You came to \u201csave the world,\u201d to win souls, to invade the culture with the good news of freedom in Christ.\u00a0 You\u2019ve been doing ministry stateside for years and are used to a high level of ministry involvement. To put it plainly, \u201cIt\u2019s different here.\u201d<\/p>\n
You quickly learn two things.\u00a0 God is going to do a work in the people, and He is going to give you a front row seat!\u00a0 The victories and successes in ministry will actually have little to do with you. It will clearly be ALL HIM!\u00a0 Coming to face this reality will help you greatly through culture shock.\u00a0 You thought that you would do a great work for God and now you realize it may not be so.\u00a0 Part of the pain of culture shock is the heavy realization that you may never be fluent in the language, may never totally know what people are saying and feeling.\u00a0<\/strong> This may be excruciating to you.<\/p>\n Then, why did God send you here?\u00a0 He sent you to be light.\u00a0 And light is reflected quite brightly despite language barriers because of your priority to the first three relationships!\u00a0 Your commitments to God, your spouse, and to your family are all effective at communicating God\u2019s light of truth.<\/p>\n As you live God fearing, honest, faithful, family centered lives, you will find that God has used you to proclaim Him with integrity. Your witness has become bright and effective! With joy you realize that not only have you passed through \u201cculture shock,\u201d and YOU have become a \u201cDiamond in the Dump.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Nurture Your Ministry. You came to \u201csave the world,\u201d to win souls, to invade the culture with the good news of freedom in Christ.\u00a0 You\u2019ve been doing ministry stateside for years and are used to a high level of ministry involvement. To put it plainly, \u201cIt\u2019s different here.\u201d You quickly learn two things.\u00a0 God is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldsobright.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2153"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldsobright.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldsobright.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldsobright.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldsobright.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worldsobright.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldsobright.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldsobright.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldsobright.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldsobright.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}