Panel Discussion on "What Is the Mission of the Church?"

For those of you in and around Jackson, we at First Baptist Church are having a panel discussion this Sunday at 5:00PM related to the recent book, What Is the Mission of the Church? Making Sense of Social Justice, Shalom, and the Great Commission, by Kevin DeYoung and Greg Gilbert.

Panelists include our own pastoral staff, as well as two of our church members who have served as pastors, Ben Mitchell and Todd Brady.  

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God, Give Us More Sending Churches

"The mark of a great church is not its seating capacity, but its sending capacity."

--Mike Stachura

Avoiding Both Escapism and Conformism

"The church has a double responsibility in relation to the world around us. On the one hand we are to live, serve and witness in the world. On the other hand we are to avoid becoming contaminated by the world. So we are neither to seek to preserve our holiness by escaping from the world nor to sacrifice our holiness by conforming to the world. Escapism and conformism are thus both forbidden to us (italics in original)."

--John Stott, The Radical Disciple