"Missions is real. Missions is more than pictures displayed on a wall. Missions is about people making decisions that affect them for all eternity. I am here today because someone understood the reality of missions."- Neil Arias, Chilean national pastor and church planter
When missionaries report, we all love to see the pictures of the folks being impacted by our prayers and pocketbooks. Were we to travel to visit these missionaries (ooh, foreign travel under the guise of 'humble discipleship') we would come back with several memory cards full of photos of all that was taking place on that field of service.
But what if during your visit to the foreign field you were asked to show your photos. What pictures would you show THEM - what photos exist of the people YOU and I are reaching with the gospel? Who are you reaching? It all goes back to Pastor Neil's quote. Missions is REAL. It impacts REAL people. It takes place in the REAL world ... the world you and I move in and around every day.
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Very thought provoking blog post. You have articulated something that Dusten and I have been wrestling with for over a year now. How can we have an eternal, real, lasting impact on the world we live in everyday? How as a local church body can we have a real impact in our community, and what does that look like...??? Very convicting....
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