Friday, 1 May 2015

3ABN IS A GREAT TOOL: Are you selling it?



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3ABN is one of the most powerful tools for Mission with which we are truly blessed to have in Barbados. Are you utilizing it effectively? Share this magazine with a friend today and invite them to watch.

Thursday, 9 April 2015

Knowledge


Mission First Radio has added Ellen White’s books in audio to its growing library of audio files suitable for streaming and/or downloading for your listening pleasure on the go.  Click here for a sample of these podcasts.  Visit Mission First Radio to access the entire archive.

"A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength." Proverbs 24:5.

Put your highest power into your effort. Call to your aid the most powerful motives. You are learning. Endeavor to go to the bottom of everything you set your hand to. Never aim lower than to become competent in the matters which occupy you. Do not allow yourself to fall into the habit of being superficial and neglectful in your duties and studies; for your habits will strengthen and you will become incapable of anything better. The mind naturally learns to be satisfied with that which requires little care and effort, and to be content with something cheap and inferior. There are, young men and young women, depths of knowledge which you have never fathomed, and you are satisfied and proud of your superficial attainments. If you knew much more than you do now, you would be convinced that you know very little.

God demands of you vigorous and earnest intellectual efforts, and with every determined effort, your powers will strengthen. Your work will then always be agreeable, because you will know that you are progressing. You can either become accustomed to slow, uncertain, irresolute movements, so much so that the work of your life will not be one-half what it could be; or, your eyes fixed upon God, and your soul strengthened by prayer, you can overcome a disgraceful slowness and a dislike for work, and train your mind to think rapidly and to put forth strong efforts at the proper time.

God has given the human mind great power, power to show that the Creator has endowed man with ability to do a great work against the enemy of all righteousness, power to show what victories may be gained in the conflict against evil. To those who fulfill God’s purpose for them will be spoken the words, “Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things.”

Source: http://www.revivalandreformation.org/content_series/1/entries/1584#.VSa4Z_nF-Sp

Wednesday, 8 April 2015

Transformation


So what are you listening to these days?

Mission First Radio just added the podcasts from the Loma Linda University Church to its growing library of audio files suitable for streaming and/or downloading for your listening pleasure on the go.  Click here for a sample of these podcasts.  Visit Mission First Radio to access the entire archive.

And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God. Romans 12:2.

Will men and women consider how God regards the creatures He has made? He formed man’s mind. We do not think one noble thought that does not come from Him. He knows all the mysterious workings of human mind; for did He not make it? God sees that sin has debased and degraded man, but He looks upon him with pity and compassion; for He sees that Satan has him in his power.

All true reformation begins with soul-cleansing. It is by the washing of regeneration and the renewing of the mind through the power of the Holy Spirit, that a change is wrought in the life.

By beholding Christ we become changed. If the mind dwells upon temporal things constantly, these things become all-absorbing, affecting the character, so that God’s glory is lost sight of and forgotten. The opportunities that are within reach for them to become conversant with heavenly things, are overlooked. Spiritual life dies....
Make God your entire dependence. When you do otherwise, then it is time for a halt to be called. Stop right where you are, and change the order of things.... In sincerity, in soul-hunger, cry after God. Wrestle with the heavenly agencies until you have the victory. Put your whole being into the Lord’s hands soul, body, and spirit, and resolve to be His loving, consecrated agency, moved by His will, controlled by His mind, infused by His Spirit ... then you will see heavenly things clearly.

If we would permit our minds to dwell more upon Christ and the heavenly world, we should find a powerful stimulus and support in fighting the battles of the Lord. Pride and love of the world will lose their power as we contemplate the glories of that better land so soon to be our home. Beside the loveliness of Christ, all earthly attractions will seem of little worth. 
Source: http://www.revivalandreformation.org/content_series/1/entries/1583#.VSVN8_nF-Sp


Mission First - Barbados


Barbados For Christ & Vision One Million wrapped up today in a wonderful service in Trinidad with Evangelist Mark Finley, and thousands being baptised around the Inter-American Division of SDA (IAD) territory. To God be the glory!

Over the next several days it is expected that results from the various crusade sites will become clear and we hope to post them here. In the meantime, keep on praying for and supporting those crusades which have been extended by a week or so, and indeed also for those like at Speightstown - http://j.mp/1DKyoE5 - which are just now getting started.

One of the lessons of Barbados For Christ has been the need for refocussing the Church in the Age of Social Media on the importance and centrality of Mission. Clearly, something is wrong when the Church-sponsored site with the largest social media following manages to get through five weeks of the largest outreach effort by the Church in Barbados for a long time without once mentioning "Barbados For Christ" or anything to do with soul-winning. Something is clearly amiss when the lead church sponsoring what was supposed to be the largest tent effort never posted so much as a single photo of that effort on its Facebook Group page, but when a controversial incident arose way in Antigua, suddenly that gets precedence over everything else.

Barbados needs to refocus on the mission of the SDA Church - that of confronting men and women with the truth claims of the gospel of Jesus Christ as presented in the Three Angels Messages of Revelation Chapter 14. Consequently, and going forward, this site over the next several days will be re-branding itself in a rearguard and/or vanguard effort through social media to refocus the Church on its true mission and calling, and the urgency of doing so in the Age of Social Media.

Welcome "Mission First - Barbados!"

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