August 14, 2012

Day seventeen, fifty three remaining. Forgive me while I play with the font size. I haven't posted on this blog for a week. Really grateful for the church's support for the trip. The question remains: How do you maximize $ 2,400 and twenty-eight days in another culture for the advance of the Gospel? What is the value of presence, teaching, encouraging to a people of another culture and language? What is the impact of incarnating the Gospel? What is the benefit to the senders? To those who go (who are sent)? To those who receive us on the other end? How are our lives impacted by those to whom we are sent? I cannot commend too much the brother in Christ who I'm joining as he makes his fifth trip to Vlad. Have you ever thought that only eternity will ultimately reveal the profit of our effort, energy, and labor for the Kingdom? We plant, we water, we till, and maybe we harvest - but mainly we work as faithfully and obediently as we have strength which He provides. And then we trust Him for the results and the fruit. We never graduate beyond the call to live by faith.  "And the government shall be upon His shoulders."