The Amaturisation of Missions
Despite the hard realities and desperate needs of the mission fields, we are increasingly seeing the amaturisation of missions. More and more Christians are pouring into the mission fields – but for very short periods of time and for very superficial goals.
I have been astounded to come across large tour groups (calling themselves “missionaries”) travelling across the world just to spend four or five days “in the field”! The high costs of international air travel would seem to make such short visits cost-ineffective. Even more incredible is how most of these short termers have undergone no selection procedure, received no training and are ill-equipped to benefit the local believers. In most cases these religious tourists have a lower grasp of Scripture and a spiritual maturity that is dwarfed by the local believers to whom they presume to come to minister.
Lesley,
I have been astounded at something related to this myself.
There are some who think they are traveling these to places for Christ, when in truth they are simply trying to convert them to their particular mode of worship,denomination, form of baptism or whatever the case might be. In fact they may be making them twice the child of hell. I think Christ had something to say about this to the scribes and pharisees.
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