tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22981256.post115634647146446932..comments2023-11-03T05:55:53.586-07:00Comments on Full Court Presby: Mission - Clarity NeededUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22981256.post-1156420861612348112006-08-24T05:01:00.000-07:002006-08-24T05:01:00.000-07:00If my memory of the process is correct the PCUSA s...If my memory of the process is correct the PCUSA sends the type of mission co-workers requested by the partner denominations.<BR/><BR/>If there are a lot of seminary professors then that is what is being requested by the partner churches around the world. I'd guess that means they have plenty of potnetial pastors but need help in training them.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22981256.post-1156377029664415022006-08-23T16:50:00.000-07:002006-08-23T16:50:00.000-07:00Lance... I like ready your blog... It gives me ins...Lance... <BR/><BR/>I like ready your blog... It gives me insite to the changes we can expect to see at Evergreen. Thanks for the prayers - they are with me all the way in China! Give everyone my best - I hope to see you all during the Christmas holiday.Staceyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11314339330012094882noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22981256.post-1156356956894652872006-08-23T11:15:00.000-07:002006-08-23T11:15:00.000-07:00I don't have anything against the Peace Corps. I ...I don't have anything against the Peace Corps. I would be happy if one of my sons went into the Peace Corps. My son would be a Christian in the Peace Corps but that is not what the vast majority of us would call mission work. <BR/><BR/>Part of being a missional Christian means we see all followers of Jesus to be missionaries wherever they are. I hope all the folks we send out, no matter what job they do are also finding ways to be about the task of proclaiming the Gospel and helping to make discipiles but unless that is spelled out in their job descriptions I find reason to doubt that it is being done and if it is not being done then they are not missionaries. <BR/><BR/>Add to that how few of our missionaries have as their primary purpose the proclaiming of the Gospel and making of disciples and you start to understand why Presbyterians are, as a group, the number one contributor to World Vision, Samaritans Purse, Campus Crusade, and on and on the list could go. <BR/><BR/>We are to give the cup of cold water in Jesus' name---in fact, we are to do all things in Jesus' name. I understand that to mean that we are sharing Jesus, telling about Jesus, inviting others to come to know Jesus and follow Him as we go about our living. That should be listed as job number 1 of every missionary no matter what other job they are being called into. When that is done then the mission money will again flow freely back into our denomination's mission work.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22981256.post-1156352810914294152006-08-23T10:06:00.000-07:002006-08-23T10:06:00.000-07:00Lance,I thought I was the only one who had clicked...Lance,<BR/>I thought I was the only one who had clicked on the missions connections website and then read the resumes of the missionaries. I got as far as the missionaries whose last name began with the letter D.<BR/><BR/>Like yourself, I found a lot of educators and what I would call "Peace Corps workers".<BR/><BR/>My Webster's dictionary defines a Missionary as follows:<BR/><BR/>"A ministry commissioned by a religious organization to propogate its faith or carry on humanitarian work"<BR/><BR/>What seems to be glaringly lacking in the PCUSA mission field are missionaries who propogate our Presbyterian faith.<BR/><BR/>I also note we have some folks who are political activists operating under the guise of being a missionary. One name particularly comes to mind. Nuhad Tomeh is a mission co-worker in Lebanon who works for the Middle East Council of Churches. Each time a group from the PCUSA visited with and said complimentary things about the Hezbollah terrorists, it was Nuhad Tomeh who had made the arrangements for those visits.<BR/><BR/>You are being a good "teaching elder" to show your "ruling elders" this information about the PCUSA ministers. I pray you will become an example for other churches to follow.<BR/><BR/>For too long the 11,000 churches in the PCUSA have sent money to Louisville in support of the mission program and have never asked any questions as to what the missionaries were specifically doing. I suspect most churches assumed the PCUSA missionaries were doing the work of the Lord as defined by Webster.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22981256.post-1156352566905840312006-08-23T10:02:00.001-07:002006-08-23T10:02:00.001-07:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Xtrsk33rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08480607167447080619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22981256.post-1156352536784613592006-08-23T10:02:00.000-07:002006-08-23T10:02:00.000-07:00Oh wow, it's been a while since I have heard the p...Oh wow, it's been a while since I have heard the phrase "bible thumper". <BR/><BR/>I had the privelage of speaking to a woman who with her parents were missionaries in China before, during, and after the Boxer Rebellion. Her father was set for execution by beheading because he was (in your words) a "Bible Thumper". When the executioner's sword came down on his neck the blade had miraculously (by God's Will) switched to the dull edge sparing his life.<BR/><BR/>When I think of people willing, past and present, to give their life to spread God's Word I find it incredibly angering and ignorant to refer to them as "Bible Thumpers".Xtrsk33rhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08480607167447080619noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22981256.post-1156348909028281632006-08-23T09:01:00.000-07:002006-08-23T09:01:00.000-07:00Any job can be a part of God's mission. Why not l...Any job can be a part of God's mission. Why not let God judge what a "missionary" is, instead of judging the positions available.<BR/><BR/>Many countries have had enough bible thumpers...they need someone with education and experience to actually HELP them in life, and that person along the way can point the local people to the TRUE life-giver...Christ.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com