Does your view of God's sovereignty affect your participation in global missions?

It should.

Last week at Together for the Gospel, David Platt gave one of the most powerful messages I have heard on the topic of global missions. He taught from Revelation 5 that when we have a high view of God's absolute sovereign control over all things for all time, we will willingly lay down our lives for the sake of all nations coming to know Jesus. When we understand that God has a plan for the completion of the great commission and that the people in that plan were purchased by the blood of Jesus, then we will pray, give, and go differently. We will sacrifice what we want for the sake of Jesus' plan for the nations. We will pray with confidence that God will use our prayers to bring about the salvation of unreached people groups. We will give generously and sacrificially so that the gospel can be proclaimed to the ends of the earth. And we will go with zeal to bring the gospel even at the cost of our lives. Jesus is worthy! Let us as the church of Jesus Christ take seriously his call to go to the nations.



In Christ alone,
Josh

How does Eternity affect our daily life?

This is the question that was posed to the students at Ball State Cru when Whitney and I took a vision trip to our weekly meeting last week. We got in our car and drove for about 5 minutes to get to campus and get to our first weekly meeting of the year. We wanted to go and be refreshed with what God is doing at Ball State to encourage us to continue to persevere in support raising, get to 100% and get back to the job we love so much!
It was refreshing to say the least. Connecting with students, worshiping the Lord together and seeing the great work that God is doing definitely has propelled us forward to finish this season of support raising and get back to campus.

A good friend of mine gave the talk that night on eternity- what does that mean, what are the options for where we spend eternity, and how does that affect our lives today? Its a weighty topic with massive implications for our daily living. If life is simply 70 or maybe 80 years and then we will spend the rest of infinite time either with the Lord of glory or away from his presence suffering for our sins, than there could not be a more important topic. During the meeting a sort of "holy anxiety" overwhelmed me with the knowledge that there were students in that room who don't know Jesus and that their eternities are hanging in the balance. It renewed my passion to plead with the Lord to have mercy and to pour out his Spirit upon our movement in saving men and women from their sin and giving them eternal life through the death and resurrection of his son Jesus. Will you pray with us for these students and the countless others who were not at this meeting who do not know Jesus. That God would use us, this movement of students and the other staff to answer the call of God to proclaim the mercy of God in Jesus to this campus and that he would save many.

It also renewed in us a desire to answer the call of God on our life to reach the lost here at Ball State. Please pray with us that God will complete our support team so that we can answer the call of God on our life for His glory.
Thank you so much to our supporters, friends, and family who are behind us in this journey to get back to Ball State. You have taken eternity seriously and sacrificed time, energy and money to allow us to be here and serve the Lord. Thank you! It is significant and wonderful!

Here are all the talks from Indy CC, they are worth your time.


IndyCC 2011 Mike Erre - God is Big from Indy CC on Vimeo.




God is greater than your Past from Indy CC on Vimeo.




IndyCC 2011 God is greater than the Present from Indy CC on Vimeo.




IndyCC 2011 Bekele Shanko - God is greater than your Circumstances from Indy CC on Vimeo.

Here is a video recap of Indy CC 2012:

Indycc 2011 recap from Indy CC on Vimeo.

Did you miss Indycc 2011 or just want to remember something from the great week, Here is a recap of what you were a part of or what you missed.

Thank you for your prayers and support. We continue to wait on the Lord and His perfect timing to get back to campus. We had been praying for January 1st to be done with our support, but the Lord's plans were different. He knows best so we are eagerly waiting on God's timing. In the meantime we are diligently working daily, making the most of every moment to report back to Ball State as soon as possible. Please continue to pray for the sake of making Jesus known.