The Desire of the Nations: Missionaries to the United States

Friday, September 6, 2013

What about missions over here... in the United States? What does it look like?

G. K. Chesterton said that every revolution is a

restoration—the recapturing and re-introduction of something that

once guided and inspired people in the past. The word revolution is

from the Latin word re-volvere—to re-roll or re-turn. A revolution

is that thing which going around, comes around—again. In a

similar vein, C.S. Lewis says that when we have lost our way, the

quickest way forward is usually to go home. So we are returning,

we are revolving. To put it strongly, we are revolting, and we are

doing it by going home.