Living Among Your Mission Field

The Lord calls us to go and make disciples of the world.  We are all called to be reaching people with the love of Christ. I have learned to effectively show a person the love of Christ, you must at some level become like them. Some of the missionaries here live like a white collar worker.  In a world, where minimum wage is 65 dollars a
month, some of these missionaries stay in 350-500 dollar a month apartment complexes.   In a town where very few people have cars, some missionaries are driving 20,000 dollar cars...25 years of a minimum wage workers salary.

I would never say to be wealthy and have nice things is outright sinful but you must look at who you think the Lord is telling you to reach.  As my dream is being fulfilled, to work beside local poor Nicaraguans every day doing construction, their attitudes towards this lifestyle show.  They outright tell me that they don't respect some of
the people that work here because they show up and tell them what to do and leave.

I know that they are first and foremost here for the kids but i see the workers as a huge opportunity to begin to change the community. If you began to change workers into people that can change others, you began to improve the whole community.

Phillipans 2 says that our attitude should be like Jesus that even though he was God he humbled himself to become a man and was obedient to that... all the way to obedience of death on a cross.  I think that we need to chew on how Jesus didn't just tell us how to live but walked beside us and showed us how to live too.