Mark #5 – Evangelism

There is a lot of confusion about evangelism in the church today. Even within our own lives – we must admit, evangelism is not a subject we understand all too well. We come with baggage to church with our ideas of evangelism and sometimes our church adds even more baggage to our concepts. We’ve surfed the channels and crossed “Christian TV” and seen these men and women asking for money. We’ve heard their message of how God wants to bless your life – usually with wealth and health. If we avaoided those landmines, we can’t help but remember that one man/woman went before a large audience.

Billy Grham hasn’t helped church culture with his massive crusades. Sure, many people have come to faith by this man’s presentation of the Gospel and the efforts of the “crusade,” but once again, we’ve been blasted with this idea that one person must evangelize masses. Even our own church experience dictates that the Pastor give the Gospel and the “church” receives it. Baptist churches through the last century were notorious for Sunday after Sunday presenting the Gospel – demanding an altar call and hoping that some lost soul would walk the aisle or possibly raise his hand.

How to Post a Comment

I understand that technology can be hard for some of us. But that shouldn’t stop us from communicating. So here is a short guide to help some of you men in leaving a comment for others to read.

1. Choose a blog entry you’d like to comment on. At this point you can choose from Mark #1-3 and the “Welcome” entry. 

2. Click on the title of the Blog (e.g. “Mark #3 – The Gospel). This will take you to the whole blog post for you to read what we’ve written. 

3.  Read the full length of the article. This will give you an understanding of what we are talking about and what questions to answer and dialog over.

4.  Scroll down to the bottom of the article – all the way down to the bottom of the page. There you will find a rectangle/box. Click in that box and then you will see a flashing cursor. Here is where you can type, just like an email. Type away – answering questions, asking questions, telling other men what you found insightful about the chapter and how it impacted your life. All we ask is that your comment be edifying and in some way encouraging and appropriate for the content discussed.

5. When finished with your response, click on the “Submit” button in black below the text.

6. Finished. You have just digitally interacted with our church and have engaged other men in a discussion concerning our Men’s Ministry. 

Doesn’t that feel great? Now your experiences are shared with others. In addition, if you have a question – other men can post to address your concern. What a blessing.

May your comments pour forth and bless the socks off the church!

Mark #2 – Biblical Theology

Did you get a kick out of Bill?  I hope so. The fact is, many of us have been Bill before. When life is going well and according to plan, then God enters and seems to make you uncomfortable – God becomes “meddling.” But when times are hard and things “hurt” we want compassion. It seems often times, we want God to work according to our own timelines and our own fashions. Yet what we see in Scripture is that God is who He is and we are subject to Him, not the other way around.

As men, we desperately need to know who God is and what He is like, not what we want Him to be. In a day when all “truth” is being cast off as oppressive and the fashion is to form your own reality – we need a stable God who we can rely on. We need his story to liberate us from ourselves, our culture, and our sin. We need the Gospel not only of redemption, but of Truth, of Freedom so that we can truly enjoy God and bring the Light of who He is into a dark and soiled world.

Welcome…

Welcome to the Bethel Grace Baptist Church Men’s Ministry Page
This page has been formed for us to dialog back and forth an add input to our journey into the Men’s groups. Currently – We are undertaking the task of reading and discussing Nine Marks of a Healthy Church, by Mark Dever. Look forward each week to a posting on each chapter. You can add comments – add discussion input from your small group and hopefully build up the body here at BGBC so that we all might grow into maturity.
May God be praised by our electronic correspondence and may He be glorified by our lives in the coming weeks.

God Bless