May 8, 2004

• Missions Conference at CBC

  Last night, Pam did a ten-minute shpewl right before James Hudson Taylor.  Seriously, I never felt so proud.  Here is one of my best friends, a real-live missionary.  An American Born Chinese who served in China for two years and now speaks Mandarin so eloquently.  But what made me so proud of her was not the Chinese but what she said.  She was challenging and exhorting the congregation to go overseas.  I looked around me and saw 70-year old white-haired ladies and 40-50 yr old professionals.  And there was Pam not even flinching as she urged everybody to go.  I was struck by how bold was her message.  It's a must.  Step out of the boat.  Amen to that.

  Dr. Taylor really knows how to speak to your heart.  Humble old saint who really loves God.  He reminded me again that God's desire for the nations to know Him and worship Him was always His passion from the beginning.  Genesis 12.  God blessed Abram, so that he would be a blessing to all the peoples on earth.  All peoples, all nations.  That's the Great Commission right there.

  During this morning's session, I started daydreaming about being in China and somehow getting to teach Bible stories in an English class.  That woud be fun.  I had to shake myself out of daydreaming for a second, but I realized something!  My daydreams can be reality.  What a thought!

  Anyway, it made me realize that it's not that I'm opposed to serving in China (I just want to see the lost come to know Jesus!).  It's just that I think that the older Chinese generation who have been in the States for 30-40 yrs have a hold on this field.  They can go back - with the language that they are already so good at - and equip the saints in China.  The locals are gearing up and ready to go westward to the Muslim world.  China's already "reached" in a sense.  So I want to go elsewhere.  To the unreached!  It's gonna be all the nations one day all around the Throne worshiping the Lamb.  I want a part in bringing the gospel to one of these unreached nations.  That's all. 

  Maybe that's not what I will get to do.  But I just know that it is God's passion and so I want it too.  Wanting is different than willing.  I'm not just willing.  I am wanting.  Wanting is not based upon whether or not I think I'll make it out there.  (As a friend said to me the other day, "maybe you should go out there first and see if God's really called you.")  I already know that I'm not gonna make it.  Without God, I won't make it.  But that's not the matter in question.  I don't need to go to know that God has called me.  The Bible is so clear that this is God's passion.  He's called all of us.  Read the Bible in context, and you will see it too.  We are all blessed to be blessings to others!

  No doubt.   Anyway, don't miss James Hudson Taylor III.  If you can make it, come to the English service at CBC at 10:45 this Sunday and the afternoon session at 2pm.  It'll be worth it.  Pam, Daniel, Cindy, Dave Yu, Steve and Stan will be leading worship.  Whoot!  =)

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