Monday, 23 July 2007

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    I've just finished reading a book called "A Road to Reality" by K.P. Yohannan. For those of you who don't know who the guy is, he's is the founder and president of a missionary organization called Gospel for Asia. They train and send native missionaries because they believe it is the most effective way to reach the most unreached. Native missionaries know their language, culture and live on the same standards as the people they're reaching. That means you can fully support a GFA native missionary with a US$30 monthly support. We probably waste 30 bucks on nothing, don't we?

    Reading that book was very challenging to me and I would recomend it to anyone who really wants to go beyond entertainment Christianity. I know I do. But it gets hard if I'm really serious about it. I mean... how am I really involved in the Great Commision? Sure...I'm involved with Crusade so that must mean something...but am I really praying for my campus as much as I should? Am I praying at all? Am I really concerned with those going through life without ever hearing the Good News that God is for us? When I take my personal plans to the Lord, am I ruling out the possibility of being sent by Him to a place that might not be as comfortable as I'd like? And if believe God's sending me the workplace how can that further the Great Commission? Am I a witness to my peers? Do I look for ways I can share the Gospel with them? How do I manage the money I make? Am I supporting others who are willing to go? Since my expenses reflect my priorities in life, is God glorified by how I spend my money? I sing I surrender all to Him over and over, but do I really? I don't think so.

    What would it look like if the Christian church truly surrendered to God's will and plan and put them as the priority of their lives? What kind of impact we would make, were we truly the body of Christ on this Earth? Christ's hands and feet and mouths? But unfortunatelly we're way too busy trying to make our lives work out. Way too worried about our own happy endings and how to behave so maybe God can give us what we've been longing for (which a lot of times might end up being something other than God Himself). Yeah...it is pretty discouraging to look at my own life and see all the wasted potential multiplied by the spread of irrelevant self-centered Christianity all around.

    But there's hope. It gives me so much more reason to praise a God who chooses to work through such fallen creatures. A God who still has everything in control, despite our best efforts to ruin it all. A God that never gives up working in my life no matter how long the road to reality might be for me. I just have to keep taking my baby steps and He'll keep showing me I'm not quite there yet....until that great day. But I sure need to open my eyes to the reality that some of my beliefs and values and desires might not be true biblical Christianity and whenever I find this out, I should be willing to repent and let those beliefs and values and desires go. May God helps us all.

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