danny’s space

After an encouraging and highly stimulating NTE and mission, and meeting so many people with such varied gifts and such great knowledge of God’s word and such passion to serve, I’ve been challenged to further develop my own knowledge and understanding. I seem to always do things in hindsight, like installing an alarm system after your house is broken in to.

I want to learn gospel Mandarin. At least some basic words which I can use to explain the gospel and to challenge people to investigate Christianity. That would have been useful in Ashfield.

I want to read more. Talking with Catholics through the mission, I don’t think I have a solid enough foundation to meet them where they’re at and to discuss things with them with appropriate historical and biblical arguments to support the Evangelical view. Katay suggested a book called ‘Evangelicals and Catholics’ which I want to go and buy.

I want to find out about other religions. Ashfield was a greatly multicultural and spiritually diverse place, and being able to understand other religions will definitely help me in talking to others about their faith and my faith.

I want to know the Bible better and be able to pull verses out of my head on the spot. My strand group leader raised the interesting idea of reading 5 chapters a day to get through the whole Bible in one year, and repeating this for 5 years - apparently your wholistic understanding and ability to apply the Bible can be significanty improved. I aim to at least try to do this, maybe starting with the New Testament.

Of course, I can’t do this by myself. I’ll be relying on God’s power to help me through. And of course, ultimately when it comes to evangelism, it is God who gives the growth (1 Cor 3:7). I want to spend time learning so that I can be better equipped to serve his purposes for me.

For his glory.