Welcome back to the podcast.

The BCS Pastors Conference finishes up today here on Wednesday, and as I mentioned

last time, earlier in January, Pastor John traveled to Louisville to speak at the annual

Cross Conference.

And one of the sessions was a panel discussion hosted by David Platte, and he was joined

with Pastor John and International Evangelist Mech Stiles and Pastors The BD Annual Buile

and Kevin D. Young.

There was a second clip I wanted to share on this podcast, and on this one, the topic

is the place of the local church in global missions, and that connection is really important

to get this.

And here's David Platte, himself, talking about one of the major themes behind the Cross

Conference.

One other that's a big emphasis among us, and anybody else who you'll see on the stage,

is the role, central role of the local church in the Great Commission.

So these are Pastors, have served as Pastor.

Everybody who's come up here is either Pastoring a church, is part of church planting specifically,

so we don't see the Great Commission disconnected from the church.

It's a mission given to the church.

Mack, you spoke on that earlier today.

Can you summarize in a minute or two just what you shared earlier today about the role

of the local church?

The local church is the embassy of God on earth, the platform for which the Lord God advances

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