“I thank God for this theme. I love anytime the word of God is being explained and revealed to us compelled to share the gospel and to be ministers of reconciliation,” said Dewayne Rembert, pastor of Flatline Church at Chisholm.
The love of Christ should be all that Christians need to be compelled to help fulfill the Great Commission, observed an Alabama Baptist campus minister.
John Brock observed that Colossians 1:18 is the only place in the New Testament where the word “preeminence” is used to describe Jesus. Another translation uses “first place” instead of preeminence, he added.
“When you’ve ministered in the power of the Holy Spirit, you will never want to minister in any other way,” affirmed Richard Blackaby during the Alabama Baptist Pastors Conference on Nov. 10.
In today’s world the word “missions” has become a vague term, says Zane Pratt, who served as a Southern Baptist missionary with the International Mission Board for 23 years.
Mississippi pastor Kyle Reno opened the Alabama Baptist Pastors Conference on Nov. 10 at Whitesburg Baptist Church in Huntsville by reminding ministers of the gospel that “there is nothing like a praying pastor.”