Urbana Archives Joining God's Mission
We must decide yes or no.

As believers, we have two basic options . . . to feign a shallow faith while avoiding paying the price of obdience, or to join God's mission to love the loveless and act upon our faith in Jesus. (read more)

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"Whom shall I send?" asks the Lord. View Bruce Kuhn's reenactment of Isaiah 6:1-8 to discover the prophet's impassioned response.
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Peter learns not to call "profane" what God has "made clean" and the Gentiles hear the good news in Jess Delegencia's dramatization of Acts 10:1-48.

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"Can the Christian faith be relevant in a world of suffering?" Gary Haugen both asks and answers this question in tonight's testimony.

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In the video, Guidance: Listening to God, we learn that guidance is a matter of choosing to obey what God has said in his word.

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Ruth Padilla DeBorst shares her experience of joy, meaning and tragedy in her ministry in Latin America.

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Following Christ means taking up our cross. As the video, Persecution of the Church shows, there are more Christian martyrs today than at any time in history.

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Paul Borthwick delivers a compelling message of passion, servanthood, and sacrifice, as he calls Urbana worshippers to imitate the passion of Christ.
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Alex Gee emphasizes that not only is worship messy, but it is costly. He offers a prayer for clarity, direction, and obedience for all delegates, that they might know how to join God in missions.

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Barney Ford puts the Urbana offering in the context of the convention: Generosity as Worship, Because God first loved us.
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"Jesus went throughout Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom, and healing every disease and sickness among the people. "

Matthew 4:23 (NIV)

 
 

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