Derek Thomas, at the First Presbyterian Jackson MS blog, shares the answers some missionaries gave to the question, "What do you wish that the American church understood?"
time is short and we should live with a view to eternity rather than for the accumulation of things here on earth the church is not about being American we are far too isolationistic and individualist we need the community of the world-wide church as much as they need us; we have a great deal to learn from the church in the rest of the world in a generation from now, the church in Asia and Africa will be far bigger and more influential than the church in the United States stop putting missionaries on pedestals and start seeing them as ordinary Christians with temptations and struggles like the rest of the church we need to be held accountable and it be wonderful if you would call us on the telephone once in a while and hold our feet to the fire we want to know what's going in back home as much you want to know what's going on in the field of mission
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