3
new
church
establishment;
and
i | . ) leadership training. The
program has
just recently moved into
the
second
and
third
phases.
Besides analysing
the
first step (contact). Brother
Phillips
will
devote one week to discussion with the missionaries
about how to attain successful
results
in
the remaining
three
phases
of
the
program. If other missionaries or recruits are
interested
in
participating in the seminar, or would like to
know more about
the Chilean
work, write to:
Centro de Difusi n Cristiana
Casilla I I 4 . O I 7 Correo 21
Santiago,
Chile
S.A,
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W h e r e
W e A r e
T o d a y
I n
M i s s i o n s ?
- W o o d r o w
P h i l l i p s
9 0 0 \ v o r d s
Every
great
missions movement tends to reach a plateau, remain
at that level for serveral
decades
and then
decline.
Since the close of
World
War
II
our Direct Support Missions move
ment has been one
of the
most rapidly expanding adventures in world
evangelism among
Bible
believing people.
Mow,we are
at a plateau*of
achievement i n fields entered, missionaries supported, churches es
tablished, benevolent work underwritten
and converts
reached with the
gospel.
The easy course is to be'isatisfied
with
consoliding this tremen
dous growth. After three decades of almost uninterrupted
advance,
the temptation
is
to see the mounting costs of missionary
recruitment,
training and commissioning
as
well as the
logical
case formore
of
the
work being done by the national
-coverts
in their own fields, and to
use
these
facts as our
psychological
brake
against-futther outreach.
W e - as
a
people enlisted as disciples under the commission
of
Jesus Christ, dare not let these.achievements deter us from even great
er mission
thrust.
Our
crossroads
of
missionary destiny is
either
already here
or
immediately in bur
future.
To count the cost
for
world mission and
curtail
our expansion because
of
the high
investment
in lives, prayers
- a n d funds it requires
is
to leave
the
task unfinished at the one moment
in history v d i e n
globe
girdling
evangelism
is
possible.
We may
argue
for
better teaching
of
the conVerts already
won.
We
see the need for more benevolent
v / o r k
in medicine, orphan
and aged care
as vital
in the
fields already
opened.
New printing ventures and more
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tive
strategy
for expansion.
Never
have so many
seriously
searched
again through the Scriptures, early church
history, great
missionary
movements of the past and peoples
movements
of today to see patterns
for
church
g r o v / t h .
Never
have trained minds
committed to
mission worked
so
hard
to
borrow a l l that i s good a n d h e l p f u l
from
every mental discipline men
know to apply their
gleanings
to gospel proclamation,
V / e
are at an
apex
in mission interest and involvement in all
evan
gelical Christendom, The free exchange of knowledge, ideas and
results
has brought a unity in Christ on
our mission
fields,never
before
pos
sible, Without
compromise
of our commitment
to the New
Testament we
are crossing old lines of separation
that
can
only
lead to further
oneness
in
the
gospel message and
mission work,
Bible translation is rapidly reducing the number of tribes and
people
who cannot
be
taught
the
Word
of
God
in
their
own
tongue
i n
their own culture.
Now is the day
when the church can triumph
by
the power of
the
Holy Spirit
in
His
Word and in His people.
We stand
at
the threshhold of
opportunity
for church growth un
precedented
in 20
centures
of
Christian history. It is a day to put
all
we are
and
all we are
provided
by
His
grace into the missionary ad
vance that
can
change the
history of the
human family.
The
technical
toolfe,
the travel
opportunities,
the financial
re
sources, the
potentialimanpower
are
all ours
to marshall for
world
wide sharing
of
the good news .
Today is
the day of
salvation
for all
and
a
challenge we can
meet
to bring
glory
to God and our Savior
Jesus Christ,
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The
t i m e t o
act
i s u p o n u s . It
c a n n o t
w a i t
for
n a t i o n a l
conveo"
t i o n s
o r
e v e n
c h u r c h b o a r d
a c t i o n .
T h i s r e n e w a l
m u s t
b e g i n
w i t h
e v e r y
individual disciple.
W e are, r i g h t n o w , at
t h e
m o m e n t of o u r g r e a t e s t
d e c i s i o n
a s a
B i b l e
p e o p l e .
W e c a n
m o v e
f o r v ^ a r d i n f a it h t o b e c o me t h e
g r e a t e s t
v e h i c l e f o r w o r l d m i s s i o n t h a t h a s e v e r b e e n
k n o v / n
o r w e c a n p l e a s a n t l y ,
b u s i l y s t a g n a t e
o n o u r
h i g h p l a t e a u o f c u r r e n t
e v a n g e l i s t i c
a c h i e v e m e n t j
s l o w l y a t r o p h y a n d
f a i l
t o
m e e t t h e h i g h c a l l i n g t o w o r l d w i d e
m i s
sion
that
is the open door we face NOW
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