{"id":817,"date":"2011-10-16T15:21:57","date_gmt":"2011-10-16T20:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=817"},"modified":"2014-12-16T11:21:26","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T17:21:26","slug":"from-here-to-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.georgefindley.com\/?p=817","title":{"rendered":"From Here to the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;What we need is not bigger and longer cars, more of material goods, but a spiritual awakening.&#8221; Matt. 28:16-20<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>I: One world and one gospel:<\/strong><br \/>\n1. 2,500,000,000 people.<br \/>\n2. Hiroshima made us to realize that we live in one world.<br \/>\n3. Christ included the whole world in the Christian witnessing. <strong>Acts 1:8<!--more--><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>II: Organized for the job.<\/strong><br \/>\n1. The local church and local field.<br \/>\n2. The associations and Judea.<br \/>\n3. The state convention and Samaria.<br \/>\n4. The convention and the whole world.<\/p>\n<p><strong>III: Cooperating through the organization.<\/strong><br \/>\n1. 23 State conventions cooperating.<br \/>\n2. Carrying out the great commission through: 30 hospitals, 6,000 beds, 2,000,000 patient days per yr. training over 3,000 nurses.<br \/>\na. 30 senior colleges and universities enrolling 33,000 students; 30 Jr. colleges and academics with 10,000 students. Over 5,000 ministerial students in training. 20 chilodren homes caring for 5,000 children.<br \/>\nb. 22 State papers carrying the message into more than 1,000,000 homes.<br \/>\nc. 6 seminaries with 4,000 students. 1,400 aged ministers and missionaries receiving some measure of relief.<br \/>\nd. 1,000 missionaries in the home field serving all races.<br \/>\ne. Over 1,000 missionaries in 32 countries of the world. 400 schools and colleges with 50,000 students.<br \/>\nf. 5 publication houses, 5 hospitals, 10 dispensaries, and 5 clinics.<\/p>\n<p><strong>IV: God&#8217;s hurry and the everlasting now. The king&#8217;s business.<\/strong><br \/>\n1. 4,630 people die every hour.<br \/>\n2. 1,543 are nominal Christians.<br \/>\n3. 3,087 stand before the judgment without Christ.<br \/>\n4. The atmosphere of haste runs thru the entire bible and intensifies in Revelations.<br \/>\n5. Men sometimes want God to hurry when they are in dire need.<br \/>\n6. Through all the ages God has been saying, &#8220;Behold, now is the accepted time; behold now is the day of salvation.&#8221; <strong>Cor. 2 6:2<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>V: From here to the world $20 a minute. (1 min. of silence).<\/strong><br \/>\n1. A good steward in my church. (No other place in the world is a dollar worth so much).<br \/>\n2. A good steward in my association.<br \/>\n3. Interested in my State convention.<br \/>\n4. A steward through the southern baptist convention to the world.<br \/>\n5. In 1954 we gave more than any other denomination in the U.S.A $52,926,600. In 1955 $58,202,000 (Less than 18% of total gift. We have an elephant).<br \/>\n6. Is such a program worthy of our all?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;What we need is not bigger and longer cars, more of material goods, but a spiritual awakening.&#8221; Matt. 28:16-20 I: One world and one gospel: 1. 2,500,000,000 people. 2. Hiroshima made us to realize that we live in one world. 3. Christ included the whole world in the Christian witnessing. 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