It's Not Really What You Think...

I realized today in one of my Ecola intern classes that foreign missions isn't really what I thought it was. I guess I may have realized this last year at Ecola when we had our missions class, but I don't really remember.

Foreign missions doesn't always have to be wearing a loin cloth and joining a tribe and preaching the Word.

For most people, foreign missions is as simple as this:
1: Get a profession.
2: Take that profession to an unreached or less-reached part of the world.
3: Do your job of choice well and live intentionally to let your light shine so that people start asking questions.

If you take out step two, that's how Christians should be living locally anyway. It's just a matter of doing exactly the same thing in a less-reached part of the world. The only thing that makes it harder is adjusting to a new culture and finding fellowship there.

Foreign missions is much more appealing to me now that I know that having my career of choice and being a foreign missionary aren't mutually exclusive. I'm still a long way off from deciding, but I'm curious as to where I'm going to end up.

Not everyone is supposed to live in the jungle. Not everyone should have a preacher-style approach to missions. That is good to know.