While speaking at Central Baptist, Binghamton, N.Y., David Strope presents a slide highlighting some of his travels as GARBC interim national representative.
Is Regular Baptist Ministries relevant in this cultural moment? Yes—for communities around the world yet live without hope and without God. Our belief in the gospel is the hope that we hold out to a lost world.
As individuals, are we relevant to God, and does our relevance to God move us to share the gospel in our communities? Are we, as Paul describes, “zealous for good works”?
When it comes to relevance, how we live matters.
“It is God who is working in you both to will and to work according to his good purpose. Do everything without grumbling and arguing, so that you may be blameless and pure, children of God who are faultless in a crooked and perverted generation, among whom you shine like stars in the world, by holding firm to the word of life” (Phil. 2:13–16, CSB).
We must let our attitudes reflect joy in Christ, with grumbling absent from our hearts. So see God at work, giving you both the desire and power to proclaim the wonderful Word of life.
—An excerpt from “The Relevance of Regular Baptist Ministries” by David E. Strope
- This article was published in the Summer 2023 Baptist Bulletin. Subscribe to the Baptist Bulletin or purchase a gift subscription. If you already subscribe to the print edition, sign up for free digital access.
David E. Strope is interim national representative of the GARBC.
