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BOB PHILLIPS PREACHING ENGAGEMENTS 

Due to the growth of WORLDMISSION, it’s spreading influence in Reformed circles and the opening of the WORLDMISSION THEOLOGICAL CENTRE in Belize Bob has decided to begin taking more preaching engagements. He will now be available to preach in preaching conferences, mission conferences, one or two night meetings and evangelistic meetings, etc. He feels at home in this type of environment because of the years he preached as a Southern Baptist Evangelist. He realizes that his theology and methodology will be different since he is now Reformed in his theology. He also is aware that some of the greatest evangelistic preachers who ever lived were also of that theological persuasion, Charles H. Spurgeon, George Whitfield and Jonathan Edwards to name a few. There will be no high pressure techniques, no decisional regeneration, no “walk the isle regeneration,” no preaching for numbers, but a recognition that a sinner can have no part in his own salvation. Salvation will be all of God, from start to finish!

If you would also like to give Bob an opportunity to come and share the ministry in Belize he is now available to come. If you are planning a Missions Conference and would enjoy having our ministry presented to your church he would be pleased to be a part of that. For this type presentation he could preach, give a power point presentation or show a video of the work. 

WORLDMISSION is also beginning to organize conferences around the country and in other countries. Our last conference was in Belize in June. If you would like to host a WORLDMISSION CONFERENCE we will come and help you arrange it, help you recruit local pastors to participate and arrange for outside speakers if you like. All we would ask is that Bob be on the program and that we could share our ministry in a low key, respectable manner. You can host the conference in your church, or you can hold it in several churches or secure a neutral site. We Reformed Brothers need to bond together, stand back to back with each other, encourage one another, protect each other, lift up our brothers in prayer and love each other in Christ. Please pray about using Bob in your church and if you feel led of the Lord to use him contact us.

 

JOHN 17: 2 CONFERENCE  (REVIVAL OF ORTHODOXY)

Recently at the First Baptist Church, Jacksonville, Florida, a conference was held. The title of the conference was THE JOHN 3: 16 CONFERENCE. Its apparent goal was to voice its opposition to Calvinism, a “spoof of Calvinism,” if you will. Perhaps the verse in question, John 3: 16 was supposed to debunk the Protestant Orthodoxy that came out of the Protestant Reformation. From what we have heard and judging from observations of many who attended there was a lot of generalizations, inaccurate presentations of the doctrines that were being preached upon and misrepresentations of the Doctrines of Grace. Those who really understand what is really taught in Reformed Theology were disappointed in the lack of exegetical arguments put forth by the speakers. There was not nearly enough honest dealing with doctrines and scriptures to exegete them adequately. We fear many left the conference with a misrepresented idea of these precious doctrines. All we ask for is an honest and informed presentation of the doctrines we hold dear. 

Therefore, WORLDMISSION held its own conference at the First Baptist Church, Marydel, Maryland. There was no axe to grind. There was no debate or argument with the conference in Jacksonville. There was no mention made of any sermons at that conference or any mention of any of their preachers. The purpose of our conference was simply to make an adequate presentation of The Doctrines of Grace through the preaching of God’s Word and accurate exegetious of the Scriptures. We wanted to lift each other up and encourage others who believe as we do around the country. We wanted people to hear the true interpretations of our theology, not an “old wives tale,” or worse still, deliberate distortions of what we believe by intellectual dishonesty.  

Our preachers spoke on several doctrines of the scriptures, on the role of missions and emphasis of missions (in particular Foreign Missions) in Reformed Theology and the role of God Centered, responsible Evangelism that flows forth from Reformed Theology. We had preachers from five states, plus Trinidad to preach. The conference lasted six days, including Sunday. We had a baptismal service one night during the week. It was an opportunity to preach the Gospel clearly, to articulate the Doctrines of Grace (not what people think they might teach, or what they would like for them to teach), explaining what they actually, in reality teach, to glorify God and lift up Jesus.  

We have made available C D’s of the conference sermons. They are available for purchase on the following page. They are listed by sermon topic and speaker. There is also a space to send the entire series to a friend. The entire conference will be shipped to you in attractive C D cases for a gift to the ministry. All gifts will go directly to the WORLMISSION ministry account. We suggest a gift of $30.00, or more if you wish. All gifts are tax deductible.

 

ASHLEY ROCKE’S VISIT 

In April Bob travelled to Belize for 10 days. He first met with Dr Bob Coye, a Belizian Medical Doctor who lives and works in Little Rock, Arkansas, Pastor Ruperto Vincente, Pastor of Galilee Baptist in Belize City and Pastor Ashley Rocke, Pastor of Lake Independence Baptist in Belize City. Pastor Rocke is the President of the Belize Baptist Association which has a membership of 59 Baptist Churches. Bob had met Ashley earlier this year and formed a warm friendship. In their meeting Pastor Rocke invited WORLDMISSION to come to Belize and sponsor a Bible Conference in June, 2009, next month. There has been and still was in that meeting s sense of urgency concerning WORLDMISSION’S involvement in Belize.

We invited Pastor Rocke to come to Maryland and spend 10 days with us, which he did in May. He preached and ministered to our folks. We took him to meet with several Reformed Baptist Pastor’s during his visit to share with them our involvement in Belize and details of the current situation. The next page of this newsletter will explain this situation.

BELIZE CITY BIBLE CONFERENCE 

Continuing from above, as a result of our meeting in April, WORLDMISSION sponsored the BELIZE CITY BIBLE CONFERENCE June 14-21, 2009. The theme was A STUDY OF ROMANS. Ramzan Hosein, President of TRINIDAD & TOBAGO BIBLE COLLEGE, preached on Romans, chapter’s 1-7, Bob Phillips, President of WORLDMISSION, preached on chapter’s 8-12 and Leland Browder, President of MISSIONS UNLIMITED, preached on Churchmanship, Uniting Baptist’s of Belize. Pastor Rocke invited every Baptist Church in Belize to attend the conference. 

We feel it is imperative to share with you the current spiritual situation in Belize so that our Reformed friends around the world can join us in prayer about this matter. God has placed WORLDMISSION into a very strategic position and it is very exciting to us. At the same time, it is very challenging. The opportunity He has provided for us will probably involve Spiritual Warfare to the degree that God so chooses. First of all God has given us an unparalleled opportunity to present the Doctrines of Grace (via teaching Romans) to all the Baptist Churches who come to the conference. Pray that God will give us wisdom to wisely present the truth to churches which have no idea what Reformed Theology is. The only Reformed Witness in Belize is a couple of Presbyterian Churches in the north of the country.