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Fear of
going around to churches to raise support |
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Fear of
going overseas as a single |
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Going into
serious debt to buy a car |
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Going into
serious debt to buy a house |
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Falling in
love with a Godly Christian man or woman who has no desire to serve overseas. |
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Getting a
good job, and making lots of money to take care of one's family,
one's church and other worthwhile causes. |
There
is absolutely nothing wrong with any of these things for the average
Christian who does not feel a call to serve God overseas. But, for a
believer who feels the call, these things are
usually not an option, if you really, really, really want to make it
there.
I have many Christian friends who
when they were young wanted nothing more than to serve God
overseas. They got training at a Christian college somewhere...
and now, they work at a good-paying job, with their Christian spouse,
paying off the big truck, the nice car, the beautiful house...
I'm sure that, should Jesus tarry, all I will hear from them is how
they regret not having gone to serve God overseas. I hurt inside
already because of the lives they could have impacted in parts of the
world where there is no one
to explain the Good News to the people, and
that, these are the days, the moments, the minutes, the seconds, they
could do something about it, but that those moments of possible commitment
and action are constantly fading away from them.
How about you? What decisions
will you make about your future now that will impact the world
still waiting to hear the Good News of God's
salvation? |
