- I was excited about preaching Sunday, but preaching in Thai = multiple levels of nervous.
- Just learned that someone trusted Christ after church on Sunday! #exciting
- After 3 months of waiting on the A/C company (because warranty), it turned out to be a bad $4 breaker. So that’s cool. And then after 2 days it broke again. Now you know why you have never heard of the brand Saijo Denki.
- I want to be an advocate for Buddhist nations, but we can’t neglect Muslim ones either. Predicted Muslim population growth by Pew Research
- I thought this was funny – Totally believable. [Pic]
- Living the dream [Pic]
- Some thoughts on short term trips – Always a Missions Tripper, Never a Missionary
Steven says
May 3, 2015 at 5:37 pmI was discouraged by your reference to the article about short term mission trippers. I guess I have a different view. I am a laborer, I have done every type of manual labor on the mission field. I feel I have helped those missionaries better accomplish their work by doing some of the grunt WOR. I never claimed to be a Pauline missionary but I have taken individuals who have ultimately answered that call. It is what little I feel I can do. I guess you are right that perhaps I could have sent money for laborers to do the work, but I would not have felt I had done anything my self. I can also see first hand what that missions group is doing. Do you feel the short term missions should stop or just renamed?
Philip says
January 28, 2016 at 1:30 amWell, I am a little late on my reply! Sorry about that. I love missions trips, but I think if we are not careful, they can take opportunities that could be used to strengthen the local church and congregation, where they work together, develop camaraderie, and feel the ownership, and outsource it to an outsider. Not that there is any fault on the part of the mission-tripper, but it is sometimes unwittingly perpetuating the perception that this is the foreigner’s religion, not our own. When the whole point of missions is implanting a church to become indigenous and stand without us, there are associated dangers of hindering that progress with anything we come in and do, if we are not careful and thoughtful about it. We just need to make sure we are not taking their chance to grow strong on their own with our good intentions.