The Dread Warrior of Salvation

Rick and Carol Stark, missionaries

Career missionaries Rick and Carol Stark from Brazil shared some practical steps of evangelism with our high school class at Faith Baptist Church, this past Sunday.  He focused on Jesus Christ being the dread warrior of salvation--in the warfare of salvation, Jesus always wins and seeks the needy. 

"But the Lord is with me as a dread warrior; therefore my persecutors will stumble; they will not overcome me. They will be greatly shamed, for they will not succeed. Their eternal dishonor will never be forgotten.  

"O Lord of hosts, who tests the righteous, who sees the heart and the mind,  let me see your vengeance upon them, for to you have I committed my cause.

"Sing to the Lord; praise the Lord! For he has delivered the life of the needy from the hand of evildoers."  Jeremiah 20:11-13

Youth in Crackland, Brazil

"And if a son of peace is there, your peace will rest upon him. But if not, it will return to you." Luke 10:6 

Whether speaking to the deepest domains of darkness in Brazil's Crackland, our July 8-15 mission destination of Fort McLeod, Alberta, Canada, or our 51 other weeks in our high schools and community, those who desire to share the eternal, saving work in Jesus are warrior sons and daughters of peace. 

Here is a depiction of "Crackland in Brazil:  Crackland exposed in Brazil

The adversary and enemy of salvation does not want anyone seeking to be bring the message of salvation to the worlds we live in.  Rick suggested the enemy wants us and every listener to be concerned about  ourselves with evil deception and self-focus.  Some of the thoughts might be like:  

• Maybe I won't be popular.  
• I am too messed up to talk about Jesus?  
• What will my friends or those people think of me?

Rick gave us an incredibly key question to ask someone in our conversations to transition to presenting Jesus and salvation through Him: