Episode 146: Missions and the Role of the Local Church

In this episode Jeff Bartell, the missions pastor of First Baptist Church in New Philadelphia, OH and host of the podcast Theology Roundtable shares his missions experience in post-communist Albania. In 1992 Jeff found himself amidst a people who had never heard the gospel. He learned the language, preached the gospel and made disciples. Now that same Albanian local church God used Jeff to plant is biblically envisioned and actively reproducing local churches in other parts of the world. We discuss missions and specifically how the local church described throughout the New Testament fits God’s plan for evangelizing the lost and making disciples of Jesus Christ. Visit https://www.lfbi.org/learnmore Visit https://www.lffellowship.com/focus for sermons and additional materials from the Living Faith Fellowship’s 2022-23 Mission Focus Conference.