Mission Work. Q and A with Matthew

Matthew. What’s your thoughts on being called to spread the Gospel in foreign countries. Won’t their blood can be on our hands if we don’t?

LouieV. It depends on what you mean by being called. If we get called like Jonah got called, we will go, even if in the belly of a fish. 

   If we don’t maybe it’s because of the many from foreign countries immigrating here. It’s not uncommon to walk around in a shopping mall and hear many strange tongues.  What are we doing to spread the gospel to them? What of all the people we see, meet or interact with in our daily lives?  Are we letting our light shine that beckons to a lost and lonely world and that says “ Come unto me all ye that are heavy laden, I will give you rest?” Do people sense in us the peace that can only come from the Prince of Peace? Do we treat people with the respect and love that tells them we are all His children and loved by Him? Do we give off the air of wanting to serve our fellow man instead of wanting to be served? Is our language fitting of a unworthy sinner graciously saved? Is there anything in our demeanor that would appeal to a non Christian? 

People will always believe more on what they see than what they hear.  

Yes, Matthew before we worry about mission work in foreign countries let’s see how our mission work is going on this one. Which is every bit as, if not more important because we either affirm in the eyes of the world what we believe, or our message is ‘Hey, we really don’t take belief in God seriously, don’t look to us for affirmation.’  Especially in the case of us Hutterites with our distinctive dress code and our purposeful separation from the world. When we walk down the streets of our local western Canadian towns our peculiar dress shouts out to the world “We stand in accordance with what our Anabaptist forefathers burnt at the stake for, we believe in a Holy Christian community, forgiveness of sin and eternal life”! 

 Does our life show what our dress proclaims? Does our fruit accurately portray the Tree of Life? Are we a light to a watching world or are we potentially extinguishing any light that may arise in them?