BWA’s Callam challenges Brits
by Kevin Butler
From Eron Henry, Baptist World Alliance
Washington, DC -- Baptist World Alliance General Secretary Neville Callam called on British Baptists to become more fully engaged in God’s mission.
Callam, speaking at the annual assembly of the Baptist Union of Great Britain (BUGB) in Bournemouth, England, on Saturday, May 2, told the 2,000 worshippers, “Christians will faithfully fulfill their missionary calling only if they do God’s mission in God’s way.” Such mission, he said, “has its origin in God the Father.”
“Jesus knows that if his disciples are ever going to faithfully carry out the demands of mission, they cannot depend merely on themselves…. We need the Holy Spirit,” Callam declared. “Our own personal resources are valuable, but they are not sufficient.”
Reminding the congregation of past British missionaries (such as William Knibb and James Phillippo who went to Jamaica in the Caribbean, and William Carey who went to India), Callam urged British Baptists to be obedient to “the work we are called to do.”
The Baptist Assembly is a joint gathering of the BUGB and BMS World Mission, the main mission agency for British Baptists.
The occasion of the assembly was also used to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the founding of Baptist witness. The first Baptist church was established in Amsterdam in the Netherlands in 1609 by British exiles who fled religious persecution in their homeland.
The BWA will also mark 400 years of Baptist history during the BWA Annual Gathering in the Netherlands from July 27-August 1.
Washington, DC -- Baptist World Alliance General Secretary Neville Callam called on British Baptists to become more fully engaged in God’s mission.
Callam, speaking at the annual assembly of the Baptist Union of Great Britain (BUGB) in Bournemouth, England, on Saturday, May 2, told the 2,000 worshippers, “Christians will faithfully fulfill their missionary calling only if they do God’s mission in God’s way.” Such mission, he said, “has its origin in God the Father.”
“Jesus knows that if his disciples are ever going to faithfully carry out the demands of mission, they cannot depend merely on themselves…. We need the Holy Spirit,” Callam declared. “Our own personal resources are valuable, but they are not sufficient.”
Reminding the congregation of past British missionaries (such as William Knibb and James Phillippo who went to Jamaica in the Caribbean, and William Carey who went to India), Callam urged British Baptists to be obedient to “the work we are called to do.”
The Baptist Assembly is a joint gathering of the BUGB and BMS World Mission, the main mission agency for British Baptists.
The occasion of the assembly was also used to celebrate the 400th anniversary of the founding of Baptist witness. The first Baptist church was established in Amsterdam in the Netherlands in 1609 by British exiles who fled religious persecution in their homeland.
The BWA will also mark 400 years of Baptist history during the BWA Annual Gathering in the Netherlands from July 27-August 1.
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