Comments on: Will the rest of the world please save the West? http://www.steveaddison.net/2007/02/15/the-scandal-of-foreign-missionaries.html Steve Addison's blog about movements for the renewal and expansion of the church. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:13:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Matthew http://www.steveaddison.net/2007/02/15/the-scandal-of-foreign-missionaries.html#comment-28716 Matthew Tue, 20 Feb 2007 16:42:37 +0000 http://www.steveaddison.net/2007/02/15/the-scandal-of-foreign-missionaries.html#comment-28716 I love this. What a mysterious thing! God bringing 'children' back to astray 'fathers'! Maybe we didn't realize that when we went with the resources God endowed the West with to the unreached over the last century or two, that we were planting our future preachers... What goes around comes around, I guess. In Germany, Africans have planted a lively church which is highly rhythmic and moving; a really stark contrast to the German culture. But it thrives. In Portland, OR we meet street preachers every now and then. But one meeting was rather unusual. A Chinese woman was boldly proclaiming the Gospel by herself. We told briefly that we were believers, and immediately she requested that she pray for us. So we all bowed right there together in the middle of the street. Not very usual with the street preachers really... I love this. What a mysterious thing! God bringing ‘children’ back to astray ‘fathers’! Maybe we didn’t realize that when we went with the resources God endowed the West with to the unreached over the last century or two, that we were planting our future preachers…
What goes around comes around, I guess.

In Germany, Africans have planted a lively church which is highly rhythmic and moving; a really stark contrast to the German culture. But it thrives.

In Portland, OR we meet street preachers every now and then. But one meeting was rather unusual. A Chinese woman was boldly proclaiming the Gospel by herself. We told briefly that we were believers, and immediately she requested that she pray for us. So we all bowed right there together in the middle of the street. Not very usual with the street preachers really…

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