10 september 2011

Pioneer ..... right here and over there

I am now reading a book on Pioneer work. It gives a good insight and challange into what it is like to be a pioneer. The verb PIONEER means:
1. open up an area or prepare a way
2. take the lead or initiative in; participate in the development of

A challenge for us who has received the calling to be pioneers is that it doesn’t end when the work becomes a few years old. No. God's pioneer work provides simultaneously:

a) a stable and functioning local work, right here ....in the old place.
b) And it`s open up doors for new work, over there ..... in new places.

The call to pioneer work in not just once in life, as a young person. No, it concerns us all. I have experienced that pioneering work is tough, but ... it has a very special and fresh blessing. And we need that blessing – the whole life. Ingvar