Brook Hills College – Blog

  1. David Platt’s Sermon at SBC

    June 17, 2011 by Britten Taylor

    In case you missed our Pastor’s sermon this week at the Southern Baptist Convention, you can hear it here…

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  2. Read, Recognize, Respond and Relish…here and there!

    June 14, 2011 by Britten Taylor
    Imagine yourself as a Christ-follower in a hostile Muslim context. If you obey Matthew 28:18-20 and are intentionally making disciples among your Muslim friends/neighbors, you put yourself under the threat of imprisonment and deportation. And if your Muslim friend/neighbor happens to respond in faith to the Gospel, they are under the threat of imprisonment and/or death. This is the reality for many of our brothers and sisters in the 10/40 Window. 

    In fact, this is the reality for my friend who recently asked for prayer via email regarding a few Muslim men he has built a friendship with over the past few weeks. He has lived in an Islamic country for several years and recently had the opportunity to share the Gospel with these Muslim men.  The men are now considering the claims of the Gospel and reading portions of the Word in their language that he has given them. The challenge is that he ministers in a closed country and his friends are forbidden to respond to the Good News of Jesus Christ with repentance and faith.  He could be imprisoned, and they could loose their lives, all because the Good News was shared, and they believed that Jesus Christ was made “to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God”. (2 Corinthians 5:21)

    As these guys are reading portions of the New Testament, my friend pleaded that we pray in several ways. He asked that we pray that these men would…

    +READ the Word!
    +RECOGNIZE the Word is from God – revelation!
    +RESPOND in obedience to the Word– the idea of being discipled INTO the Kingdom
    +RELISH the Word – really hunger and thirst for the Word.

    I prayed this prayer for these men. With a heavy heart, I begged God for these four crucial things to take place in their lives, and that it would be mulitplied a thousand times over in their closed, hostile, Muslim country.

    As I prayed this prayer for these men, I was struck with a thought…”Why am I not asking God to do this here in my own city?” Don’t get me wrong, I in no way want to distract us from the urgent need for the Gospel to go forth among the unreached peoples of the earth. But I also recognize that one of the most strategic ways of seeing the Gospel reach the unreached peoples is actually reaching more of the reached peoples.

    I love how our Pastor said it in Radical Together…

    We and our churches never have to choose between impacting people with the Gospel locally and impacting people globally. Disciple-making frees us from having to make that choice. As we lay down our lives to multiply the Gospel in the context of intentional relationships where we live, we are always doing it ultimately for the spread of the gospel far beyond where we live. And if we are faithful to Jesus’ command in the Great Commission, we will always be living and longing for the spread of the Gospel to all people groups. (91)

    Disciple-making is not just a call to a gifted few but a command for the entire body of Christ. It also is not just about seeing Christ-followers grow deeper in their walk with Christ but seeing those outside of the Kingdom of God repent of their sin and place their faith in Jesus Christ. Disciple-making is distinctively evangelistic, and, as we share the Gospel broadly, we should be asking God to accomplish His work through His Word!

    So let’s sow the Gospel broadly this summer, and then ask God to do what only He can do: use the Word of God to do the Work of God!

     

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  3. 200 Countries, 200 Years, 4 Minutes

    June 8, 2011 by Britten Taylor

    A remarkable video from Hans Rosling and BBC…

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  4. Radical Together

    June 6, 2011 by Britten Taylor

    I just finished up our Pastor’s second book, Radical Together, and I cannot commend this book enough to college students. It will no doubt encourage, convict, and stir you to consider how to best give your one life to the one thing God has created you for, namely His glory among the nations!

    If you and I want our lives to count for God’s purpose in the world, we need to begin with a commitment to God’s people in the church. God has called us to lock arms with one another in single-minded, death-defying obedience to one objective: the declaration of his gospel for the demonstration of his glory to all nations. This is God’s design for his people, and it is worth giving our lives to see it accomplished. It is worth it for billions of people who do not yet know that Jesus is the grave conquering, life-giving, all-satisfying King. And it is worth it for you and me, because we were made to enjoy the great pleasures of God in the context of total abandonment to his global purpose. (pg 5)

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