Below is a link to an article posted at the International Mission Board's website (http://www.imb.org/). It is a summary of Dr. Jerry Rankin's report on the IMB at this week's SBC. The article is linked below, but please observe some key quotes by Rankin here:
"Is it more important to maintain our institutions, sustain church programs and support a denominational structure centered on 5 percent of the world's population that is already well-churched than to send the missionaries God is calling out of our own churches to reach the 95 percent of the world who are deprived of an opportunity to know Jesus?"
"Is it really a problem with the economy or rather distorted priorities and hearts that are not aligned with our Lord's passion to be glorified among the nations and peoples of the world?"
"Are we saying that 5,000 missionaries are enough...to evangelize the rest of the world while we support over 100,000 pastors, church staff, and denominational workers in our own country?"
"We can examine our priorities, restructure an outdated bureaucracy, support the missionaries being called to reach our world or allow our hearts to become hardened, our future to decline, our influence to crumble and our witness fade into insignificance as we focus on maintaining the status quo and strive to sustain that which is increasinly irrelevant."
"Let us not dilute the Great Commission to mean less than our Lord's mandate to disciple the nations and to be His witness to the ends of the earth."
Wow. God help us.
Click here to read the entire article.
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