Stories tagged with: david platt

• Missionary retirees embark on new phase of service

  by Kate Gregory, posted Wednesday, May 06, 2015 (9 years ago)

  

  Photo by Lexie Bennett/IMB

  RICHMOND, Va. (BP) -- Most of the 56 missionaries the International Mission Board honored May 2 upon their retirement from full-time overseas service to emeritus status in the U.S. didn't start out as pastors or ministers on church staffs.

  Most were church members from diverse career fields who felt called to spread the Gospel around the world: an accounting clerk, advertising manager, attorney, beef producer, carpenters, critical care nurse, environmental control chemist, funeral home chaplain, house parents in a children's home, insurance agents, librarian, maintenance workers, physician, psychologist, radio announcer, rehabilitation counselor, teachers, truck driver and social workers. Read More

• FIRST-PERSON: A time of prayer and action for Nepal

  by David Platt, posted Thursday, April 30, 2015 (9 years ago)

  

  Photo by Lexie Bennett/IMB

  RICHMOND, Va. (BP) -- As soon as I heard news about the earthquake in Nepal, I immediately thought of the people I met and the faces I saw just over a year ago, when I was walking on trails and sides of mountains in the area where the quake hit.

  As I thought of the massive physical need that was already there on top of the massive spiritual need, and realized that an earthquake of this magnitude would have devastating effects across the region, I was drawn immediately to my knees. I cried out to God for His mercy and His might to be made known among the people in that area. Read More

• Platt simulcast moved

  by Staff, posted Monday, April 27, 2015 (9 years ago)

  BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (BP) -- A "security threat" against International Mission Board President David Platt's Secret Church event April 24 forced Platt's Radical ministry to move the simulcast from The Church at Brook Hills in Birmingham, Ala., to an undisclosed alternate location just hours before it began.

  The threat was a small taste of what "our brothers and sisters in Christ experience in other countries," Platt, former pastor of The Church at Brook Hills, said as the event opened according The Alabama Baptist. Threats cannot stop God's church and His Word from accomplishing their purposes, Platt noted, and that all attempts to hinder the church ultimately help spread the Gospel more. Read More

• FIRST-PERSON: Church planting to reach the nations

  by David Platt, posted Tuesday, March 10, 2015 (9 years ago)

  David Platt, president of Southern Baptists' International Mission Board, notes that the North American Mission Board's focus "to plant and revitalize churches" -- supported by the Annie Armstrong Easter Offering -- is key to spreading the Gospel "in this nation and to all nations." Read More

• WORLDVIEW: Counter culture with Gospel, Platt says

  by Erich Bridges, posted Tuesday, February 24, 2015 (9 years ago)

  

  RICHMOND, Va. (BP) -- It's hard not to offend people these days, especially if you actually believe what the Bible says about right, wrong, sin and salvation.

  Fearing the loss of friends, being dismissed as irrelevant -- or worse, being called intolerant -- many evangelicals jump on the bandwagon of popular social-justice causes, but lapse into uncomfortable silence on issues such as same-sex marriage and abortion. Some quietly abandon biblical positions on controversial issues altogether. Read More

• David Platt compelled by '5 desires' for IMB

  by Art Toalston, posted Wednesday, February 11, 2015 (9 years ago)

  

  Photo by Van Payne/IMB

  ORANGE BEACH, Ala. (BP) -- David Platt has "five desires that are driving me" as president of the International Mission Board.

  Platt, speaking to editors of Baptist state papers Feb. 10, listed the desires that are key to him at the six-month point of his leadership of Southern Baptists' overseas missions initiatives: Read More

• WORLDVIEW: First things first

  by Erich Bridges, posted Tuesday, January 13, 2015 (9 years ago)

  IMB leader David Platt's counsel for planning your year: Listen to God; then obey Him. "We can become so consumed with the material realm, so consumed thinking about our plans and our strategies," Platt says, "[that] we become blind to spiritual realities." Read More

• MISSIONS: Our obligation to the nations

  by David Platt, posted Tuesday, December 09, 2014 (9 years ago)

  IMB President David Platt, adding his voice to this year's prayer emphasis for international missions in the Southern Baptist Convention, writes that global mission is "the purpose for which each of us was created." Through the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering for International Missions, he writes, "you are fueling and sustaining a missions movement with eternal ramifications." Read More

• Platt: 'God saved you to send you'

  by Tess Rivers, posted Monday, November 10, 2014 (9 years ago)

  

  IMB Photo by Paul W. Lee

  OLIVE BRANCH, Miss. (BP) -- The reality of more than 2 billion unreached people living in more than 6,000 people groups is "totally intolerable," IMB President David Platt told an overflow crowd during an appointment service for 63 new IMB missionaries. Read More

• TRUSTEES: IMB's Platt unfolds five-point strategy

  by Tess Rivers, posted Monday, November 10, 2014 (9 years ago)

  

  IMB Photo by Paul W. Lee

  OLIVE BRANCH, Miss. (BP) -- IMB President David Platt outlined his five-point strategic plan while presiding over his first trustee meeting as head of the mission agency. In a plan based on five biblical goals which have led to four practical steps and three initial recommendations, Platt offered two important reminders to reach one all-consuming goal: glorifying God. Read More