Awkward Situations ...短宣有感-不自在的情況

For an engineer who works with computers all day and seeks out lonely trails
during my free time, joining in to a mission trip working with kids is certainly
awkward. This situation has proven an opportunity for the organizers as
I was hung in yesterday's skit and crucified in today's skit. No worry,
it is all for a good cause! Being an American hanging out in Taiwan means
that there really is no way to avoid the awkward, so we might as well embrace
it.

One thing that has surprised me is the degree that these children already
know the gospel message. The pastors and helpers are very sincere and systematic
in their teaching in a way that reminds me of earlier generations of American
churches. Could it be that they will be that the Taiwanese children will
be better educated in Christianity than Americans? Mission trips are always
a two-way learning thing as those who go are usually as changed from the
event as those that the missionary sees.

I have been too busy to keep up on the blogosphere activity, but a never
ending debate has reappeared over "Who's Qualified" to teach the Bible.
It does seem to me that the heavy lifting in Christian teaching is being
done by those who aren't sufficiently sophisticated or pretentious to be
participants in this debate.