A mentor allows a missionary to bypass a lot of painful errors… When I was a kid, my friends and I were into video games. And I for one was not very good. It was a pre-internet (i.e. lame) age, so if we wanted to have any kind of help in our gaming endeavors, we […]
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How to Make Believer Popsicles
Last night we celebrated our church’s three year anniversary. And we celebrated as only the Body of Christ can: with baptism and the Lord’s Supper. It was awesome. One of the Chinese guys preached and supervised the Supper, and another one of them baptized a couple guys from the Bible study that he runs on […]
The Missionary and the Mentor
‘Who is your mentor?’ This is the question that I would ask every young man in the Gospel ministry if I could. Please don’t think I would or could ask it from any position of superiority. It would be a challenge from one who stands in common need, and has graciously been allowed to benefit […]
Thou Shalt Not Rejoice…
Well, I wasn’t sure what direction to take this blog, so I decided the best thing to do would be to quit until I had an opportunity to stare out at the ocean contemplatively. But as I live a good hike from any oceans, I finally just settled for a coin toss. That was like, […]
And You Think You’re Bold?
My wife had an interesting experience when she was in the grocery store the other day. A couple college students walked up to her in the paper-products aisle with Bibles in their hands and started to share their faith with her. Mormons, I think. Pretty standard form of ‘evangelism’: chattering on endlessly about some doctrine […]
Sinners or Criminals
So one of the big issues in witnessing in China is supposed to be this problem with the word ‘sin.’ It’s definitely a problem, but I’m not sure it’s for the reason that is normally presented. The reason usually given is a linguistic one (most attempts to explain people’s mentality by their language are pretty […]
Ask Away
First-time visitor came up to me after church last night and said, ‘I have a question, but I hope it’s not offensive.’ Okay… ‘Why would you say that all people are sinners?’ He was relieved that his question was welcome, not offensive. Guy thought he was going to offend me by not agreeing completely with […]
Culture: The Same In A Different Way
I read recently (in The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb) about a study done by Science about national identity. The basic finding of the project, which surveyed members of 49 cultures, was that there is basically no correlation between nationality and character. Or, in other words, your bad temper has nothing to do with your […]
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