Perspectives

Playing with this boy is one of my favorite memories of Guatemala.  It has nothing to do with this blog entry - unless you consider that this picture (with all the flowers and green) was taken in January.  Aah, for a land without snow and icicles.

We all see life from a different perspective don’t we.  I can’t stand snow, it’s cold and wet and messes up my clean floors.  Abigail on the other hand thinks that snow is wonderful and could play in it all day.  We look at Guatemala and see beauty, while others see the pollution and trash.  Different perspectives, and that’s OK.

We are finding that there are many different perspectives on missions as well.  Some look at the work that we will be doing and consider it secondary, while we see the “prototype citizens of the future” as greatly needing missionaries.  Some argue that we need to keep all of our missionaries state side to work here, while others feel that more need to go overseas.

We recently started taking a course called “Perspectives” put on by the US Center For World Mission.  We have a whole (big) textbook full of many different perspectives on missions.  We are going to be teaching a Sunday School class at church that is designed to give people a more global perspective.  What is your perspective?  Is it in line with God’s perspective?