The Church Has the Key

We Southern Baptists rightly admit to many faults.   It is not by accident, however, that God has made us the largest Evangelical denomination in the United States.   We were favored by humble beginnings, have clung to the Bible as our guide, build lives on gospel teaching and preaching, and have learned to cooperate with one another in the task.  We knew from the beginning that God created the church as His primary and permanent instrument for the disciple-making of communities and nations.

The first Christians were gathered together in a church and as they spread out across the world, they started churches in every community.   Many mission efforts today bypass the church, but do so to their loss.   What we call “the Church on the March” is simply a cooperative network of volunteers with the one purpose of helping and encouraging churches, their pastors and their members to live out the Great Commission every day in every possible place.    This is what God is wanting, and that is why He is prospering all that we set out to do.