It's time for a revolution.

Today was my first Cultural Anthropology class. Our professor was attending his mother's funeral, so we had a guest speaker, a missionary from Odessa. (His name escapes me and is irrelevant.)
Of course, he was advocating cross-cultural missions, but did so at the expense of mission work done here in America.
He pointed to the overwhelming numbers of churches here and the lack of any churches there. However, he failed to mention how many churches here are dying out. He mention that most church growth is because people are changing churches and not because they're converting. But, he didn't find it alarming that people here in the States aren't being converted.
I was born to be a missionary in Papua New Guinea. Not everyone can do this, but I can; therefore, I must.
However, even though I intend to leave, I know how important it is for us to have missionaries here! It's so important, in fact, and so obvious, that Africa has started sending missionaries to the States!
If the world is going to Hell, as this missionary says, America is leading the way!
It's time for a revolution!
Not to give up and flee the country to those who are "more willing to hear the Word!"
It's time for a revolution!

my holy discontent

First Day of Classes

Yesterday, I had my first class. Ministry Formation. But it was only the class I had scheduled for after 5. So, today was my first full day of classes.
Biblical Doctrines seems as if it'll be fairly easy, as does Science and the Bible.
Greek IV will require the most from me. I'll be translating the book of Hebrews into English from Greek. It promises to be very difficult. But I look forward to the challenge!
Thus far, the workload is not as intimidating as I thought, but I do have two classes that I haven't taken yet. Those classes, I will take tomorrow.

A tid-bit I learned today
In Greek today, I learned that there are only 3 things known for certain about "St. Pauls Epistle to the Hebrews."

1. It's not written by St. Paul
2. It's not an Epistle
3. It's not written to the Hebrews

Everything else about the book is very uncertain!