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Comment on 10 Ways To Avoid Becoming A Missionary by Amber Lee

Amber Lee — Fri, 16 Sep 2016 14:45:00 +0000

This is great David, and very truthful! I think we stumbled on 10. Though, looking back I wouldn’t trade it. So many things learned. Our experience became part of our preparation, we did not give up, how could we deny who God made us to be and what he has spoken in our hearts to do? We are back here working towards getting back. It’s taking longer than expected. It’s hard, it’s frustrating, it’s learning to be patient, it’s learning to persevere against the whispers of security and comfort that tempt me to consider staying stateside. It’s learning to balance family needs in a healthy way with our passion to work overseas. I love reading your blogs because they are a blast of honesty in missions, they are real, they are gritty, they are stirring.

Comment on 7 Missionary Traps To Avoid On The Mission Field by Brianna

Brianna — Mon, 11 Jan 2016 23:17:00 +0000

Being an US stateside missionary is fun and fulfilling, but is also hard work. Oftentimes the things that everyone THINKS as hard aren’t as difficult as the untold things. There are certain aspects we don’t often talk about because it isn’t what most want to hear. Here are a few of those untold truths the Church should know… http://unveiledandrevealed.com/2016/01/11/stateside-missionary-life-7-truths-church-know/

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MISSIONARIES: 7 Missionary Traps To Avoid On Th... — Tue, 22 Sep 2015 04:45:13 +0000

[…] "I have lived on the mission field for 3 ½ years. It’s been exciting to experience the goodness of God in His provision and love, and to see Him change lives—mine included. But the age-old Bible-proclaimed problem is: Satan does not want any of this to happen. He is smart and knows missionaries usually have their guards up and are saturated in the Word. So he tries other snares to halt us and steal us away from completing our callings." >> CLICK the title to read the entire post. Thanks to The Global Member Care Network Sept. 2015 Newsletter for the reference to this article! I have lived on the mission field for 3 ½ years. It’s been exciting to experience the goodness of God in His provision and love, and to see Him change lives—mine included. But the age-old Bible-proclaimed problem is: Satan does not want any of this to happen. He is smart and knows missionaries usually have their guards up and are saturated in the Word. So he tries other snares to halt us and steal us away from completing our callings.I have lived on the mission field for 3 ½ years. It’s been exciting to experience the goodness of God in His provision and love, and to see Him change lives—mine included. But the age-old Bible-proclaimed problem is: Satan does not want any of this to happen. He is smart and knows missionaries usually have their guards up and are saturated in the Word. So he tries other snares to halt us and steal us away from completing our callings. – See more at: https://withinreachglobal.org/7-missionary-traps-to-avoid-on-the-mission-field/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=global_member_care_network_september_2015#sthash.t6Vko6IX.dpuf  […]

Comment on Embracing The Crazy A Missionary’s Recollection Of Chinese Reactions To Their New Christian Life by qxe

qxe — Tue, 08 Sep 2015 19:05:00 +0000

“Lord, help us embrace the crazy.”

So I see you’re starting to anticipate the punches the non-theist world is throwing at you and stepping inside it to minimize the blow. Nice try, but it’s too late. The cat is out of the bag, Pandora’s box is open and the world sees all the bat-shit Christian craziness for what it truly is. Crazy. Insane. Nutbag foolishness for the elderly, infirm, the easily duped, the culturally-bred superstitious and the uneducated. Once the kids have seen the city, you can never get them back on the farm.

The internet and the ubiquitous explosion of knowledge for all is killing Christianity like a bolt of sunshine on a sick, aging vampire. It’s turning religion to dust and it’s high time. The vampire is the perfect metaphor for Christianity: It…

• drains the lifeblood from its sycophantic followers, keeping them barely alive and producing an endless supply of cash and time from them

• flourishes in the darkness of ignorance, and once exposed to sunlight it screams and shrinks away

• can be killed only by a stake in the heart of its core beliefs

• once free of its stupefying grasp, it’s followers shake off the cloak of repression and can truly start to live

As a former Christian myself, I never understood how deeply I was drugged into believing the crazy tenets of the blood-worshipping cult of Christ. I’ll never again “drink of His blood and eat of His flesh”, and now that I can see what craziness I believed and said to others, I’m ashamed at being so taken in by the creepy promises of an afterlife that only I and others that give the vampire their full soul can enjoy, and that if my family and friends were skeptics of these promises, then the pit of Hell was their reward for merely questioning my beliefs.

It’s a sick cult. Please get out while you can.

Comment on You Might Be Surprised At The Top 20 Countries Where Christianity Is Growing The Fastest by qxe

qxe — Tue, 08 Sep 2015 18:38:00 +0000

In looking at this site “withinreachglobal.org” it says it’s main goal is to reach places where god’s word hasn’t reached and proselytize to them. I find it odd that since god is supposedly all powerful, why hasn’t his word reached ALL his children by now, but instead “He” relies on missionaries to spread it. What about the poor, starving children that die before the almighty word reaches them?

The bible says they’ll go to hell:

“He will punish those who do not know God … They will be punished with everlasting destruction and shut out from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of his might.” — 2 Thessalonians 1:8-9

I suppose those people DO deserve to burn forever in an everlasting pit of fire and torture. I mean, I know that as a father myself, if I forgot to tell my kids not to touch dad’s special peanut butter, and they did, not knowing wouldn’t be a good enough excuse. As a loving parent it would be my duty to inflict the most pain and suffering I possibly could on them for as long as I possibly could, until child protective services came to stop me, those evil, atheist fiends.

We need to give these people “withinreachglobal.org” as much money as possible to get the word to those kids about their heavenly father’s rulebook before they die and He… well, let’s not talk about what will happen to them for eternity. It’s not very pretty.

Comment on You Might Be Surprised At The Top 20 Countries Where Christianity Is Growing The Fastest by qxe

qxe — Tue, 08 Sep 2015 18:20:00 +0000

Christianity always flourishes where uneducated people struggle to live in poor, harsh conditions – it’s a psychological salve that promises a bountiful afterlife and possibly a smidgen of god’s blessings if they convert now. This is why missionaries travel to Africa; that culture there is ripe with centuries upon centuries of superstitious belief, perfect to insert the crazy belief system of any flavor of Christianity.

One ray of hope is that as powerful as the mind-virus meme of Christianity can spread and protect itself, the main weakness that overcomes it is the simple, cleansing sunshine of scientific and other repositories of information on the internet. As computing devices and broadband access becomes cheaper and cheaper, that sunshine with spill its rays into the darkest corners of Africa and other bastions of ignorant superstitious fervor and the youth will share their new knowledge with their friends. Eventually they’ll grow up and stop infecting their children.

In a couple of generations, Christianity will be viewed by most as, at best, a silly tradition practiced by uneducated grandparents and at worst, dangerous infection that must be inoculated against lest it spread.

Comment on 7 Tongue-in-cheek Ways To Survive Being Single On The Mission Field by Reiner Hennig

Reiner Hennig — Tue, 08 Sep 2015 15:08:00 +0000

I lived single for God since my twenties, until God led me to marry a missionary, I had prayed for, when I was 3 weeks before 60 and to go with her to the mission field. During my time as a single I found the following things most helpful:
1) To love Jesus and to receive His Love. For that it is very helpful to spend much time together with Him, to pour out my heart to Him and to really be open for the things which are important to His heart.
2) God’s Love is poured out into our hearts by the Holy Spirit. To let out that love to the person, that encounters you right now is a wonderful and fulfilling experience.
3) To spend time with brothers and sisters, to share and to listen and to be simply around can be a great help.
4) If you really want to follow Jesus it is very difficult to be one flesh with a person, who doesn’t want to follow Jesus totally or not at all. Better no partner than a wrong one.
5) To prepare you for certain tasks, God needs sometimes very long periods of time, times, when you don’t see much happening in His Kingdom through you, when you don’t receive the honor you think you are entitled to. We both went through long difficult times, but we see the things we learned then as a very great help for our ministry now.
6) If you find a person that might be you partner for life: Talk a lot, a lot, a lot about what you believe, how you handle money, how you want to raise children, how much do you live by faith, what you expect from your partner. Would he/she be ready to put Jesus first and you second? What will you do, if your ministry becomes dangerous? Are you both really ready for every way God leads you?
I went with my wife to a village in western Thailand, and we both had a very big surprise: God had prepared my by my background and my life and experiences so much, that I hadn’t any difficulty to cope with the new situation there at once, and I am at ease with the mentality here, and are able to understand lots of things in the mentality here from within. We had written a lot via SKYPE, before we married, and in our marriage we were very much surprised by the fact, that we have been one in Jesus in so many aspects of our life and our ministry. We only can say: The long time we had to wait was worth while.
When we married, I had some severe deficits, but God has changed me a lot for the better during the 5 years of our marriage, and we love each other now much more than at the day of our marriage.

Comment on You Might Be Surprised At The Top 20 Countries Where Christianity Is Growing The Fastest by rasungod0

rasungod0 — Tue, 08 Sep 2015 10:28:00 +0000

Christianity is losing ground rapidly in the first world where education is available. That’s why they target the second and third worlds where education is restricted or unavailable.

Comment on 7 Missionary Traps To Avoid On The Mission Field by David Joannes

David Joannes — Mon, 07 Sep 2015 06:35:00 +0000

In reply to Beth Musgrave. Yes, she did a great job writing this article. It's help trend the whole website more than it ever had previously!

Comment on 7 Missionary Traps To Avoid On The Mission Field by David Joannes

David Joannes — Mon, 07 Sep 2015 06:35:00 +0000

In reply to Zach Greenlee. Share away! Thanks for the shout out!