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First, who am I? I am an inde­pen­dent Bap­tist mis­sion­ary serv­ing in Mex­ico City since 1986. I grad­u­ated from Bob Jones Uni­ver­sity in 1979 with a B.A. in Chris­t­ian Mis­sions, in 1981 with a M.A. in Bible, and in 1982 with a M.S. in Admin­is­tra­tion and Super­vi­sion of Schools. I am inde­pen­dent (no affil­i­a­tion or asso­ci­a­tion with any denom­i­na­tion, fel­low­ship, nor group). I am sep­a­rated in that I believe in sep­a­rat­ing from those claim­ing to be Chris­tians but who fel­low­ship and par­ti­cate with false prophets, bad doc­trine, ungodly con­duct, etc. I am Fun­da­men­tal in that I believe in the Fun­da­men­tals of the Faith, and I put seri­ous effort in defend­ing and pro­mot­ing them.

I invite you to view my site which explains our min­istry, pray for us, and if God so leads, to donate finan­cially to help us main­tain our­selves economically.

Are Mission Boards biblical?

This entry is part 1 of 1 in the series Mis­sions

I would refer you to an arti­cle by Church of Christ, John William McGar­vey, “Mis­sion­ary Soci­eties” (1868), in which he argues that mis­sion­ary soci­eties are a mod­ern inven­tion which is unbiblical.

I think the issue here is very well put by McGar­vey, when he argues that we are not at lib­erty to “invent” new con­ven­tions, orga­ni­za­tions, and meth­ods (espe­cially not chang­ing the con­tent of the gospel message).

He argues that it is legit­i­mate to use the means avail­able (which best accom­plish our bib­li­cally set goals), but not part­ing from the method­ol­ogy and prece­dent set in the Bible.

Here the issue would come down to the fol­low­ing conclusion…

We “NEED” mis­sion boards because local churches refuse to obey Scrip­tures and be the send­ing orga­ni­za­tion that equally sup­ports with actual follow-up of activ­i­ties, money, time, per­son­nel, etc. to com­plete the mis­sion God gave us. Instead of doing the job God gave them to do, local churches have aban­doned this to unbil­i­cal third par­ties (i.e. mis­sion orga­ni­za­tions) which have no scrip­tural war­rant, and which today have taken over mis­sions. While they divert mil­lions of dol­lars into US state­side build­ings and self pro­mo­tions, they drain away pre­cious scarce mis­sion resources, per­son­nel, and dol­lars into“non-missions” min­istries, i.e. activ­i­ties which drain but do not directly get peo­ple saved, which do not directly dis­ci­ple peo­ple in a local church.

Today the major­ity of the money which is given in local churches to “mis­sions” does not com­ply with ful­fill­ing the great com­mis­sion, i.e. it does not pay the salary of an indi­vid­ual that goes into another coun­try to win the lost, nor to plant and raise up local churches. This is the great higher and bet­ter vision of mis­sion boards than local churches.

To be involved in mis­sions and to live from mis­sions, every mis­sions min­is­ter should be wit­ness­ing weekly in the street. To accept any­thing less is sheer hypocripsy. Why is it accept­able for a mission’s board direc­tor and office staff NOT WITNESS WEEKLY yet they demand their mis­sion­ar­ies to do it? Isn’t hypocripsy hold­ing (and beat­ing oth­ers with the thing) a higher stan­dard for oth­ers, yet accept a lower stan­dard for one’s own self?

2011-11 Cox Prayer Update

This entry is part 7 of 7 in the series Prayer Updates

PRAYER LETTER FOR NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2011

FOR THE DAVID COX FAMILY IN MEXICO CITY

 

Dear pray­ing friends,

 

Sea­sons greet­ings from down south in Mex­ico. We are hav­ing below freez­ing tem­per­a­tures here, so it feels like a US win­ter down here! Praise the Lord none of our fam­ily is sick right now.

 

NEWS: Erika and Ger­ardo are get­ting mar­ried. Two of our young sin­gles (about30 some­things) have been dat­ing and are get­ting mar­ried Decem­ber 3rd. I am preach­ing the ser­mon and Gerado’s pas­tor from Los Ange­les (Miguel Morales) is com­ing to per­form the actual cer­e­mony. We are very happy for this young family.

 

NEWS: We are mov­ing into another house 2 doors down after the wed­ding. The present own­ers asked us to leave because they want to sell the house, so we were offered this new place. Please pray that we get all the details worked out as far as cur­tains, tele­phone, kitchen fur­ni­ture installed, etc. before Christ­mas. We had to buy a stove (the old house had a stove already, but the new one doesn’t), and we have had some extra expenses this past month. We will prob­a­bly wait until Jan­u­ary or Feb­ru­ary to get every­thing fixed up in the new house for lack of money.

 

OUR CHURCH: Our church work con­tin­ues going well. We have had a few fam­i­lies leave us, but that is not any­thing new. Many of the peo­ple who attend our church come from over 1 to 2 hours com­mute time to our church, but they come any­way because of our doc­trine and stand. They find it hard after a while, and have to stop com­ing. One of these two fam­i­lies in par­tic­u­lar were dis­grun­tled, and because they were not com­ing reg­u­larly, I wasn’t ask­ing them to par­tic­i­pate in the Adult Sun­day School, and besides that his son dated Erika, and she didn’t like him. So they decided to move on. Another fam­ily had some prob­lems and left us in Sep­tem­ber, and since then they have moved on to another church, and now in the end of Novem­ber, they have left that church and are now “church hop­ing”. I feel sorry and sad when our peo­ple leave us, and many come back to us after church hop­ing for a while, and they can­not find any good church out there.

 

Some of our peo­ple have also been absent spo­rad­i­cally because of flu and colds, and that doesn’t look to change much over the near future. I am in the process of turn­ing more and more of the Sun­day School over to the men, and help­ing them plan all the way into next sum­mer. I think they like it.

 

OUR FAMILY: We are kind of sad as Kelsie con­tin­ues study­ing the 11th grade of High School, because this com­ing sum­mer she will pack up and go to the states for her last year, and prob­a­bly study in the states if that can be arranged finan­cially. Even so, it is sad as we real­ize she is grow­ing up.

 

OUR HEALTH: My dia­betes hasn’t advanced much (nor got­ten any bet­ter), and between that and just get­ting old, I find myself hav­ing to take short 20 min­utes naps from time to time. I still get up at 5:30 or 6:00AM and study until 11PM or mid­night. Tule has osteo­poro­sis, which causes her dis­com­fort and pain some­times. We are hop­ing that we will hear less noise in the new house, and can sleep bet­ter. We’ll see.

 

MY WEBSITES: I have decided to spend some time and energy in my web­sites, and try to get my teach­ings, tracts, books, ser­mons, ser­mon audios, etc. out via the Inter­net. I am also find­ing great help in some of my sites where I down­load books for my study. These resources help my ser­mon prepa­ra­tion tremendously.

 

We thank you for your finan­cial sup­port and prayers.

 

In Christ,

David Cox davidcox@davidcox.com.mx

 

P.S. Orlando Bible Church is now going to send out my prayer let­ters from there (Orlando Florida). I have been send­ing out reg­u­lar paper let­ters to you from here, and it costs about $2 dol­lars each, and they are not get­ting to you. If there are peo­ple (besides my finan­cial sup­port­ers) who want a copy, please send a let­ter to Orlando Bible Church request­ing to be put on the prayer let­ter list. I still update my per­sonal and min­istry web­site also, http://www.davidcoxmex.com

 

 

2011-10 Cox Prayer Update

2011 Octo­ber Cox Prayer Letter

This entry is part 6 of 7 in the series Prayer Updates

Prayer let­ter for the Cox’s
in Mex­ico City, Mex­ico
Octo­ber 26, 2011

Dear pray­ing friends,

We appre­ci­ate your prayers and finan­cial sup­port. Life con­tin­ues to fly by us so fast. Kelsie is in the 11th grade this year, and we are try­ing to get her caught up, so that next year she can atten­dOr­lan­do­BibleChurch­High School. The good peo­ple there at our home church are putting her up her last year of High School, and after that, we really don’t know what she will do. She wants to con­tinue and study phar­macy, but that is a dif­fi­cult road, and there are a lot of deci­sions as far as where (Mexico/US, or where in theUS), and whether any school would accept her com­ing from home school­ing and a Chris­t­ian high school. As I under­stand it most are flooded with appli­ca­tions. We will have to wait and see, pray a lot, and just try to get her in wher­ever. Expenses are also a prob­lem as we are barely mak­ing it as far as our liv­ing expenses, and we have no money saved up any more.

Our church con­tin­ues doing well. We have had a fam­ily leave recently and that dis­cour­aged many. None-the-less, we have had coun­sel­ing with sev­eral after each church ser­vice it seems, many new peo­ple. We had two bap­tisms last month. We con­tinue to have new peo­ple come both from our weekly door to door work, and also from our mem­bers invit­ing fam­ily and friends. We grow a lit­tle, and then some don’t come all that much, and oth­ers seem to take their place, and when every­body comes we don’t have room for every­body. I am going to take the youth group for a cou­ple of months (teen Sun­day School) while our men rotate teach­ing through Hebrews. They are doing a good job, and some are lov­ing the oppor­tu­nity to speak, and oth­ers are not so excited, because it is a lot of work, and get­ting up before oth­ers to speak is part of the prob­lem. Pray for them.

We have found another house about 2 doors down from our present house, and we should be com­pletely moved in there by the end of the year. It is the same rent as where we are now, but the house is slightly more aus­tere than here. The peo­ple seem nice. There is an apart­ment behind the house, and the elderly lady and her daugh­ter and grand­kids will live with her there, and we will share the drive-way (hope­fully that’s all).

We con­tinue to get old and tired it seems. We try not to lighten up on our labors, but be faith­ful to our Lord in labor as in doc­trine. God con­tin­ues to bless, and our book web­site has over 1200 free books for down­load (about250 inthe Span­ish one). I have about 210 Span­ish tracts now. I con­tinue to get a lot of coun­sel­ing emails from peo­ple around the world also (both Eng­lish and Span­ish). I am work­ing on trans­lat­ing my lit­er­a­ture into Eng­lish. Please pray for us. We NEED your prayers!

David Cox

http://www.davidcoxmex.com/ — our min­istry website

http://www.twmodules.com/ — Free book website

http://www.coxtracts.com/ — Our free Gospel Tract Website

2011-07 Cox Prayer Update

2011 July Cox Prayer Letter

This entry is part 5 of 7 in the series Prayer Updates

Dear Pray­ing Friends,

We con­tinue to labor here in southren Mex­ico City in the area of Tlahuac. Our church con­tin­ues to grow. We have about 50 com­ing Sun­day morn­ings. I have been encour­aged by a cou­ple of things that I would like to share with you.

First of all, our Sun­day ser­vices are very sta­ble, with mostly reg­u­lar folk com­ing, and a few vis­i­tors every now and then. We con­tinue to see numer­i­cal growth of our peo­ple, although some folks come, drop off, and then come back. So we would have prob­a­bly 80–90 if all of them came at the same time. That is a worry for a pas­tor, because we don’t have that many chairs, nor really space to put peo­ple. We have talked about using a video cam­era and hav­ing a TV or pro­jec­tor in the other space with an “extended audi­to­rium.  Please pray for that.

Another encour­ag­ing thing is that I have started a Sun­day School class on 1Peter, and I have divided up each chap­ter in 2, and assigned it to one of 8 men. These men of ours are tak­ing their turns teach­ing, and they did this last year when we went to the states, and it worked then. Now it is work­ing a bit bet­ter. I have been very pleased at the clear Bible expo­si­tion of these men’s classes. The Lord will­ing this will be our reg­u­lar Sun­day Class pro­gram from now own, even though it will change books of the Bible we study from time to time.

I am also encour­aged that we have had some­times up to 20 peo­ple in Wednes­day prayer meet­ing, which is excel­lent in my opin­ion. We are study­ing Types and Sym­bols in the Bible right now, and I am writ­ing a short book on this (in Eng­lish and Span­ish) which I will post when I have fin­ished preach­ing through it. Our peo­ple are inter­ested in learn­ing and that is good. We pray for a half hour first, and then we have the class.

Also our web­sites con­tinue to grow. A Span­ish speak­ing sis­ter called from Miama yes­ter­day to talk with me, and said that she is in charge of the women’s min­istry. They are hav­ing a meet­ing next month for the women and were look­ing for mate­r­ial for that meet­ing. One of the ladies stum­bled upon my web­site, and my book, The Dress of the Chris­t­ian Woman, and they both read it and loved it. They said that is exactly their posi­tion on women’s dress, and she asked if she could print up copies of it and give it out at that meet­ing. They plan on hav­ing 200 women there!

I con­stantly get emails about my writ­ings and web­sites, some good and some bad. The ones that dis­agree with me are less than those who agree. It would seem that most Chris­tians and churches out there are starv­ing to death for good Bible teach­ing. I am glad that these peo­ple find good use for my writ­ings and teach­ing. God has laid it on my heart to try and trans­late my Span­ish writ­ings into Span­ish (which I will pub­lish here on this web­site), and the tracts on my coxtracts.com web­site. At present I only have 12 of 200 of my tracts posted, and I have prob­a­bly 50 trans­lated. So I am work­ing on that in between other demands.

I would ask spe­cial prayer for Jes­sica. She is the niece of one of our fam­i­lies. They took her in as their daugh­ter because her par­ents left her with her grand­mother, and left for the United States as ille­gals about 4–5 years ago. The poor girl has prob­lems with being aban­doned (who wouldn’t), and she has run away. Gabby and Rus­tico, her aunt and uncle, have heard rumors of her work­ing in a hotel some­where near, but they can­not locate her. Please pray for her safety, and her repen­tance that she would return.

We also con­tinue to go out on door to door evan­ge­lism and vis­i­ta­tion each Sat­ur­day morn­ing. We have seen Satan attack­ing this also, with our faith­ful per­sonal work­ers that go out with me each Sat­ur­day being attacked. One fam­ily, the Robert Perez fam­ily, has had many prob­lems with their son David’s health. In is hav­ing dial­y­sis 3–5 times per day (liq­uid in his stom­ach), and that has caused seri­ous prob­lems in the time that they go out with us. Like­wise Gabby was a very faith­ful reg­u­lar, and this with Jes­sica has also caused her to get dis­cour­aged about wit­ness­ing. Things have been kind of on the lean side as far as work­ers over the last few months. I con­tinue to pres­sure our men to come, but most work on Sat­ur­days, so it is very dif­fi­cult for them.

We would also ask spe­cial prayer for Con­cep­tion and her son Fer­nando. He has taken a very rebel­lious turn, and refuses to come to church, and is very worldly. He has been diag­nosed with Atten­tion Deficit Syn­drome, and Con­cep­tion is try­ing to help him. He is about 15. Conception’s “hus­band” left them when Fer­n­dando was born, and basi­cally they just lived together for a few years until Fer­n­dando came along. Again, the rejec­tion feel­ing has caused another per­son to stray from God. When peo­ple don’t do their duty before God towards their spouse, their chil­dren, etc. it has a rip­ple effect of curs­ing and problems.

Finally I would like to ask for your prayers about our finan­cial sit­u­a­tion here. Our finan­cial prob­lems grow worse and worse each year. We have a church or two that stops sup­port­ing us each year, and from a high of 25 churches, we are now about at 17. We prob­a­bly should have 50 churches sup­port­ing us, and most “nor­mal” mis­sion­ar­ies have close to 100. Our church here on the field has under­taken to do what they can to help us with our sup­port, and they are giv­ing between $100 to $200 a week to us, and to under­take all the expenses of the church and its min­istry here. This helps us greatly, but frankly, we need more finan­cial sup­port­ers. This sit­u­a­tion will con­tinue to grow into long term prob­lems because we just barely live from month to month. First of all we need your prayers, and then we need your help if you can rec­om­mend indi­vid­u­als or churches to help us with our finan­cial sit­u­a­tion. Lastly, if it is pos­si­ble for you to send a reg­u­larly monthly dona­tion, or even a once in a long time sin­gle dona­tion, it would help.

In Christ,

Pas­tor David Cox

2011-07 Update on Kelsie’s Condition

This entry is part 4 of 7 in the series Prayer Updates

Kelsie has been home for a week now, and going on the sec­ond week. She is now eat­ing mostly nor­mal food, no spicy nor greasy stuff, and she is doing well. She is still spend­ing most of the day on the couch watch­ing TV or read­ing some of her school books.

Her migraine headaches have left her for the most part, and the doc­tor seemed to think they were a prod­uct of her appen­dici­tis, and were not per­ma­nent. She still has prob­lems at times trav­el­ing, and com­ing home from the hos­pi­tal she threw up. So she still has some motion-sickness related problems.

Please con­tinue to pray for her health. She is very thin, and the doc­tor ordered some vit­a­mins to help her on that front. Please also con­tinue to pray for us, because we do not have health insur­ance, so we had to pay this $2,500 dol­lars out of pocket, and we have about $2400 paid so far.

Good Books: Free Books for Godly Women

This entry is part 1 of 4 in the series Good Free Books

Page Sum­mary: This page has dozens of good books by Chris­t­ian women authors, about Chris­t­ian women, or deal­ing with var­i­ous dif­fer­ent impor­tant issues to obe­di­ent and godly Chris­t­ian women.

  1. Good Books by Chris­t­ian Women
  2. Good Books on Chris­t­ian Women
  3. Good Books on Women’s Issues and Interests

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In our rec­om­men­da­tions, I would like to rec­om­mend to all the good Chris­t­ian women out there to review the list of rec­om­men­da­tions below. I have included here some good books about women and by women.

All of these books are free, and can be down­loaded from these links below. The only thing you need is the free Bible soft­ware pro­gram, The­Word, from http://www.theword.net. Make sure you down­load the Bible pro­gram first, and then you can down­load and install any or all of these books.

Good Books by Chris­t­ian Women

Good Books on Chris­t­ian Women

Good Books on Women’s Issues and Interests

Also, see my book­shelf on Mis­sions: Mis­sions and Mis­sion­ar­ies Bookshelf

In a cou­ple of months from now I will try to update this page with more women’s books. Please post a com­ment if you find this page helpful.

P.S. Happy birth­day to me (web­mas­ter, David Cox). Today is my birthday!

Good Books: Free Devotional Books

This entry is part 2 of 4 in the series Good Free Books

I wanted to do a fol­low up on my other post about the good books avail­able off of my web­site twmodules.com in the­Word for­mat. On this page (Free Devo­tional Books) you will see a list­ing of my devo­tional works…

From time to time I will be adding to this list (the above are not all the books in the devo­tional sec­tion). Please check my web­site and look on the side bar “Mod­ules by Topic”, and there under “By Top­ics” area under “Devotional”.

We are slowly gath­er­ing a very good library for your spir­i­tual benefit.

How to Buy a Christian Book

This entry is part 5 of 4 in the series Good Free Books

Post Sum­mary: This post will give you some guide­lines and help towards mak­ing wise pur­chases on buy­ing Chris­t­ian books. No I am not pro­mot­ing any par­tic­u­lar book or Chris­t­ian pub­lisher in gen­eral, and I don’t men­tion any in gen­eral. These are gen­eral spir­i­tual and com­mon sense guidelines.

  1. Some Gen­eral Considerations

    1. Is it legal?
    2. How much do I have to invest to use it?
  2. What is the for­mat of the book?
    1. Elec­tronic or Paper and Ink
    2. Is it complete?
  3. Who wrote the book?
    1. Was he/is he a Christian?
    2. What doc­tri­nal and denom­i­na­tion ori­en­ta­tion did he have?
    3. Did his reli­gious bias and prej­u­dices show in his book?
    4. Was the author a woman?

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Good free books for Bible Study

This entry is part 1 of 4 in the series Good Free Books

Page Sum­mary: This page is an expla­na­tion of how I got involved in Chris­t­ian books after col­lege, my prob­lems and needs for a Chris­t­ian ref­er­ence library for my min­istry, and how God not only sup­plied my needs with free books, but also made it such that I can freely offer these books to hun­dreds and thou­sands of other Christians.

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