Perspectives

Tuesday night a few of our Eastside folks attended a special "open night" of an ongoing class on world-wide missions. The 16 week class, Perspectives on the World Christian Movement, is offered each year at Golden Hills Community Church. One of our members, Ken Lopez, took the class last year and was really impacted by it. Butch Berton is taking it this year, and he's really pumped up as well. So, several of us attended this open session.

The speaker this week spent 20 years of his life in Papua New Guinea working with a people group that had no written language when they went and had been cannibals as recently as a few years before they arrived. It took them 6 years of living among them (I'd say incarnational is a good word here) to learn the language and culture well enough to teach them the gospel. The story of how these people responded was incredible... inspirational... a certain testimony of the power of the gospel in the hearts of those who "have ears to hear" the message.

All in all, it was one of the best Tuesday evenings I've had in a long time. One of those experiences that helps you take a hard look at your own attitudes and actions... and yield once again to the Spirit.