G3 Conference 2019 Notes and Thoughts Post #2

I don't think I need to say anything besides these statements from Mr. Washer. That was an extremely powerful message! (Forgive the formatting. I fought it tooth and nail, but the third point didn't want to align. :) )

Check out the g3conference.com in the near future for conference footage to hear this message.

Paul Washer-

The more you trust in the arm of the flesh, the less you will see of the power of Almighty God.

I. Sola Scriptura

   A. 2 Timothy 3:16 (All scripture is sufficient).

   B.  Is my life, my practice, my personal life, my evangelism…is it all being done according to the scriptures?

   C. 1 Timothy 3:13

    D. How can you know that you are conducting yourself rightly in the house of God?

    E. We have to follow the pattern for the economy of God PRECISELY!

    F.   The men of the church strip the church of her "white linens" and paint her face and dress her up as a prostitute in order to parade her in front of carnal men in order to draw them back into the church.

**Missions is the leaders of one biblical church sending out other leaders to plant more biblical churches.

    G. What part of everything you are should be “exported” and what part of you should be quarantined?

    H. The doctrine of what we believe determines the state of our eternity!

    I. What do you do every day in order to discipline yourself to godliness?

    J. Give me a holy man any day than an academic man without holiness!

II. The doctrine of the local church.

           A. Have you studied the teaching and types of prayer meetings that SHOULD BE in a local church?    If you have not done this, then PLEASE DO NOT GO TO THE MISSION FIELD!

           B. The Great Commission is primarily a doctrinal, scriptural, and didactic endeavor to reach people with the gospel. It is more than just preaching and teaching.

           C. There will be countless missionaries who disagree with these concepts.

           D. You cannot build all of your church unity around missions. You can’t do that! You have to build around the TRUTH and then you go out and do missions!

           E. If only ALL of the Bible believing Christians would take a stand, then the rest of the world will wake up and listen!

           F. Giving too much attention to the Gospel in church will put a damper on the programs of the church.

           G. We need men who won’t just talk about the truth but say that they will live it, talk about it, and have churches who SPEAK it!

           H.  2 Corinthians 8

            I. 2 Timothy 2:2

1.       Elder qualified men, spiritual men, praying for and investing their lives into other men who are aspiring to the office of overseer. Pouring their lives into those people so that they will become user qualified and go forth into ministry.

2.       Pastors are the highest office. The most important position.

3.       Pastoring is more than expository preaching.

a.       Visiting hospitals

b.       Discipling

c.       Making Phone calls

d.       But most importantly, the training of men.
III. What is a missionary?

A.      The word missionary isn’t in the Bible.

B.      A lot depends on how we define missionary.

C.      Never in the history of the church have there have been such widely divergent views and radical strategies. The confusion proves that we are guilty of doing what is right in our own eyes.

1.IF there is one thing that God’s people are prone to do, “and everyone did what was right in their own eyes.”

2.“Man will invent.”

                  D. Every time you call someone a missionary, you are calling them an apostle.

                             1. “Missionarios” came from the term “Apostolos”.

                  E. Jesus was God’s Apostle (defined as missionary: modern term.)

                  F. The term apostle is also used in the new testament who were sent out by the churches as official representatives, emissaries, and laborers for edification by the churches on the mission field.

                            1. They were sent out as “messengers”

                            2. Sent out under direct authority of a local church or collection of churches to carry out a specific task or message.

**Should we use the term missionary?

We should use messengers. Messengers of the churches. Emissaries of the churches.

Our use of the term missions destroys the meaning of a messenger’s goal.

Don’t just say that you want to go to the mission field because “you just want to do something”! We need those who KNOW the WORD OF GOD!