The Invincible Power of Joy for World Missions: For Cowards, Consumers, and the Comfortable
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Desiring God
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🗓️ 17 January 2019
⏱️ 54 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The following resource is from desiring God.org. |
| 0:04.0 | As I have pondered over the age range in this conference with a huge group of younger people |
| 0:12.0 | and a modest group in the middle and a few people like me at the |
| 0:17.7 | upper end. What has come to the front of my mind is that there are peculiar obstacles for each of those |
| 0:30.5 | groups to global missions, obstacles to full, red-blooded, |
| 0:39.2 | unintiminated, uncompromising engagement in world evangelization. |
| 0:47.0 | This is a conference about missions and for me that means you being mobilized either |
| 0:57.6 | senders or goers to reach the least reach peoples in the world. |
| 1:06.0 | These obstacles that I have in mind, three of them, |
| 1:09.0 | may not be the biggest ones for you or in your generation, but they're the ones that I feel burdened |
| 1:17.7 | to address in which I believe God has given me a word for. |
| 1:28.0 | So I want to begin by naming the obstacles |
| 1:32.2 | for each of those generations, the younger, the middle and the older, and then |
| 1:39.2 | direct your attention to a passage in Philippians where God will address those obstacles and he will show |
| 1:46.4 | that the invincible power of joy is the means of overcoming those three obstacles. |
| 1:57.8 | Number one, I'm thinking here of the youngest of the youngest. |
| 2:03.6 | In other words, the 18 to 40 group, |
| 2:05.9 | I'm thinking toward the front end, |
| 2:10.9 | a new form of politically correct cowardice has appeared in the last five or ten years. |
| 2:21.0 | It takes the form of opposing those whose message you don't like by claiming |
| 2:30.2 | that you don't feel safe when they talk. |
| 2:35.0 | In other words, you protect yourself |
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