Self Audit!

The first thing that struck me while I reviewed my work was that I tend to write more about the things that I find to be outrageous. I really feel as though my personality comes across in these blog posts because when I speak of something that I am passionate about, I tend to elaborate more on what I want to say. It is not as concise as other blogs, where I frankly just needed something to write about. But something else that I noticed was I’m able to take interest in things that I just started to write about because I needed a topic. I tend to latch on to a key point and talk about that.

I’ve noticed that my opinion of missions has changed dramatically. In the church, all we hear about it good things in missions, never any of the struggles or the history of the area. I’ve found that the history of the people in a particular mission field should be stressed and understood. I think we’re better at doing that now, but earlier in the blogs I saw a lot of things that didn’t have a background story or a solution to a problem. I don’t know why this is, because it would have led to interesting discussion and thought. For example, in my very first post entitled “Working in India”, there was a story about a man who had two wives and  he needed to know how to eliminate the marriage between one of them, as she had remained Muslim and the man had converted to Christianity, along with his other wife. No answer to the man’s inquiry was ever given in the article, and that bothered me because there was no summing up of the story in that way.

The most valuable thing in the work of the Nazarene missionaries I’m reading about is probably their passion. For the most part, it appears that those doing work outside their normal home area are very passionate about the people they are working with. They tend to be very positive in their reports of mission work, and give high numbers of converts. It makes me wonder if these people ever want to leave the assigned area that they live in.

All in all, I have to say that I could use some improvement in certain areas, like staying more consistent in length from post to post. I have pretty good language use and I think it’s clear that I understand what I am writing about. And I still like the project.

Reference:

http://nazarenemissionshistory.blogspot.com/2013/01/working-in-india.html