Did you miss our livestream with the Banks? Watch it here:
Links For Topics Mentioned:
- Read Romans 12
- Read Matthew 28
- Learn about the Banks
Quotes From the Broadcast:
- “MPD is ministry partner development. As Rebecca and I gear up for the field and for serving as global workers with WorldVenture, we go through this process of building ministry partners. There’s a lot of different ways that people partner with us in our ministry. I really kind of sum it up in three different categories. First and foremost, we need prayer, just prayer that we would be obedient to God’s will, obedient to what God is doing our lives. Secondly, connecting us with others that might be interested in hearing about our vision and mission of what we’re doing and how that plays into the Great Commission. And then finally, the aspect of financial partnership. So, it’s very broad.”
- “I was lucky to have parents that walked through the gospel with me daily and constantly pointed me to this idea that each and every person needs a Savior.”
- “I think that sometimes in the West this thing has happened, especially in Europe, in North America, where we have our academic study of scripture, and we have studied that well. But sometimes it gets almost divorced from this actual practical application of what we’re learning theologically as we develop theologically, then implementing that as practitioners, so to speak, in our everyday lives. So not just divorcing, you know, the academic from the daily practical, I would say marks of discipleship, but actually bringing those two things together and realizing that it’s fruitful. So, at the location that we intend to serve in the Philippines, really, truly bringing those two things together and not just be, you know, cognitive thinkers, but doers of God’s word.”
- “About 50% of IGSL students are from the Philippines, the other 50% are from large areas across the 10/40 window. Speaking about unreached parts of Asia… so they have students from Myanmar, Bangladesh, India, even China and South Korea, so that the population is truly dynamic and diverse. You have a lot of cultures mingling and intercultural dynamics that you encounter at the school.”
- “I would define discipleship as the process of helping someone walk more deeply with the Lord, walk more deeply in terms of how they understand Scripture…walk more deeply in how they’re living out the Christian life, kind of the ethical side of the Christian life and the call to make disciples themselves.”
- “So, there’s that very barrier of cultural Catholicism. But I would say, especially with younger individuals, there may just be a general apathy. I see it with my generation Gen Z and even Gen Alpha. It’s not so much a religious heritage as it is an indifference to religion itself. So, getting over the barrier of saying, ‘No, I actually think you were made in the image of the Creator’ and in finding different access points.”
- “But how do you leverage that as something to speak into the fact that Christ is the God of peace, that he speaks to our deepest fears, deepest anxieties, that the triune God heals the deepest depression, the deepest wounds of anxiety.”
- “I think you go into the process of MPD thinking that it’s about you and God gets to shift that paradigm very quickly. One of the things that I think I’ve cherished the most about are ministry partner appointments, so to speak, is that they’re highly relational. And oftentimes you go into an appointment with the thoughts, fears and anxieties of, ‘Oh, how might this person build into my ministry? How might they support what my wife Rebecca and I are doing?’ And then you realize that meeting, that coffee, that meal, that coming to their home was actually something that was meant to benefit them more than you.”