I am passionate about a few things. One of the things I am very passionate about is world missions. As evidenced by recent life choices, missions and the world harvest is one of the greatest (second only to my family) passions and purposes in my life. I recently had a very wise and more experienced minister give me some really good advice. Linus LeFever of Acts 29 Ministries was a member of the pastoral team on my recent trip to Davao. He told me, "Don't let you passion turn into aggression." Now what does that mean? It means don't let something that you believe in so strongly become an aggression that pushes people away. A person can be humble even though he has great passion for what he is doing. Someone who has his passion morph into aggression is not so humble, and now we see his passion turning into a prideful arrogance. This kind of aggression can lead to burnout. I truly appreciate this piece of advice, and I am sure I will be chewing on this for quite some time.
You may recall we have been directing missionary internships for 15 years. We recently completed the first ever Go To Nations (GTN) Timothy Internship Program in the United States (Jacksonville, FL). Five new missionaries were equipped and empowered, they have been filled up and are ready to be sent out!
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