Mark Dever & Brooks Buser Discuss Missions Today
Video Chapters
00:00 Intro
00:24 Why is the church central in missions?
03:57 What kind of church should be the goal in missions?
07:05 Spread vs duration
08:23 We don't need special methods for growth
12:20 No Shortcuts to Success book
14:48 The necessity of missions to unreached language groups
18:17 The 4 lanes of missions https://www.9marks.org/article/a-better-way-to-look-at-missions/
19:32 Do minority language speakers also speak majority/trade languages?
20:20 Church planting movements and accuracy of reported results
25:07 Checking in on churches
27:02 Unreached people groups and Ralph Winter
28:22 Urbana and CROSS Conference
30:30 Missionary Conference
32:46 How can pastors encourage missions to unreached language groups?
34:32 Thoughts on RADIUS Orientation
35:41 Closing
MARK DEVER
Senior Pastor of Capitol Hill Baptist Church, President of 9Marks
Mark has served as the senior pastor of Capitol Hill Baptist Church since 1994 and as president of 9Marks (a ministry to churches and church leaders) since its founding in 1998. He’s married to Connie and they have two adult children, both married, and one grandchild. Mark has authored a number of books, including 9 Marks of a Healthy Church.
BROOKS BUSER
Cross-Cultural Church Planter, President of Radius International
Brooks and his wife Nina are graduates of Christian Heritage College. Brooks worked as the CFO of a Dutch multinational before he and wife were challenged through God’s word to take the gospel to an unreached people group. In 2003 they moved in among the Yembi Yembi people and spend the next 13 years working among them. They were able to develop an alphabet, teach them how to read and write in their own language for the first time, translate the entire N.T. and large portions of the O.T. and teach through the Biblical narrative till a church came into existence. In 2016 elders were in place and the church was strong and they returned to the U.S. In 2017 Brooks was named as President of Radius International.
https://www.radiusinternational.org/about-effective-cross-cultural-church-planting-training/