Keck Avenue Baptist Church
Keck Avenue Baptist Church
Monday, September 06, 2010
Be Real For Jesus
          
     
 
 
 
                
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
            
 
What is the Acts 1:8 Challenge?
Today's cutting-edge churches are discovering a new passion for ministry and unprecedented involvement from members of all ages. Pastors and church leaders are embracing God's heart for the world and transforming their churches into worldwide mission centers. When a church accepts the Acts 1:8 Challenge, it commits to fulfull Jesus' last spoken words on earth by taking the gospel to their Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria and the ends of the earth.
The eight Kingdom-Growing Responses of the Challenge (below) are designed to encourage a church to be intentional in areas of missions involvement under the leadership and power of the Holy Spirit. 
 
KINGDOM-GROWING RESPONSES:
The following eight Kingdom-Growing Responses to the Acts 1:8 Challenge should not be seen as a “checklist,” but as areas of missions involvement in which a church grows under the leadership and power of the Holy Spirit:
  • Prepare—empowering a designated leader of missions and developing mission teams, strategies, and plans to take the gospel to our community, state, continent and world.
  • Learn—bringing mission awareness and interaction to the entire church body, training members for service and connecting them to missionaries and mission needs.
  • Pray—asking God for kingdom perspective and worldwide vision, interceding for Christian workers and unevangelized peoples.
  • Give—increasing the financial support of the Cooperative Program and other SBC cooperative missions.
  • Go—enabling a growing number of members to directly participate in short-term, long-term and marketplace opportunities to minister and spread the gospel beyond our church’s walls.
  • Tell—involving an increasing number of members in intentional, culturally-relevant evangelism.
  • Send—providing members with opportunities to hear and respond to God’s call to vocational mission service.
  • Multiply—participating in church planting and facilitating church planting movements.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
            
     The philosophy behind Southern Baptist disaster relief efforts has been summed up in the phrase, "A cup of cold water in Jesus name." We are following the example of Jesus of Nazareth when He fed the 5,000 and the 4,000, and His teachings in the parable of the Good Samaritan and Matthew 25:32-46.
     Southern Baptist disaster relief is Christian love in action, meeting urgent needs of hurting humanity in crisis situations. Disaster response is meeting those needs with loving care and timely response as James 2:15-16 instructs us. There is no hidden agenda or ulterior motive.
     Following a tornado that swept through Newburgh, Indiana, more than 40 members of Keck Avenue responded by working on chain saw crews, clearing debris, praying with families who lost everything, and preparing thousands of meals with our friends from the Kentucky Baptist Convention.