My respect and admiration for pioneer missionaries was given an incredible boost in the past three weeks. Working with people who had poor translations of the Bible, and asked to explain basic information about the Bible at multiple points. What takes me 20 minutes to do here. Took a minimum of 1.5 hours to cover.
I was working to equip the people there to fish. To discover from observation truth in the Word of God. It would have been much easier to just tell them what I wanted them to know. The problem with that, after I am gone, they will not be able to do that for themselves.
It was hard work. I was there four days. I thought how difficult it would be to work at that level for years. I can understand why people in that circumstance would simply dispense fish.
We face, at different levels, the same choice each day. It is much easier to tell people what we know, than it is to train them to get it for themselves. We need to choose to teach to fish each time.
It was hard work. I was there four days. I thought how difficult it would be to work at that level for years. I can understand why people in that circumstance would simply dispense fish.
We face, at different levels, the same choice each day. It is much easier to tell people what we know, than it is to train them to get it for themselves. We need to choose to teach to fish each time.
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