What Did Your Parents Teach You?

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  1. John of Japan Well-Known Member
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    Straightened out your head and heart, eh what? :jesus:
     
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    As a pastor's son I knew a few missionaries on a personal level, one I am still in contact with in Australia. So we always were mission minded.
     
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    Amen! :thumbs:
     
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    Me folks taught me nuttin cuz they knew nuttin. Dad was raised, kinda, in a methodist home but doubt it was even very methodist. Mom was in a Christian church. Never a missionary in the church that I remember. Never heard the gospel there, when a teen went to an Easter film and wondered what Christ did to get Himself dun in.

    Sr. year of high school met a Bible church gal and was introduced to the Bible, salvation and missions in that order and been missions minded all my life since.
     
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    Well, praise the Lord for godly young women!
     
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    My parents taught me to drink and curse, Thank you Jesus for saving and teaching me that evanglism is one of the maost important things I can do. Even if it's not full time, I try to go visit when ever I can and go on short mission trips at least once a year. also we make sandwiches and go and pass them out to the homeless in our area, we try to go once a week, and most important share the gospel.
     
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    That if everybody else jumped off of a bridge it did not mean that I had to do it.
     
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    My parents became Christians when I was a pre-schooler.

    So, they were relatively young in the faith as I was growing up. They stressed personal evangelism--but the missions & global emphasis was later on, as they matured.

    A fun thing we used to do (I was 4th or 5th grade): We got a globe out, spun the globe, and I closed my eyes and put my finger on a spot (being as the oceans, Antarctica, and Greenland aren't really "available," it took several tries sometimes).

    When I hit a valid spot, we would pray that week for the people of that area, and our missions efforts there (if any existed). With the internet today...one could take it a step further and actually find out what is going on with Christianity/evangelism in said locales.

    True story: One evening, I put my finger on (at the time) Czechoslovakia. I prayed for the people there, and asked God to send someone to minister to them. 11 years later--I was among the first Americans to enter a free Czecholsovakia (fall of the Iron Curtain). And 20 years later--I was privileged to go there on a mission trip.

    Funny how God answers prayers, decades down the line.
     
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    Well said! :godisgood:
     
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    Unless there's someone at the bottom to witness to! :smilewinkgrin:
     
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    A blessed testimony. Thanks for sharing! :jesus: