Have you ever felt a tension between the mobilization folks and the member care folks? Jonathan Trotter, an overseas worker and writer for A Life Overseas, examines this tension and seeks to balance the two. What do you think? Are both necessary? How have you seen these two balanced (or not) in churches or mission organizations? Please jot a note in the comments following the web version of this item. Thanks.
Read the article here:
http://www.alifeoverseas.com/its-not-all-about-war-balancing-our-kingdom-rhetoric/
Good article. The scriptures use many word pictures to guide us. They are complementary not contradictory. Such is the case of the strategic military pictures of warfare and the caring shepherd pictures.
As one who spent many years in mobilization,seeing hundreds enter into missions, I now concentrate on developing member care.
Mobilization efforts have difficulty keeping up with the attrition rates let alone substantially increasing kingdom workers.
Years of visiting hundreds of missionaries on location and listening to their struggles to maintain the battle deeply confirmed the necessity of an integrated and broad based member care perspective at every level.
Mobilization without member care is like an army without adequate supply line or mash units.