Many national pastors are in foreign aid the solution to their economic problems, and an opportunity to "expand the work ". If you do not receive aid, will be upset. If the received and is removed, also bother! Moreover, this" help "creates dependency.
dependence not only hurt people that becomes dependent but puts a burden on the people they depend. dependence weakens both the receiver and the sender. Another feature is that malicious dependency develops much easier and faster of what can be cured. In this aspect of the missions, an ounce of prevention is worth a biblical one ton of cure painful!
The goal should be the same as that of the New Testament: establish churches to sustain, govern and propagate themselves.
Unit is to get something for nothing and grow dependent on it . Dependence requires that some people are "givers " so that others are " receptors." The dependence gives a false sense of well being. It becomes an insidious state of mind that can weaken generation after generation once they become established. In new emerging churches can be a disease that weakens and even a fatal disease.
The purpose of the missions is to plant the Church of Christ, with local flavor, including groups of local people . The purpose is not to transplant our flavor of the church of Christ so that local people are accustomed. True local churches spread, and spread govern themselves. The local church is not really to be able to function on its behalf to carry out Christ's commission, with no outside contribution.
The reason for churches that are capable of being independent is that each church has to carry out a mission. If the church is dependent on foreigners who have to leave the church can no longer carry out its mission.
Another reason why all churches should be able to function independently because it is the most efficient way to carry out the Great Commission that Christ delegated to His church. And this is the way Christ taught us to build His church.
Releasing a missionary to move also frees the missionaries to do what God has entrusted to do. What's more, the sooner a local church to function on their own are more likely to be send his missionaries to reach those groups of people.
The unit has two features very dangerous. First, can be spread with good intentions and with malice . It's just as deadly as if given a potion by mistake. Second, is much harder to stop than start; the best remedy for the unit is the prevention .
the church to learn to govern itself is harder and learn how to sustain itself is often the most difficult of all . Disservice to missionaries when we measure their effectiveness mainly by the number of people in church planting.
is much easier to give something to someone to teach them to do so, and is easier to give people fish instead of teaching him to fish. If you give a man a fish, you have fed him for a day and probably created the principles of dependency. If you feed him for several days and then you stop, he why bother . But if you teach him to fish, you have fed him for a lifetime and gave him the ability to feed others.
The Great Omission, Steve Saint.
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