{"id":2063,"date":"2018-02-18T16:54:29","date_gmt":"2018-02-18T22:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/?p=2063"},"modified":"2018-02-18T16:54:29","modified_gmt":"2018-02-18T22:54:29","slug":"an-open-bible-and-an-open-map","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/discipleallnations.org\/members\/2018\/02\/an-open-bible-and-an-open-map\/","title":{"rendered":"An Open Bible and an Open Map"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was a college student when on a family vacation, we made a stop in El Paso, Texas, and for the first time in my life, I crossed the U.S. border into a foreign country, Mexico. A few years later I went with my Dad to a meeting in Detroit, Michigan and crossed over the U.S. border again, this time into Canada. Little did I know that in the years to follow I would cross fifty-nine foreign borders (and I\u2019m not through yet). Every country, every culture, has made its contribution to my life.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been more comfortable in some than others, very uncomfortable in a few, and even scared in a few others; but I am a better person for each visit, and I feel sorry for people who have not had the opportunity to travel outside of their culture.\u00a0 Mark Twain said, \u201cTravel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.\u201d But there is more.\u00a0 Travel is a part of the plan of God, a part of missions. \u00a0God\u2019s map includes the entire world. Those who don’t believe in global missions have not carefully read the New Testament. From the beginning Jesus said, \u201cthe field is the world\u201d (Matthew 13:38). The early church took Him at His word and went across every border, in every direction.\u00a0 God\u2019s command is to \u201cGo!\u201d but most have stayed, busying themselves in their homeland, never lifting their eyes to other fields that are \u201cwhite for harvest\u201d (John 4:35).\u00a0 In a day when so many countries are open, and travel is relatively inexpensive, it may be a sin not to go, or in the case of one who absolutely cannot go, a sin not to assist others who do go.\u00a0 Perhaps because of my traveling, I resonate with missionary William Carry who said, “To know the will of God, we need an open Bible and an open map.”\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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