YOUR SATURDAY SEVEN
Compiled by: Rob Martinez, October 23, 2021
Here is another week of compiled articles! Your Saturday Seven is a hand selection of seven articles from this week that will hopefully be a blessing to you! Enjoy your Saturday seven! You can see more past articles here.
1. HAITI GANG SEEKS $1M EACH FOR KIDNAPPED US MISSIONARIES.
By: Danica Coto, et.al, 10.19.21
“A gang that kidnapped 17 members of a U.S.-based missionary group is demanding $1 million ransom per person, although authorities are not clear whether that includes the five children being held, a top Haitian official told The Associated Press on Tuesday.”
2. BIBLE MEMORY BRINGS REALITY TO LIFE.
By: John Bloom, 10.22.21
“It’s our immense memory that provides our creative imagination the information from which to make sense of reality and draw the correct implications. And we can’t imagine anything that isn’t meaningfully present in our memory. This is why Bible memory so important.”
3. WHY WE SHOULDN’T DISPARAGE COUNTING IN CHURCH.
By: Thom Rainer, 10.22.21
“We are in a historical cycle in the evangelical world where the mood is to disparage counting, attendance, and other numerical metrics. Consequently, we are in danger of losing accountability that is inherent with the following numbers. How are we able to discern the growing disdain for numbers and counting? Here are 10 issues that are indicative of the movement to disparage metrics.”
4. WHO WILL LEAD THE SBC FORWARD? THE MESSENGERS, THEY ALREADY ARE.
By: Matt Henslee, 10.22.21
“Therefore, if you want to find the leaders of the Southern Baptist Convention, visit First Baptist Church of Anywhere and look around. While entity heads and trustees are important, the true leaders of the SBC are already leading — now, right before your eyes.”
5. T4G CONFERENCE WILL END IN 2022.
By: Kate Shellnutt, 10.21.21
“The end date for T4G comes as Mohler, the president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, moves on.”
6. THE DANGER OF OVERCONFIDENCE.
By: John MacArthur, 10.18.21
“A controlled body is useful to the Lord; an indulged one is not. The Christian who controls his body and his lifestyle is qualified to serve the Lord; the one who indulges his body and is careless in his lifestyle is disqualified.”
7. WHY GEN Z CHRISTIANS NEED CHURCH HISTORY.
By: Noah Senthil, 10.21.21
“For Gen Z Christians, we might suppose that the ancientness of Christianity would drag a dry and impractical message to the 21st century, but the opposite is true. Instead, Christianity’s truth is made evident by its enduring freshness throughout the ages as the gospel transcends every imaginable hurdle, contextualized to every environment and time period.”
