It is fundamental to our life in God that if our relationship with God is not first then our mission/evangelistic experience will be less than flash, there are a number of reasons for this statement the first of which is that we need to be moved by Him, the second is that people will respond to our God life as it effects them in theirs, remembering that a) we can do all things through Christ Jesus and b) it is the love of God that draws people to God. There is another aspect of the call of God and getting your call off the ground. That question is the period between call and launch.
If I can provide a personal my call to mission was as a raw teenager with no life skills and little readiness to serve. Stage two in this process was Theological School which was much the same assessment; raw, little readiness to serve, and still little life skill. Thinking back on that time it should have been obvious to all and sundry, except us there was two of us fellas who were under 20 and possibly 6 times that number who were over 25; each of them had good work history and even better personal skills.
There is another qualification that counts above all. The time when God the Father decrees that you are done with your preparation and now I send you in My Name to supply new life to those you will meet and love in my name. There is a passage written in the OT book of Ecclesiastic Solomon goes through and draws life together in God time and in one highly merited where he outlines all sort of times with the the pitty statement that goes “There is a season to Dah Dah Dah” and goes to with “There is a time not to Dah Dah Dah” If you haven't found it yet try around Ecclesiastes Chap 3.
I am not suggesting that there is a power of politics going on between the factions involved passing callow young missionaries from living in Centre, Metro, and even Side Sight that may end in embarkation for the Mission board, the candidate, and even to the community that was building trust in trust in the missionary gone wrong
It is possible that this loosing boundary, which it often is by extensive work to restart the process with the people who have had an grievance filed with their personal comfortless in this situation. Maybe a solution could be found when Richardson created the made Peace Child Jesus. As long as the child lived the the warriers had a covenant of peace.
Please remember that in all of this Father God is the one who has His plans to do good to us. I there a greater power that can stop this outcome?
It is a fundamental truth that mission. without the oversight of Father is self directed. God must be the source of our energy, and direction, whatever we attempt with others. As far as mission is concerned our efforts must be birthed in God unless in our velour we set to seal a person for Christ that Heaven had not counted no. The second aspect that this young person may not have a good grips on the sayings of Jesus and in unbounded joy may introduce elements foreign to the was of Jesus.
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