Donut Shop Conversations

So for 225 years, the missions world has been really dominated by Westerners.

The, the good news is that we've had success in global mission, and the church now outside the US is, you know, very influential.

It's growing, it's vibrant, it's large.

It's encouraging to see what's happened.

At the same time, about a third of the world's population continues to live in cultures where they will never hear the gospel.

They'll never have a friend who's a Christian.

Now, they could get on the internet and do some personal searching, but there's nothing in their world that would prompt them to do that unless it's supernatural.

And God can work that way, but God invites us in to be part of the process of helping them understand and know Jesus.

And so I would say that even though the global church is growing, and we have new opportunities for partnership, there's exciting things happening, yet there continues to be a need for missionaries.

But the fallout from colonialism, it's, it's not only been huge, it's gonna continue to be huge and roll forward into the future.

I've thought about whether we should do some kind of a series on the topic of colonial and, colonialism and mission, but as I think about what I do in my role in the missions community, I'm probably not the best one to tease that out.

And I'm curious as to, you know, what your thoughts are about that topic and about whether or not you'd be interested in helping us put together something, a set of conversations on that topic.

And I would say, too, I mean, music is probably a good, it's a good platform to think about these things.

What do they say? Music is a world within itself and a language we all understand.

[laughs] Quoting a prophet-

Yeah, yeah, yeah

... of, uh, of music there.

Yeah.

So, you know, I don't know how that might come up in conversations, but that would be interesting as well.

I don't really have a outcome agenda-

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but more of an exploration over time of the topic and, you know, what it means long term for the missions community.

Have you thought much about that?