Scottish Baptist Lay Preachers Association

Most Christians who set out to do ‘mission’ and ‘evangelism’ don’t start by defining their goals; and if you don’t know what you’re aiming at, it’s hard to succeed. Our churches are mostly using models of evangelism developed in a previous century and need to abandon the premise of ‘old is good – new is [...]

When I was a young Christian I wanted to go on mission-somewhere abroad, probably Africa. Someone then reminded me, living in the UK and having been born in the Indian subcontinent – I was “abroad” already!! This, of course, made me ask myself a number of questions and then think “out of the box”. What [...]

Philip Magee (Dingwall) “I planted it, Apollos watered it but God gave the growth.” 1 Corinthians 3:5 Have you ever moved a domino out which has caused all the other dominoes to move.  You might call this the domino effect.  What do I mean by that and how does this illustrate Building Missional Relationships?  Well [...]

Jim McNulty (Perth) & Committee member The church at different times and in different places has had different attitudes to Missional Relationships and to involvement in society and the world at large. The attitudes can be summed up in two verses: “Come out from among them and be separate” 2 Cor 6:17 Where the emphasis [...]

The 21st Century discipleship conference Mission Scotland event is taking place in Aberdeen on 27th  February, 9:30pm-5pm  at Newmill Parish Church, AB21  The event is for anyone who is interested in thinking about how by being a 21C Disciple we can reach and connect people in the society around us to Jesus. It will challenge some [...]

Philip Magee, member (Dingwall) Nearly two years ago I attended a conference in Edinburgh where Luis Palau and Andrew Palau were the speakers. At that conference Andrew shared his testimony of how he was came to know Christ as his personal Saviour. Strikingly his father knew that he was far from the Lord but still [...]

香港宣教會恩光堂 Peter Trotter, Active member, Glasgow On Sunday 9 November 2008 I had the wonderful privilege of preaching at two services at the Yan Kwong [Grace Light] Church in Fanling, Hong Kong, a Chinese fellowship which is part of the Hong Kong Evangelical Church, originally established by missionaries from the faith mission OMS International. One [...]

  At the beginning of November, I had the privilege of visiting the Duncan Hospital in Bihar in North India. This Christian hospital was built by Cecil Duncan a Scottish Surgeon in 1930 in Raxaul, a town bordering Nepal. I found Bihar, one of the poorest states in India, to be a fascinating mixture of [...]

Professor Emeritus Jim Parratt, Active Member Castlehill Road Baptist Church Bearsden – Formerly Honorary President of SBLPA A few weeks ago my wife Pam and I said ‘goodbye’ to our many friends in Hungary – for the third time! This is a country I first visited forty years ago, in communist times of course, and [...]

Stephen Marr (Newton Mearns) Going on a Mission trip/preaching tour to the USA does sound fairly impressive, but you have to factor in a few things. Firstly, getting to the airport at a time when any good Baptist should be fast asleep! Secondly, having to take 3 separate flights to get there (and the same [...]