Visitors and Gospel Vignettes, 2

Part of the purpose of Nathan and Andy's visit was better understand our lives and ministry here to communicate it with the church in the States.  It's a funny thing putting our story in someone else's hands.  Did we show them enough?  Did we communicate clearly?  How can three years of living be condensed into one week of visiting?

It made me think of the great risk God took entrusting his story to us.

"The risk that we will badly misrepresent him.  Slavery, the Crusades, pogroms against Jews, colonialism, wars, the Ku Klux Klan - all these movements have claimed the sanction of Christ for their cause.  The world God wants to love, the world God is appealing to, may never see him; our own faces may get in the way."  (Disappointment with God, Philip Yancey)

Likely Andy and Nathan will tell our story better than we have.  By divine inspiration, they had the idea to interview our national workers and capture the story of our lives here directly from the ones who are impacted.  To continue the analogy, I think this video represents Scripture and the Spirit as the firsthand accounts we use to tell God's story.

Can you imagine our great and mighty God put his reputation in our hands?  He took that risk and now we, his followers, are the image of God in the world.

Let us be so.