Wednesday, September 27, 2017
(7th in a series)
Haiti Missionaries
1st Peter 4:10
Jeannette and Ryan Karstensen
It is a
monumental responsibility to lead a mission trip to a foreign land. The people
who will be the recipients of your charitable efforts will most likely gain a
lifelong impression from the team’s comportment. If there is a language barrier,
then our demeanor and body language speaks for our faith. On this Haiti Mission
trip, there are eight folks from three different Churches with two on their
very first excursion. The bottom line is “God has given us some special
abilities,” and it is up to us to make them blend and become faithful stewards
of God’s Grace in all its forms.
Our repasts
together, breaking bread, are always a time to coalesce once again. Tuesday our
team was having lunch together and I presented them with Jeanette and Ryan’s
scripture passage from 1 Peter. We went around the table and each member of the
body reflected on how the Word spoke to them. I took notes as they shared. The
Holy Spirit translated as follows:
The mission
becomes our great commission when the true goal is “to make disciples of all
nations,” (Matt. 28:19). As the “Body of
Christ,” each one of us is a single chapter in Yahweh’s epic novel of grace
titled “Humankind.” The mission now
becomes a gifted quilt made of individual scraps, throwaway fabric that now
stitched together warms each soul it comforts. Our unique gifts manifested
become a tapestry of colors woven into Abba’s glorious creation of Love in His
Son Christ Jesus.
Often it is
through our willingness to serve and at the point of our Christian action where
we begin to discern what are the gifts we have received from our heavenly
Father. Surely for us to keep and maintain those gifts we must give them away.
Father, may we always remember your
precious gift of grace can never be earned and we will always be engulfed by it
as we give it away. Amen
Bradford
Bosworth
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