We are out with a sister church team this week and have been stunned by all the contrasts and changes within this small little village. The village is rustic with outhouses, adobe (dried mud/straw blocks) homes, they cook around an open fire and there are turkeys & sheep grazing nearby. It is amazing that a group of people whose culture appears unchanged for years, are so open to change. When we arrived to the village, the church had a welcome service for the team. At one point a few of the Guatemalan youth got up and shared a song or should I say rap with the team. I was amazed as I looked around the church at the congregation and saw all the men and women in all their traditional clothing clapping and laughing.
It made me start to think about us as Americans; are we open to making changes in order to reach others for Christ? Or do we prefer just to do it the way it has always been done? I think if we are truly going to reach the world for Christ, than we all have to be ready to make some big changes. I'm ready, who else is?
We are out with a sister church team this week and have been stunned by all the contrasts and changes within this small little village. The village is rustic with outhouses, adobe (dried mud/straw blocks) homes, they cook around an open fire and there are turkeys & sheep grazing nearby. It is amazing that a group of people whose culture appears unchanged for years, are so open to change. When we arrived to the village, the church had a welcome service for the team. At one point a few of the Guatemalan youth got up and shared a song or should I say rap with the team. I was amazed as I looked around the church at the congregation and saw all the men and women in all their traditional clothing clapping and laughing.
It made me start to think about us as Americans; are we open to making changes in order to reach others for Christ? Or do we prefer just to do it the way it has always been done? I think if we are truly going to reach the world for Christ, than we all have to be ready to make some big changes. I'm ready, who else is?
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