Posts by Pastor Gerry Nable, Bethany Baptist Church

To be a missions-minded church is to embrace what the Lord designed the church to be- the agency through which the Great Commission can be fulfilled.  The mission of the church is basically to “mobilize” or “send forth”, to reach out by winning souls for Christ, then to baptize or have newly-saved individuals identify with Christ’s body through Scriptural baptism, followed by the teaching or observance of the whole counsel of God. This is essentially why the church is here as Christ’s representative body. The Lord Jesus Christ is not anymore bodily present, but He has His representative body which is empowered by His Holy Spirit.