{"id":425,"date":"2013-08-24T14:56:17","date_gmt":"2013-08-24T20:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/?p=425"},"modified":"2013-10-24T09:30:29","modified_gmt":"2013-10-24T15:30:29","slug":"preparation-for-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/2013\/08\/24\/preparation-for-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Preparation for Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I was reading this morning God really struck me at the core. David couldn&#8217;t accept Saul&#8217;s armor &#8220;because he had not tested them&#8221; (1 Samuel 17:39). Moses didn&#8217;t begin to lead Israel until he spent 20 years in Pharaoh&#8217;s house and another 20 in Midian. And Paul spent many years in Arabia before he became the super church planter dude who wrote worked as &#8220;a wise master-builder.&#8221;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>So, I&#8217;ve been thinking about this a lot. Why do so many of us who get excited about missions immediately jump on a plane with little to no training? I applaud the obedience and the sense of urgency, but I am so thankful for the wise counsel Jill and I received 5 years ago&#8211;&#8220;I don&#8217;t care who (what mission agency) you go with, just get solid training before you go!&#8221; I really believe God values <em>initial<\/em> preparation for service.<\/p>\n<p>A quote: &#8220;It is better to lose time as to work in preparation for service than to lose time in repairing one&#8217;s mistakes in undertaking a work for which one is not yet qualified.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I was reading this morning God really struck me at the core. David couldn&#8217;t accept Saul&#8217;s armor &#8220;because he had not tested them&#8221; (1 Samuel 17:39). Moses didn&#8217;t begin to lead Israel until he spent 20 years in Pharaoh&#8217;s house and another 20 in Midian. And Paul spent many years in Arabia before he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":956,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21935],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-425","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-gettin-preachy","7":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/956"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/425\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/bj-sanders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}