![]() To view this article as a PowerPoint, with pictures, click here. The Fighting Missionary The hero of the Battle of Waterloo, the Duke of Wellington, described Dr. David Livingstone as "The fighting parson." The Friend of Africa Jacob Wainwright, who had been rescued from slavery by Dr. Livingstone, described him as: "The friend of the African." Practical Christianity American journalist and explorer, Henry Morton Stanley, described Dr. Livingstone as: "A truly pious man - a man deeply imbued with real religious instincts. His religion… is of the true, practical kind, never losing a chance to manifest itself in a quiet, practical way - never demonstrative or loud. It is always at work, if not in deed, by shining example."
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![]() Have you experienced an encounter with the living God? Has God changed your life? Do you want to be used of God to change your world? “He who is not with Me is against Me and he who does not gather with Me scatters abroad.” Matthew 12:30 Be Equipped and Empowered For over 30 years, Frontline Fellowship has been organising Biblical Worldview Summits to encourage, equip and empower Bible-believing Christians to understand the times and to know what God’s people should do (1 Chronicles 12:32). ![]() To view this article as a PowerPoint, with pictures on Slideshare, click here. To listen to an audio of this article Click here Adoniram and Ann Judson had the distinction of being America’s first foreign missionaries. Adoniram Judson was the son of an austere Congregational minister. Adoniram learned to read by age three. From the beginning it was clear that he was destined for an exceptional life. Conversion When he entered Brown University on Rhode Island, he became enchanted with Deism and unbelief and slipped into a restless life. After graduation he wrote for the stage in New York. Then he chose to head West for the frontier. En route, at an Inn, he listened all night to a man dying in the next room. In the morning he was shocked to learn that the deceased man was one of his closest companions at college, an outspoken unbeliever who had opposed the Gospel of Christ vehemently. Adoniram knew that Jacob Eames was lost, but he also recognised that the same was true of himself. The West lost its allure, he turned his horse around and enrolled at a Theological Seminary. He was converted to Christ there, in 1808. ![]() To view this presentation as a PowerPoint with pictures, click here. To view this presentation as a video, click here. To watch a video of this lecture, click here. To listen to the audio of this message, click here. "The greatest missionary is the Bible in the mother tongue. It needs no furlough and is never considered a foreigner." William Cameron Townsend. From the Battlefield to the Mission Field William Cameron Townsend was one of the most influential mission leaders in the last century. Born in California in 1896, raised in a Presbyterian Church, he was inspired to join the Student Volunteer Movement after hearing missionary John Mott speak at Occidental College in Los Angeles. In 1917, as William Townsend prepared to join the army and participate in the war, he was challenged by a missionary on furlough to make the Great Commission his priority and go to the mission field instead of the battlefield. Does God Speak My Language? He departed for Guatemala, August 1917, with a Bible Association that sold Spanish Bibles in the field. He had almost completed his first year of service in Guatemala when one of the Kaqchikel Indians approached his table, looked at the Spanish Bible and asked "If your God is so smart, why doesn’t He speak my language?" Cameron was shocked to learn that although this man lived in Guatemala, he was one of the 200,000 Kaqchikel people who spoke no Spanish. The cutting comment of this Indian so troubled Cameron, that he dedicated the next 13 years of his life to translating the Bible into their language. ![]() To view this presentation as a PowerPoint with pictures, click here. To view this presentation as a video, click here. To listen to the audio of this message, click here Stepping Stones to Success Some years ago, George and Alec Gallup undertook an exhaustive investigation as to what makes some people more successful than others. Using the polling techniques that have made them famous, the brothers researched and wrote a book on Success. One of their conclusions: Successful people read. Foundations for Constructive Conversation George Gallup found that reading was essential because it "makes a person ready to converse… these people have a broad knowledge… and more information with which to make evaluations and decisions." Gym for the Mind Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. Books are minds alive on the shelves. By taking up one of these books and opening it, we can hear the voices of people far away in time and space. By reading we can hear great people of long ago speaking to us, mind to mind, heart to heart. ![]() To view the PowerPoint presentation of this article, with pictures, click here. To view the video of this article Click Here. To Listen to the audio of this article Click here. It is impossible! It cannot be done! Do not be ridiculous – what difference can one person make?” Have you ever encountered these reactions? Anyone who embarks on a challenging enterprise – especially those determined to end legal abortions, eradicate pornography, establish a Christian school or Christian Teacher Training College, stop the ongoing slave trade in Sudan, work for national Reformation and Revival or evangelize a Muslim nation – will encounter those people who seem to believe that they have “the gift of criticism” and “a ministry of discouragement!” ![]() Let the Whole Earth Hear His Voice Our Lord Jesus Christ focused on ethnolinguistic people groups in the Great Commission. When the Lord commanded us to make disciples of every nation, He used the word ethne, from where our word ethnic comes. The Great Commission is not merely to take the Gospel to every one of the 222 countries in the world, but to each of the, at least, 16,000 ethnolinguistic people groups in the world. "And Jesus came and spoke to them, saying, 'All authority has been given to Me in Heaven and earth. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptising them in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.'" Matthew 28:18-20 ![]() To view this presentation as a PowerPoint, click here. To view this presentation as a video, click here. To listen to the audio lecture as presented to the Reformation Society, click here. Christmas at the Battlefront On Christmas Eve 1914, a spontaneous cease-fire was observed across the whole of the Western Front. The Christmas Truce of the First World War, a singular event unprecedented in the history of warfare, initially received widespread media coverage in the New York Times of 31 December 1914, followed by British newspapers, such as the Mirror, The Illustrated London News, and the Times, which printed front page photographs of British and German troops mingling and singing Christmas carols. ![]() BIBLICAL WORLDVIEW SUMMIT 4 - 11 January 2021, Hermanus, Western Cape Watch and share Frontline's Biblical Worldview Summit Camp Video here. “See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the basic principles of this world rather than on Christ.” Colossians 2:8 The Biblical Worldview Summit practically prepares young people to deal with the issues, temptations and pressures of life. Young people are equipped with the facts and skills they need to deal with humanism, Hollywood and evolutionism. The Summit is primarily aimed at young adults (ages 13-30), but all ages are welcome. There will be a parallel children's programme for younger children. "They that wait upon the Lord will renew their strength. They will mount on wings like eagles." Isaiah 40:31 ![]() To listen to an audio account of this event on From the Frontline, click here. To listen to the audio of a related message, click here. The Vision The vision for the Grahamstown Evangelistic Mission grew out of our daily Bible Study and Prayer Fellowship, which I initiated in my first week of National Service at 6th South African Infantry Battalion. As the Bible Study grew and as we had the joy of leading fellow soldiers to Christ, we were praying over how to reach the next intake, which would come in July 1980. When I suggested organising an Evangelistic Mission during the first month of the next intake, there was excitement. But, inevitably, hard realities were discussed: Initially, there will be over 2,000 conscripts. How on earth could we reach them all? How could we possibly organise permission? What venue could possibly be big enough? Who would be the best Evangelist to invite? The Evangelist Well, I immediately knew that Rev. Roger Voke was the ideal man. Roger Voke was a dynamic Evangelist and the most challenging speaker that I had heard at Holiness Conventions at Glenvar Bible College and Keswick Conventions. Roger Voke had trained me in Evangelism Explosion. |
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