Musings and meditations about missions from a missionary.
Resumen: This post explains what is a missionary “biblical speaking”. It examines the Bible to see how the concept is developed in the New Testament, and how it should be understood by us, and how we should obligate “missionaries” to be.
Fix WordPress Error is an article about “my experience” in fixing WordPress software problems on a website. This is a help to those who have, use, or maintain WordPress websites. I will change and add to this post over time, so please check back.
Note: This post comes from years of working with 30+ WordPress websites that I own. I am not responsible if you goof up your website. Use this advice at your own risk.
Missionary Record Journal Book is an article about how to keep odds and ends of information for missionaries in just a blank book.
In Organize your WorkFlow with Total Commander I am making comments on how to keep tabs on all “your stuff” you are working on at once.
Missionary Document Organization Helps is a post by a missionary of 30+ years to help new missionaries (or veteran missionaries) organize their life and ministry.
Keeping a Missionary Travel Log is simply a record of where you and every member of your family have been over the years.
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).
Many times in our day and age, a missionary needs to get some piece of information to people who are computer illiterate. That means sending a paper and ink letter. When the postal service in the country is just not up to par (I have had a letter from Mexico to the US take up to 6 months to get there, and many times they get lost in the mail), you need some other way of getting that letter out.
When a person chooses to be a missionary, there are certain sacrifices that they make in order to partake in this kind of ministry. Essentially you lose a lot of your “identity” to become a missionary. The simple question, “Where are you from?” becomes a complicated question because while I was born and raised in South Carolina, I have spent more time in Mexico than the US. Mexican people we visit. Sometimes they joke saying, “David is more Mexican than we are!” I have adapted to Mexican culture and foods, and I really like at least most of the Mexican foods.
But this price we pay is difficult to handle many times. You kind of “lose your identity” in the process of being a good missionary. We must celebrate the Mexican holidays and basically follow the Mexican culture, because you just cannot survive without doing that. Image if a Mexican was to pastor your church and not celebrate the Fourth of July! He would be extremely out of sync with the people he is trying to reach.
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