So how did I come up with the idea that going halfway around the world to tell people about Jesus would be a good idea for me? It might surprise you that it wasn't through fruit of some profound conviction that was the result of months of study and devotion. It might also surprise you that it wasn't some compelling call from God in an audible voice, commanding me to go forth and preach the gospel in a far off land.
The call of God for me to go into missions was more like an extension of passions that God rooted in my heart. Like I've mentioned before on here; I fantasized about smuggling bibles into China when I was in kindergarten, but I'm positive I didn't really know what that meant. That mostly came out of a sense of it being not fair that Christians in China had limited access to the bible.
So what was it about missions particularly that I seem to lean toward?
It might have started as just a meditation that people all over the world don't have in any sense of true peace, and worse; that the presence of the gospel in many of these places was either non-existent, utterly culturally illiterate, or extremely small. Ultimately, the God of the bible isn't getting the attention he deserves.
From there, it evolved into a biblical mandate. God has a people in every nation that have their names written in the Lamb's Book of Life from before the foundation of the world, and it's our pleasure to be the mean by which the gospel is delivered to them.
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Support Update!
God is good and he provides! I only have about 1k left to raise until I arrive at my goal!
Wednesday, February 8, 2012
Playing Bass and Finding a Place
Last weekend I served on the worship team for what might be the last time in a long while.
It was a pretty fun weekend musically, and I really enjoyed serving my home church one last time in this way. I hope it's not the last, but I know that I will be moving on to other things in other places.
As small as it seems, this has been a main focus in my life for the last 3 years. I would like to think I've grown as an artist a little, since my time off the mission field. The worship arts culture at my home church was in the middle of a sort of mini renascence by the time I got back in '09. Certain influential people and visions they cast resonated with many, me included. As a result this gave me a new perspective on culture, expression, and the pursuit of excellence in the church. This has deepened my worldview to large degree.
I think I know a few things that helps me find out my ultimate calling (however specific or general that happens to be) to know that God gives you good gifts, holy passions, and desires not just as an end unto themselves. He uses the things he puts and grows in you. You wouldn't expect to be a teacher if you had a strong desire, passion, and skill to be a lawyer. I think it's the same thing to a large degree.
I have no idea what my weird mix of passions and skills will yield in Christ, but I do know that all I posses to do is to the end that he has for me. All that by his growing, cultivating grace that has been at work in me for years.
If you resonate with this, and would like to know what this blog is all about click here. If you would like to help out financially after that, check out the upper right corner of the blog.
Peace.
As small as it seems, this has been a main focus in my life for the last 3 years. I would like to think I've grown as an artist a little, since my time off the mission field. The worship arts culture at my home church was in the middle of a sort of mini renascence by the time I got back in '09. Certain influential people and visions they cast resonated with many, me included. As a result this gave me a new perspective on culture, expression, and the pursuit of excellence in the church. This has deepened my worldview to large degree.
I think I know a few things that helps me find out my ultimate calling (however specific or general that happens to be) to know that God gives you good gifts, holy passions, and desires not just as an end unto themselves. He uses the things he puts and grows in you. You wouldn't expect to be a teacher if you had a strong desire, passion, and skill to be a lawyer. I think it's the same thing to a large degree.
I have no idea what my weird mix of passions and skills will yield in Christ, but I do know that all I posses to do is to the end that he has for me. All that by his growing, cultivating grace that has been at work in me for years.
If you resonate with this, and would like to know what this blog is all about click here. If you would like to help out financially after that, check out the upper right corner of the blog.
Peace.
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