10 INDICATORS

10 Indicators That Your Missions Program Has A Problem

1) The church "mission guy" always allows his emotional desires to override the Spirit's direction, failing to extend grace to others. (A lesson this blogger needed to be reminded of recently.)

2) The missionary field easily becomes a topic for the latest round of political posturing.

3) Missions is always someone else's call or gift.

4) The mission field is always somewhere I am not.

5) We can't believe that God would really want to save "those people".

6) Saving Muslims, Hindus, Atheists, Buddhists, etc. where they live is a missions opportunity, but if these same individuals come here to our country and our churches they are somehow a threat.

7) Everyone seems just too busy for missions.

8) "We support that one guy, right?"

9) "Missions? Oh right, that's where we send checks to those foreigners who seem to always hound us for money."

10) "Look at us we support 100 missionaries at $10.00 per month!"


Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful; and let us consider how to stimulate one another to love and good deeds, not forsaking our own assembling together, as is the habit of some, but encouraging one another; and all the more as you see the day drawing near. -- Hebrews 10:23-25