21st Century Missions-1st century Christianity. Simple Discipleship, ethnicity, multicultural issues, anthropology, churrascos and a public display of my journey of faith, including my frustrations.
Tuesday, March 26, 2013
Friday, March 15, 2013
World traveler blogger? or Desktop missionary?
Trying to do some work today for a speaking engagement on Sunday. Tomorrow I am meeting all day with some entrepreneurs to think how to effectively do our Task using our natural given gifts and abilities without depending much on external resources. I got to think that just from a Pharisaic stand point, feeling better than those who are not doing what I do, and feeling absolutely irrelevant and negative on the way our Task is carry out by yours tryly, I suddenly realize that the new trend in the M world is to become a travel expert and a blogger. WE are known as a group of people who are trying hard to appear smart and sound like the experts and know it all, so becoming a world traveler blogger makes sense, except that no body gives a carrot about our journey, except a few old ladies at church.
SO this is how it goes down: You write stories about those exotic places and beautiful people that you live among, you tell how different they are, then you write how sorry you feel about their depravity, later you write how good that land would be without those heathens. The next day you write again, this time about your incompetence to make friends, blame iton the language, culture, homeschooling, whatever, except that you forgot to write that that you were also incompetent in your own culture, among your own kind, using your own language and in your own place, next month you write about how much you hate the culture, rats, Lyme disease and yucca root flour on top of your beans.
Finally, you write thinking that you are well on your way to become the next Rick Warren and your blog will get more hits than PSY's Gangmanstyle, or Harlem Shake, whatever... and no one cares, no one reads, no fruits, nothing.
We ache so our people will be transformed! we cry out for revival, we fearlessly defend reformation of our institutions, yet, we "leave everything behind"to go to the other side of the world to blog?
SO this is how it goes down: You write stories about those exotic places and beautiful people that you live among, you tell how different they are, then you write how sorry you feel about their depravity, later you write how good that land would be without those heathens. The next day you write again, this time about your incompetence to make friends, blame iton the language, culture, homeschooling, whatever, except that you forgot to write that that you were also incompetent in your own culture, among your own kind, using your own language and in your own place, next month you write about how much you hate the culture, rats, Lyme disease and yucca root flour on top of your beans.
Finally, you write thinking that you are well on your way to become the next Rick Warren and your blog will get more hits than PSY's Gangmanstyle, or Harlem Shake, whatever... and no one cares, no one reads, no fruits, nothing.
We ache so our people will be transformed! we cry out for revival, we fearlessly defend reformation of our institutions, yet, we "leave everything behind"to go to the other side of the world to blog?
Monday, March 11, 2013
More trianing? really?
Can any one give me a real reason why we try to train everybody that crosses the door and walks the ile? why we try to institutionalize everything? we talk about missional, organic, blablabla... yet we try to put out practices inside of a box. Why are we still sending M's like if we were in colonial times? Why are we so uncomfortable and afraid of letting go our stupid control? are we interested in transformation or in manipulating through power? why we love and seek to have a uniform at our churches but we hardly seek unity? Why forms and liturgy are more important than mercy, love and people?
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