Our trips are designed for those traveling with us to have the ultimate missions experience. We do not stay in some hotel far from those we are ministering to, travel in high-end vehicles to get to them, or eat in restaurants so we can have “better” food. Rather, we live, work, eat, and worship with the local people from morning to night. In 1 Corinthians 9:19-23, Paul explains the reason for becoming all things to all people: “For though I am free from all men, I have made myself a servant to all, that I might win the more; and to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might win Jews; to those who are under the law, as under the law, that I might win those who are under the law; to those who are without law, as without law (not being without law toward God, but under law toward Christ), that I might win those who are without law; to the weak I became as weak, that I might win the weak. I have become all things to all men, that I might by all means save some. Now this I do for the gospel’s sake, that I may be partaker of it with you.”
Winning the world for Jesus takes more than just talking about the Great Commission. It takes more than putting a few dollars in the offering on missions Sunday. In fact, it takes more than prayer alone. It requires all of these, but it also takes action. If we are to see people in this world reached with the Gospel of Jesus Christ, we must go. We must become all things to all people so they might be saved.
That is why we go.
