We had the opportunity on Saturday to bring some of our reflections/questions about "missions" to a group at the Nicaraguan Brethren in Christ Biblical Institute. We were ostensibly leading a workshop, but it's likely we learned more from them and they benefited more from one another.
Here are some highlights:
-Borrowing an idea from Luke Keefer, we compiled a list of consequences of sin (violence, hunger, sickness, broken families, etc.). When it came to listing "poverty," people had piercing and perceptive questions about what that word means. And shouldn't wealth be included too?
-One participant commented, "We believe that the gospel/salvation is holistic (not merely spiritual, but also physical and economic), but how do we communicate that without falling into a prosperity gospel (which is common here)--that God is going to give people wealth--it's a fine line . . . "
-A holistic picture of "conversion" as "turning"--with several examples from the Old Testament.
-It was really good for our Spanish too. We learned, for instance, that it's very hard to say 'Nebuchadnezzar' in Spanish (our homework is to practice this name 10 times).
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