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Training Illustrated Missionary training is like a course on skydiving. It is against the nature of our minds and bodies to hurdle them out of a plane at 10,000 feet. There is something similarly unnatural to leaving family, friends, homes and accompanied security to go to a strange and sometimes hostile place where the only rewards may be eternal. In sky diving there are two methods of training. The first is more attuned to civilian recreational skydiving. After some class instruction, a jumper begins to feel paralyzing fear as the plane ascends for the jump. The instructor then offers encouraging words, “You can do this I’ve done it many times before. We’ll be tethered together in case something fails.” With added reassurances the jump is made. The second is more attuned to military skydiving. If a trainee fears and freezes, physical-force, such as the officer’s boot may be employed. In the history of the church, the Lord ceaselessly calls and encourages the church to evangelize the lost. Few respond in good times. In times of physical distress, such as the Diaspora, many respond, go and the church spreads. This training relies on both procedures as we see that there needs to be encouragement, instruction and pressures. An inward compulsion of the Holy Spirit will help propel a person called to missions work.

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