[gloryseeker]

Originally Posted by notforsale

the perecentage issue can only be described by experience.

I want to ask the question; those who debate this, wondering about it's meaning (0-100%), have you been involved in missions work and its birthing process, enduring this process to completion?

Have you sold, given, and been to the bottom for his cause ever in your life? Home and foreign missionaries understand this in ways that only come by experience. In other words, talk is cheap.

If you haven't been there, you may go in circles with this and never understand others who try to describe this type of commitment. The tears, the finances, the patience, the rejection, the storms of lonliness and despair, the sleepless nights; words aren't enough.

If you want to know my burden here, leave your family, friends, securities, big church, everything, and go to a mission work to labor with a lonely pastor who is on his knees pleading for someone to help him. This will change you in in ways you'll never know until you, "get thee out of thy country".

God bless, nfs

a big amen!