I think today’s blog is going to be short and sweet. This is, again, one of the many reasons why I do what I do. It’s from Lisa Smith (July 08). I love seeing people awakened into things like this.
The World Race is as much about this refining process as it is about ministry. Intense community living, abandonment of comforts, exposure to so much pain in the world all begin to break down our facades of the Christian values that we have only pretended to fully possess. At a certain point in the journey, all masks are removed and the real attitudes of our flesh begin to come out. The exposure of these things within us is the first pains of change. Brokenness and surrender do not come easily, but we are following in the footsteps of a God who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made Himself nothing, taking on the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to death- even death on a cross! ~Philippians 2:6-8
So what do you think about it? Do you think that this missions experience through the World Race should be about us AND about the people we’re serving? What’s the good and the bad in that?
