An interesting word that the
English language has adopted is “triage”.
In a crisis where there are a
number of wounded and dying, medical professionals will employ triage,
Triage decides each patient’s
priority and order of treatment.
The goal is to maximize the number
of survivors.
Even the best doctors and nurses can
be limited by location, medicine, supplies and so on.
In extreme situations, such
as wounds inflicted on the battlefield, a number of wounded may be deemed too
far gone to help.
They are eliminated from the
process in order to give someone else a better chance at life.
Sometimes we as Christians
perform our own sort of triage when it comes to telling others about Jesus.
We might make the mistake of
assuming someone is too far gone to help.
Without realizing it, we might
be putting the emphasis on our individual limitations.
We sometimes forget that
Jesus has no limitations.
I recall one man who got it right when it came to mission
work.
His name was Count Nikolaus von Zinzendorf.
In 1731, Zinzendorf met a converted slave.
This man desperately wanted someone to go to his homeland in
the West Indies.
He wanted someone to preach the gospel to his brothers and
sisters.
Zinzendorf raced to his home in Moravia and quickly found two
volunteers for this assignment.
Zinzendorf’s community was not large numbering perhaps 600.
Yet his desire for mission work proved contagious.
In less than 20 years’ time, some 70 missionaries from this
Moravian community were involved in missions around the world.
They found themselves in places like Greenland, Lapland,
Georgia, Surinam, Africa's Guinea Coast, South Africa, Amsterdam's Jewish
quarter, Algeria, the native North Americans, Ceylon, Romania, and
Constantinople.
They succeeded where others failed.
They told others about Jesus.
Zinzendorf’s concept was a simple one but that is what made
it so successful.
"According to
him: “Missions, after all, is simply
this: Every heart with Christ is a missionary, every heart without Christ is a
mission field."
This simple truth remains unchanged today.
Every man, woman and child who knows Christ is a missionary.
Everyone who does not is a mission field.
Our mission field may be found in another part of the globe.
It can just as easily be found in our own communities.
Triage can sometimes be necessary in the world of medicine.
It is completely unnecessary in the spiritual world.
John 6:37 (NET) - Everyone whom the Father gives me will come to me,
and the one who comes to me I will never send away.
Blessings,
Jim Pokorny
The Other Brother Jim
Look for me at http://faithfulfeetteam.blogspot.com/ on
Friday, October 20, 2017.
I will be back here on Friday, October 27, 2017
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