Great Commission Resurgence Task Force Report

The new and revised report from the Great Commission Task Force was made public this morning.

Click here to watch, read, and/or download the report.

So far, from what I have been able to thorougly skim, I love what I read. It makes me proud and excited (again!) to be a Southern Baptist.

I encourage you to take to heart what the task force recommends for everyone within the SBC.

Consider the challenge(s) given to individual families in the report:

Challenges for Individual Families

- Emphasize biblical gender roles with believing fathers taking the lead in modeling Great Commission Christianity and taking the primary responsibility for the spiritual welfare of their families.

- Recognize that parents have the primary responsibility of educating their children and helping them to cultivate a Christian worldview way of thinking and living.

- Build gospel saturated homes that see children as a gift from God and our initial mission field. Consider, in this context, the vital ministries of adoption and orphan care.

- Make prayer for and the evangelism and discipleship of children a family priority that begins with parents and is assisted by local churches.

- Develop strategies as a family for praying for, serving, and sharing the gospel with neighbors, coworkers, and others with whom family members come into regular contact.

- Adopt a different unreached people group each month and pray as a family 1) for IMB missionaries working with the people group, 2) for the conversion, baptism and discipling of countless individuals within the people group, and 3) for the establishment of biblical churches among the people group.

- Adopt a different North American church plant each month and pray as a family 1) for the church’s leadership team, 2) for the conversion, baptism and discipling of countless individuals in the church’s region, and 3) for the birthing of future church plants from the church.

- Spend a family vacation participating in a local church or association sponsored mission trip.

- Consider setting up a mission’s savings account for each of your children that would enable them to spend six months to a year in a North America or International Missions context soon after graduating from high school.

That's what I call being RADICALLY INTENTIONAL as a family!!!!

I love it! Let's do it!