Professor of Missiology at the Living Faith Bible Institute, James Fyffe, continues the Unknown Missionary series on The Postscript today with Provost of LFBI Brandon Briscoe. We begin with the interesting story and legacy of the Erny family. Ed was the son of missionaries and grandson to Swiss Protestant immigrants to the U.S. Ed was trained for missions at Asbury Theological Seminary. Ed and Rachel spent 40 years in Asia as missionaries, suffering many trials along the way. Their testimony remains that God used them mightily, with many souls coming into Christ’s Kingdom and glory after them. Ed wrote an autobiography titled “No Reserves, No Regrets, No Retreats: The Life and Ministry of Ed Erny.”

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We continue our unknown missionary series with Professor of Missiology James Fyffe. This time we trace the conversion and missions work of Henry Martyn (1781-1812). Henry left a life of comfort and ease in the West to labor for 6 short and meaningful years in the work of Bible translation and evangelism. His legacy is felt most today from the Middle East all the way through India where his Bibles are still being used for gospel and discipleship-centered church planting movements. Henry shows us believers what it means to burn bright for the Lord Jesus Christ, heeding the call to world missions.

We interview student of Living Faith Bible Institute student Michael Black who ministers in Kansas City, Missouri at his local church. Michael shares how Living Faith Bible Institute has and is preparing him to be a fruitful and effective soul winner and missionary in the heart of the city. Michael leads his church's evangelism ministry as well as a growing Bible study on a local college campus with the intention that fruit from that ministry will one day result in a new church plant.

Lastly, as all of our Shorts guests do, Michael tells us his favorite LFBI courses and which Postscript episodes he has gleaned the most from.

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We speak with pastor Mark Schaffer to hear his testimony and the story of how God led him to plant a church in Tampa, Florida. He speaks about the development of his team and the challenges they have faced over the past 9 years as they have discovered their particular place in the city and ministries to match the culture. Lastly, Mark shares how the church's identity has shifted during the church-planting process. Living Faith Tampa is now a fully established church on a mission to reach the nations, with the goal of planting many churches near and abroad.

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Pastor and professor of missiology James Fyffe returns to continue our “Unknown Missionary” series. This time we discuss the history of the Waldensians, an Italian group of mission-minded Bible believers severely persecuted for their faith. We cover their core doctrines, methods of evangelism and legacy which included a church-planting movement spanning 400 years.

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Today, Pastor Brian Clark brings an update from Crossroads Baptist Church, London, also announcing a new book coming soon called Just A.S.K. which expounds on several themes from today's conversation on evangelism.

First, Brian shares next steps for preparing a new church plant which his team is trusting God for over the next several years. We then discuss the topic of winning souls from examples in the early Church. Illustrating this topic, Brian shares testimonies of trial and error, learning from mistakes and how God made him the leader of a church-planting work in London.

How does the follower of Christ prepare for the work of evangelism? How should believers approach the lost about the gospel? How does the believer keep the conversation going with the lost? Questions like these and many more are answered in this episode.

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This week we have Pastor Joe McKaig of Decatur Baptist Church in Decatur, AL, who is the instructor of the Introduction to Homiletics course in the Living Faith Bible Institute. We are going to discuss what it means to be salt and light within the communities that we live.

What does it look like for the church to be a friend and support within their community? What does it mean for the pastor to shepherd the relationships they have with those outside of the church?

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We discuss the life of missionary Narcissa Whitman with James Fyffe, professor of missiology at the Living Faith Bible Institute. Narcissa moved West with the gospel in the 1800's at a time women were not commonly going to the mission field. We discuss the hurdles she faced and how she went to the Cayuse and the Nez Percé tribes with the intention of spreading the gospel. Lastly, we glean principles from an analysis of her journals for supporting sent missionaries from home churches.

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Dan Jalowiec joins us today to share his testimony of salvation and how that led to a missionary call to Zambia, Africa for him and his wife, Jan. Dan shares many ways in which he has experienced God’s grace along the way. He discovered the mission field of Zambia on his very first mission trip, after a long career with his wife Jan in optometry. Most recently, Dan and Jan have planned to return to Zambia for more focused cultural and linguistic training; this time they will be without their children who have grown and are trusting Christ in their own endeavors as they have come to maturity.

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We continue our unknown missionary series with Living Faith Bible Institute Professor of Missiology, James Fyffe. This time we cover the life and ministry of man named Qureshi, otherwise known as “The Peanut Butter Man” of Pakistan.

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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.

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Visit https://www.lffellowship.com/focus for sermons and additional materials from the Living Faith Fellowship’s 2022-23 Mission Focus Conference.

Living Faith Bible Institute student Scott Sandy of Valley Bible Baptist Church in Cobleskill, NY shares his testimony of salvation. He then tells us a little about his ministry, Northeast Baptist Seedline which partners with Bearing Precious Seed in Milford, OH to produce and distribute the books of John and Romans to various people around the world and locally. Scott also reflects on the mentors and ministries God used to disciple him.

We continue our unknown missionary series with James Fyffe, professor of Missiology at Living Faith Bible Institute. This time we cover the life of Columba of Colmcille, an Irish-born missionary credited with a fruitful church planting ministry spanning Ireland and Scotland. We discuss the legends surrounding the man as well as Catholic mythology in the tale of Saint Columba and the banishment of the Loch Ness monster.

This week, we talk apologetics with Living Faith Bible Institute Professor Tony Godfrey. As believers, many of us acknowledge our need to share and defend our faith, but few of us feel capable. Learning an approach to and the philosophy behind our apologetic is important to engaging the lost. This episode, we discuss that philosophy, learning some skills for sharing our faith and standing firm on the authority of God's word.

We continue our missions series with missionary and LFBI professor James Fyffe. Last time we spoke, we covered the ministry of George Grenfell in the Congo, Africa (Ep. 116). This time we travel to Asia to cover the life of another lesser-known missionary, Quan Xuan, who worked in Vietnam during a communist uprisal which severely opposed the spread of Christianity. His passion for Christ led him to become a great example of what it means to go before those we lead.

We flip the script this week as Ps+ host Van Sneed interviews The Postscript host Brandon Briscoe regarding an evangelistic Bible study method that makes the Word of God accessible to the lost.