Tonight I gave a brief presentation at my parents' church (my former church) on our mission trip to South Africa. I spoke for about twenty minutes, showed some photos in PowerPoint and answered a few questions after. One of those questions caught me completely off guard.
A member of the church asked me if I would be willing to go on a trip to a place like, say, the jungle to witness to people who have never even seen a white person before. My response was yes, I would go if asked and after praying about it. The same individual says, But you could be killed. Would you still go then? I said yes, and turned my back to them so that they could see the other side of our "official" South Africa 2008 trip t-shirt (irony!). "My shirt has a quote from Jim Elliot, who was martyred in a similar sort of situation."
(The quote: "He is no fool who gives up what he cannot keep to gain that which he cannot lose.")
I said that if an individual truly believes that God is who He says He is and that if Jesus is who He says He is and that if the Bible is truly what it says it is...then how can you not? Our group ran the risk of making the wrong people angry in South Africa and it is also possible to be killed in America for your faith, although it is less likely.
All in all, it was a good presentation and I hope that this clay vessel was able to deliver the correct message to those who needed to hear it.
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