Assumptions!

I have to disagree with “We cannot truly serve those we do not know and love”, because I think as serving like not for people, but the souls of the people. The main goal of serving for God’s kingdom it’s to win more souls to Jesus, and for the souls that are already of Jesus, the goal will be like to mold them making their faith stronger. Of course I think it we need to know and love for serving, but I don’t think we can’t truly serve if we don’t have those. The principles of serving are surrounded by love, so we can perfectly serve to people we don’t know, and sometimes it’s easier, because we won’t fear total rejection and confronting them again. WE are disciples of Jesus, and we are called to do as the Bible describes the mission of the apostles: “Go and preach, ‘The Kingdom of Heaven is near!’ Heal the sick, bring the dead back to life, heal those who suffer from dreaded skin diseases, and drive out demons. You have received without paying, so give without being paid.” “And if some home or town will not welcome you or listen to you, then leave that place and shake the dust off your feet.” (Matthew 10: 7-8, 14). God gave us a way to serve with our gifts, and we didn’t have to pay for them, so we can truly serve always even if we don’t know people, because of what God gave us, LET’S DO THIS!
Assumption 2: BIG TRUTH. I’ll replace the word ‘neighborhood’ for ‘house’. We must be a team of our word through our actions, not just listeners but practicing the Word in our lives.
Assumption 7: I could learn in past experiences that we can learn even more that we can imagine by giving just a little, I can’t figure out right now what we could learn, by giving so much more. One of the reasons that I’m excited for going into this mission’s trip: As we serve, GOD WILL TEACH US A LOT ABOUT OURSELVES, OUR FAITH, ABOUT HIS CHURCH, and ABOUT LIFE.
Assumption 16: There’s a fact: we need to learn more and more through life about the Bible. Is not an exception to learn more for missions and this assumption develops a big truth that I learned reading a book called: “Hermeneutica Biblica” which means “Biblical Hermeneutics” that develops the way how we can study the Bible, the meaning and context of some words and also show the readers that we can’t be anachronistic studying It. Learning the cultural context of the biblical times, will teach us more not only about that culture, but what we can learn right now in the present, understanding better that past cultural context. =)