Dear Church Family,
Today we started teaching in the college. It is incredible to meet these pastors and future pastors and hear their stories. I think one piece of this trip will be indelibly impressed upon my mind, the singing. There is such joy in it and praise offered to God. The Zambian hymns are so neat to hear but they sing traditional hymns with the same joy and worship. You can watch as they sing the true appreciation of the words. I need to make sure that my singing is filled with that joy and excitement.
Dad (Pastor Jeff Musgrave) started the day by showing the pastors how all of the pieces of the exchange fit together. A person gets saved through Inquires Bible Study. Then they grow through Learning to Live with God. And then they are taught to serve through Come and See Soul. Where they are trained to repeat the process over and over again. I was struck again by the magnitude of the impact of this approach to Soul Winning and Discipleship. We are multiplying our efforts instead of simple addition.
I got to be Dad’s guinea pig for the soul winning presentation. Dad led me through as if I was a lost man and I got saved so that the pastors could see how the presentation works. It was fun to work with my Dad doing this and also watch the lights come on in some of the pastor’s heads as they saw the simplicity of the gospel message.
Lunch today was incredible. It was my first insight to a real African meal. We had a sausage with a cabbage salad and some very good sauce drizzled over everything. The sausage had a very brothy taste with a hint of curry and a few other spices that I couldn’t identify. On the side they had a rice like substance. I’m sorry I can’t remember the name of it. Imagine a grits like texture but more like sticky rice consistency. This served as the vehicle for all of the other food. The best part of the whole meal was that I got to eat it with my hands. No silverware was tarnished in the process (Don’t tell my Karis, or Tali this we are working very hard to get them to eat with silverware, but it was fun to regress to my childlike eating).
We ended the teaching day by going through the first lesson of Learning to Live with God (The study that the Homebuilders class is going through right now). Again I was impressed with the importance of teaching new believers the importance of service to God in their newfound relationship. If the Christian life is going to work the way God wants it to we must be serving.
In just a few minutes I will be heading out to dinner at one of the missionaries houses. After that I am going to get together with all the missionary men and watch the Saints beat the Colts in the Superbowl. Then sometime I hope that I will find my way back to my bed. The jet lag has been horrible for me this time. I have been waking up at 3 every morning with the awful feeling that I slept through my alarm. After that I really can’t fall asleep again but I dutifully lay in my bed until it’s time to wake up. I figure that horizontal is better for my rest than vertical. I think it might just be the fact that I am getting older and my body doesn’t handle these changes as well as it used to.
Pastor Josh
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