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We are often asked our thoughts about why a loving, merciful God would send tribal people with NO access to the Gospel to hell. The fact is we are not God and His word says in Romans 1- “They know the truth about God because he has made it obvious to them. For ever since the world was created, people have seen the earth and sky. Through everything God made, they can clearly see his invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature. So they have no excuse for not knowing God.”

We are not God and we can not assume that because it seems unfair or unjust to US, that it is wrong for God to do so. Thus the urgency for missions in today’s church.

In the book “Crazy Love” by Francis Chan (Which I HIGHLY recommend) he addresses the idea of God being fair and just and I love the way he puts it. He says, “God is the ONLY Being who is good, and the standards are set by HIM. Because God hates sin, He has to punish those guilty of sin. Maybe that’s not an appealing standard. But to put it bluntly, when you get your own universe, you can make your own standards. When we disagree, let’s not assume it’s HIS reasoning that needs correction.”

Just some thoughts I’d thought I share.

Something that has challenged me for a while now is this thought of a “Prosperity Gospel.” This idea that Christians should be wealthy and have lots of things because we are”christians” just sickens us. Yes God does bless us more  than we can ever imagine but what about the millions of believers in other countries that do not have 5 dollars to their name, and might live on the street and have no earthly valuables? These fellow brothers and sisters know what it’s like to have nothing, but they do know something that we may never know in our Christian walk…and that is that Jesus Christ is EVERYTHING to them.

I sometimes wonder what it would be like if we lost everything! If we became modern day Job’s and lost everything, if we would stand there, having just lost our family, our wealth, our homes, etc… and if we would say “the Lord gives & the Lord takes away; Blessed be the name of the Lord.” We know nothing of suffering for the name Christ. And I pray that we would not focus on what God can give us or what we “deserve” because we are believers. We deserve death, we deserve to be tortured for Christ.

Here is a short video from John Piper about this idea of “the prosperity Gospel.” The Prosperity Gospel

Hello everyone,

Well as most of you know we were planning to leave for Indonesia this January, but God has a different plan. We were contacted by New Tribes Leadership in Indonesia asking us to either come to Indonesia in November or wait until April. Financially there is no way we can leave for ministry in Indonesia in 2 months due to us only being at 30% of our recommended support. So it looks like we will not be leaving for Indonesia until April of 2010.

We know that God is n control but please pray for our attitudes and wisdom with decisions we have to make with this change in plans. We are so excited to go to Indonesia and and be part of the ministry that is going on over there but we value our time here with our church and relationships we have made and will make. Thank you so much for keeping us in your prayers and being a part of our ministry.

New Tribes has changed the layout of our website and we are in the process of updating and fixing things. Thank you so much for visiting our site and being interested in our ministry.