Learning and inspiration

This Spring I am auditing the Perspectives course again. As an alumni, I can indefinitely attend to hear the lectures from a plethora of missionaries and ministers. It was in Perspectives in 2005 and 2006 that I received inspiration and direction from God about serving as a nurse in Africa. This year I return to glean wisdom and fresh inspiration from the speakers and attendees.

If you have the opportunity to take the course, you won't regret it, and you will never be the same. http://www.perspectives.org/

One of the key points from tonight's lecture is that we are blessed to be a blessing. We have been given the privilege of having the gospel and it is our honor and responsibility to share it. God's plan of redemption is repeated in hundreds of ways through the old and new testament. One thing I learned for the first time that is very significant in God's redemptive work is that 2/3 of Jesus healing ministry involved people the Jewish people called Gentiles. His work was very countercultural.

Psalm 67 "May God be gracious to us and bless us and make His face to shine upon us-- that Your way may be know on earth, Your saving power among all nations. Let the peoples praise You, O God; let all the peoples praise you: Let the nations be glad and sing for joy, for you judge the peoples with equity and guide the nations upon earth. Let the peoples praise you, O God; let all the people praise You! The earth has yielded its increases; God, our God, shall bless us. God shall bless us; let all the ends of the earth fear Him!"