The quote below is from David Platt’s sermon to the Southern Baptist Convention this past Wednesday morning. You can watch the sermon in its entirety by going by clicking here. Then you will click ‘Watch Streaming Video’ and find his sermon by the day and time. These are timely words the Church needs to hear:
God raise up a church that is no longer content to wait for a tingly feeling to go down our spine to cause us to rise up and do what we have already been commanded to do. We don’t have to ask questions. He wants the gospel and the glory of God in all nations. So what happens not just when missionaries, but when pastors, music ministers, and staff members, members of churches, accountants, and engineers and teachers, and lawyers, and doctors, and stay-at-home moms… what happens when we all realize that we were all created for and commanded to accomplish a global mission? What happens when we begin to look at our houses, and our cars, and our stuff, and our lifestyles in light of the radical needs around the world? What happens when we begin to trust boldly in the name of Christ and we commit our lives to telling the nations that he is great? When that happens, the lost find a savior, the poor find a helper, and the church finds a God who satisfies more deeply than any and everything else this world has to offer us. God may it be so!
