Ep 17 | The Secret to Joy in Hard Seasons | Dick Brogden

Wow.

How is that, um, cause that's not just their story.

I'm guessing that was rooted also in conviction and that conviction to go maybe even intentionally, uh, I don't know, I'm just curious for you, you're raising up, you're pouring into, you're leading a movement of missionaries and people are going onto the field.

How has that shaped the way you help them think about God providing for what they need? maybe the importance of that.

Because I think a lot of people would go, man, that's irresponsible.

Or that's not, you know, what is that person doing? Like, they've got kids.

You can't just go with $50.

And yet there was a conviction that drove that.

I'm just curious how that conviction shapes the way you would talk to people who are going into ministry or, or into any calling that God is moving them into who's thinking, well, I don't have the resource to do that.

Or it would be unwise for me to pursue.

I need to wait.

Cause that's what a lot of people do.

I just need to wait until I'm ready.

I need to wait until I've got more funding and then I can independently fund my, my missions work or whatever.

How would you talk to somebody about that?

I think most things start theologically, and I love your question because it addresses a fundamental misconception that we go to give or that we go to teach.

What if we go to receive? What if we go to learn? So rather than being this kind of colonial imperial, here I am, the great white, black, Hispanic hope, I am the answer to all of these benighted people's needs.

What if it's actually we benefit more by going than by staying? And what if it is in that nothing, in that smallness, Jesus becomes very big, very real, and very sufficient? So I think it really, really, that experience really helped us to say, you know, missions is not about you being the answer.

You're not the answer.

You're not the answer financially.

You're not the answer theologically.

You're not the answer emotionally.

But you know who is.

So if you come in lowly, if you come in as a learner, you're actually a much better missionary than if you come in as the answer.

And that takes some deconstruction because we all think, oh, those poor don't have anything.