• Jesus Christ,  Missions

    Missions Or Missiles

    I saw a car wreck the other day. I pulled over to see if I could help. The car had rolled down a steep bank into a ditch and hit a tree. Three teenage girls were screaming and walking around the car. I went down to see if there was anything I could do. An emergency team arrived and I backed off. As I got to the top of the bank I noticed a car full of teenage boys so I asked them if they knew the girls. They said they were friends. I wandered why they weren’t getting out of the car to help their friends. They didn’t seem…

  • Fiscal Cliff,  Missions

    The Real Fiscal Cliff

    However much money we end up surrendering to Washington next year, one thing is for certain – not one cent of it will go towards the cause of global evangelization. If we topple over the cliff on the first day of 2013 we may be able to afford extra health care, but it is pretty certain that we will, as a nation, support less global mission. My father-in-law, a veteran missionary, always used to say that the American global missions enterprise was directly connected to God’s hand of providence. Since the impulse of the Spirit is global missions, so goes the means to do it. However, just because God supplies the means…