What Is the Mission of the Church? with Brian DeVries
Life and Books and Everything
Clearly Reformed
4.6 • 635 Ratings
🗓️ 11 December 2024
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
Mission is one of those words that Christians use all the time. So are words like “missions” and missionaries.” But what do they mean? Is “mission” even the best word to use to describe what Christians should be doing in the world? In today’s episode, Kevin talks with fellow Michigander, Brian DeVries, about his new book You Will Be My Witnesses. Brian has led church planting teams in South Africa and currently serves as a pastor and a seminary president in South Africa. He’s written an insightful and helpful book calling church and Christians to be witnesses for Christ in speaking, in living, in defending the faith, in working for church growth, and in suffering well.
Chapters:
0:00 Sponsors
1:51 Introductions
11:29 The Book and the Mission of the Church
25:19 The Concept of Witness
32:15 Five Witness Themes
39:17 Sponsor Break
41:00 On Evangelizing
52:35 The Church As Hospital, Temple, Embassy, School, and Fortress
58:07 Stop DoingThis, Start Doing That
Books & Everything:
In the Lord I Take Refuge: 150 Daily Devotions Through the Psalms
Westminster Theological Seminary Biblical Language Certificate
You Will Be My Witnesses: Theology for God's Church Serving in God's Mission
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I want to mention a couple of our sponsors for LBE. |
| 0:12.3 | Grateful, as always, for Crossway and Desiring God. |
| 0:16.6 | Crossway, I want to mention this book by Dane Ortland. |
| 0:19.6 | In the Lord, I take refuge, 150 daily devotions through the Psalms. |
| 0:24.4 | You may have read one of Dane's books before, Gentle and Lolly, is his best known, and this is Dane applying the same scriptural, pastoral lens to look at the Psalms. |
| 0:36.8 | This book invites readers to experience the Psalms in a new way through heartfelt devotional |
| 0:41.4 | content written by Dane. |
| 0:43.9 | Each reading is short enough to read in just a few minutes. |
| 0:46.9 | We'll encourage a believer to be thoughtful and prayerful as you read through the great |
| 0:53.8 | songbook of the Bible, 150 Psalms. |
| 0:57.3 | Pick up a copy of In the Lord, I take refuge, and you can sign up crossway.org |
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| 1:08.5 | And then from Desiring God, join John Piper for Good News of Great Joy, a series of 25 |
| 1:16.2 | daily Advent meditations from the Solid Joy's podcast. |
| 1:21.5 | So this is a podcast starting December 1, so through this whole month leading up to Christmas, |
| 1:27.2 | these brief yet profound reflections |
| 1:29.0 | will help you savor the glory of Christ and the lasting treasure we have in Him. |
| 1:33.8 | So make this Advent season. |
| 1:35.1 | There's lots of good resources out there. |
| 1:37.2 | And this is a podcast. |
| 1:38.3 | You can subscribe to Good News of Great Joy in the Solid Joy's podcast from Desiring God |
| 1:43.6 | or download the free devotional |
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