I've received quite a few messages and emails from many people: from friends, from acquaintances, from NTM missionaries, and from people who rebuke me -- and one common thread is that they all say they don't want to write on this forum because "it's not Christ-like," "where is the Holy Spirit in it? I can't find a single verse on it", "I don't want to add fodder," "Are they believers, those who post?", "I'm a NTM missionary - they'll throw me under the bus," and "they're only bitter on there - I don't want to be attacked."
Um....okay. So it's not a perfect, fuzzy, daisies-and-butterflies forum. This is a forum on abuse.
You'll find fallible (that's me), hurting, angry, depressed, hopeless people posting here.
You'll also find hopeful, encouraging, righteous, and, yes, even God-loving people posting here.
Anyway, so what if it's what you say? You're missionaries or missionary kids or connected to missions --- think of this as your mission field. It's your place to bring your Christ-like, Holy-Spirit-led, believing, kind self. Or.....better yet, bring your growing, learning, fallible, hopeful, listening, and perhaps sometimes questioning self.
Seriously. I really wish you would post the messages, emails, and texts you're sending me. They would be helpful to so many others. Look -- almost 6,000 have read this thread alone. You cannot know where God will take your words. You can even be anonymous!
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