California Missionary with Lance Wallace-CMAW138

What You'll Hear: Lance grew up in Sonoma County, CA, a very liberal progressive area He was in a frat house at Oregon State, then a semester later Lance got saved after hearing the Gospel and asking a lot of questions He got a full scholarship to play baseball at The Masters College in Southern CA, a very conservative school The Masters is part of John McArthur's ministry He went to the Masters Seminary and start dating his future wife Jill after praying for that in a prayer class Sonoma County is north San Francisco and is actually more progressive than San Francisco.  In Trump's first election Sonoma was the only county that voted for Bernie Sanders in the primaries He became a college/career pastor at Santa Rosa Church in Sonoma County.  They started a ministry at the Santa Rosa Junior College campus.  Their ministry was called LOC (Life on Campus) and had to change their name because there was already an LOC (Lesbians on Campus) 95% of the people on campus didn't know the Gospel Christians there are like gnarly trees on the top of mountains, you need good roots and foundation The tribulation will come for Christians but the main thing is that we have the Lord Tim Keller is proficient in the scriptures and he studied C.S. Lewis With LGBT issues, God is a designer and there's right and wrong.  Living right is doing it the way God our creator says to do it. The Gospel is like getting a ticket to a supermall with all God's blessings and goodness The Gospel is going to be an offense, so there always will be a conflict there Sometimes people are afraid to share the Gospel because they think they're going to get into an argument With Social Media, you are the market We need to have gentleness and respect and to let our speech filled with grace, and seasoned with salt It's easy to throw big grenades across the Facebook page. He tries to be gracious and witty publicly and then send them a private message to talk further Check out a Netflix movie "The Social Dilemma", good especially for young people Try to look at different new sources and listen to what people are saying Sonoma County is one of the least churched county, only 2% go to church They have a group of pastors from different denominations that meet regularly.  The local government officials see them as a united group and reaches out to them Francis Chan is coming out with a book on unity and has perhaps gone too far and embracing fringe ideas You can't be faithful to Christ and have a universalist view, you're just making up your own religion at that point There are very few Jewish people and Muslims in Northern California.  There are a lot of Mormons and JW's.  Buddhism is the #1 religion in Sonoma County. Contact at www.FirstBaptistWindsor.org or on Social Media Pray for them and come out if you're mission oriented