Description

John Leonard, a missionary to Brazil, encourages students to be missionaries wherever they are because when you're on a mission, that is where the real action is - where life and death, sin and grace happen.

Scripture Text

1 Corinthians 15:58

Main Points or Ideas

Leonard shares his personal mission story through images of his life and ministry, including:

• Growing up on the mission field in Brazil where his parents started churches
• Meeting his wife at Faith Baptist Bible College and returning to Brazil as church planters
• Starting a church in a dangerous Brazilian favela (slum) where he was shot six times by a drug lord
• Returning to Brazil after recovery to continue church planting work
• Ministry to native Guarani Indians who had never heard God's Word
• Current work with handicapped ministry and police chaplaincy

The main theme centers on being steadfast, unmovable, and always abounding in the work of the Lord, illustrated through the Greek relay race metaphor of passing the lit torch from generation to generation.

Conclusion

We must be steadfast and unmovable, grabbing onto the cross and reaching out to those around us, carrying our lit torch for others to see as we fulfill our mission for God.