{"id":441,"date":"2021-08-18T09:56:56","date_gmt":"2021-08-18T13:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-hilt\/?p=441"},"modified":"2021-08-18T09:56:58","modified_gmt":"2021-08-18T13:56:58","slug":"we-love-meeting-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-hilt\/2021\/08\/18\/we-love-meeting-people\/","title":{"rendered":"We love meeting people"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

We love meeting people but we\u2019re not so good at remembering names\u2026 <\/strong>especially when Joyce and I awaken in the morning and ask one another, \u201cWho are you?\u201d<\/em>  Well, ok\u2026 it\u2019s not gotten to that point (yet), but with the thousands of people we meet in our ministry travels it\u2019s just difficult recalling names.   There is none so good as our Pastor Tim at Family Bible Church in Arizona when it comes to recalling names.  Upon first meeting he\u2019s got your name and other info embedded in his brain forever.  I really think he\u2019s hiding an Etch-A-Sketch in there somewhere!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s amusing the number of people we meet who voice complaint about being unhappy in their jobs.  They\u2019re gifted and skilled individuals across a broad range of careers and occupations.  I get it\u2026 back when I was in the workaday world I worked at a large air conditioning manufacturer.  –Right, a graphic designer by trade working in the air conditioning field.  It was while working there I came to know Jesus.  (No, Jesus did not work at our corporation.) <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Joyce and I were being discipled we were leading people to Christ and discipling them at the same time as we were being discipled.  That\u2019s the way it\u2019s supposed to work\u2026Each One Reach One\/Each One Teach One.   Amid this journey we became dissatisfied with our jobs because we knew there were people groups waiting to hear the gospel.  Our study of the scriptures led us to conclude it was our duty to reach them.  We had already set the wheels in motion to go to Bible college and then on to missionary training and language science school.  But we couldn\u2019t leave just yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The time leading up to when we could <\/em>pursue equipping was probably one of the hardest waiting times in our lives. I became one of those voicing complaint about being unhappy in my job.  \u201cMy gosh,\u201d<\/em> I exclaimed to Joyce \u201cI\u2019m working for a manufacturer who builds air conditioners and all the while people are going to hell.  What good is an air conditioner going to be to them there?\u201d<\/em>  I was miserable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2026And I\u2019ll bet there are some of you reading this letter right now who could say, \u201cYeah, I\u2019m not happy where I\u2019m at or with what I am doing.\u201d<\/em>  Well, ok then\u2026 I get it.  Like I said, I was there!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m meeting more Christians nowadays who are not happy in their jobs.  The majority have skills that could assist us in our efforts of declaring Christ among the unreached peoples of the world and establishing thriving churches among them.  I actually began praying for God to make such ones, who voice complaint about their jobs, miserable at their jobs.  You probably think I\u2019m crazy.  Yeah, I know.  \u2026But I also know if God wants them, or any believer for that matter, to use their gifts & abilities to impact those with no opportunity to hear of Jesus, then it\u2019s going to be God prompting the heart and motivating such ones to get equipped to go.  \u2026And didn\u2019t Jesus tell us to pray for Harvest laborers?  Yes. He. Did.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So why all this noise about the need for laborers?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

We\u2019ve been on the front line of ministry among unreached people and can tell you the need is great for such ones to hear God\u2019s story and the gospel.  Oh wait\u2026 there are no front line ministries; it\u2019s all behind enemy lines in Satan\u2019s domain.  The only way they will hear God\u2019s story and the gospel is if we do something about it.  Many say they are willing to go — just like I took a crowd of people to a restaurant and told them I was willing to buy them a steak dinner, but didn\u2019t.  You see, our willingness doesn\u2019t amount to a hill of beans until we do something.  Paul said in 2 Corinthians 2:14-15 if we are convinced that Christ died for all then we\u2019re gonna\u2019 do something.                                                                     <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It might be telling a lost family member about Jesus.  It might be telling a lost friend, neighbor or a lost coworker about Jesus.  \u2026And it might be going to an unengaged people group far beyond our homeland to tell them about Jesus.  If we don\u2019t reach the lost, who will?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is why we make so much noise about the work and this is why we ask you to pray for laborers. <\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We love meeting people but we\u2019re not so good at remembering names\u2026 especially when Joyce and I awaken in the morning and ask one another, \u201cWho are you?\u201d  Well, ok\u2026 it\u2019s not gotten to that point (yet), but with the thousands of people we meet in our ministry travels it\u2019s just difficult recalling names.   There […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":276,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-441","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-hilt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-hilt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-hilt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-hilt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/276"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-hilt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-hilt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-hilt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-hilt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/david-hilt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}