Lottie Moon or Ex-Pimps: A Young Missionary Sums It Up
Posted by C. Holland on Feb 18, 2010Over at Wrecked For the Ordinary, a young missionary has written a great piece about people’s perceptions (and, more importantly, misperceptions) about missionaries today. Without knowing it, she’s summed up quite a few of the themes and threads here at my blog. Best quote:
“It feels like what I am alluding to is something like this: ‘I am a professional at telling people about Jesus. And you’re not, cause you work a 9-5. Only, I shouldn’t say professional, because I am on (cringe) support. Wanna give me money?’”
Check it out here: “Lottie Moons or Ex-Pimps: We’re All Missionaries”
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February 18th, 2010 at 11:46 pm
Thanks for sharing this link with us. Reminds me, too, of the statement… “We like to be called servants, but we hate being treated like servants.” One of our supporting churches has had huge celebration mission conferences in which they call the missionaries their “heroes.” Don’t like that either…
February 19th, 2010 at 12:03 am
You might find this interesting… from the author Ted Dekker’s blog…
http://www.teddekker.com/2009/05/14/the-baby-the-whole-baby-nothing-but-the-baby-so-help-us-god/
February 20th, 2010 at 3:39 pm
@Roxie: I agree about the “hero” thing. You probably remember this post from October about it: http://www.missionaryconfidential.com/the-best-of-intentions-missionary-superhero