How Are Missionaries Like Lizards? Part A

How Are Missionaries Like Lizards?


We have begun planning for home ministries and one of the things you need to do is to come up with a program for children. Since we have a lot of lizards and geckos here, both inside and outside the house we thought that would make a good starting point. We like the ones inside since they eat the other bugs we would rather not have inside. The ones on this page are two of the ones we found in our yard.

Lizards only show up twice in the Bible. Once when they are declared unclean to eat and will make things unclean when they die in Leviticus 11 and again in Proverbs 30 where they are compared with ants, coneys and locusts as things that are small but wise. So what does it say? Vesrse 28 says a lizard can be caught with the hand, yet it is found in kings' palaces.

So what did my children say when asked how missionaries are like lizards?

Has teeth (spoken by one who has been bitten, yes, even geckos have teeth!)
Goes around all over the place
Can be green ( ?)
They try to stay away from cats, dogs and other dangerous animals
They have good stories about escaping
Can climb trees ( from my tree climber)
They eat bugs
Can be captured and eaten by cannibals (historically speaking)
Swim in rivers
Kill mosquitoes (but the missionaries don't eat them!)
They speak foreign languages (well lizards do speak lizard tongue)
Missionaries catch lizards, lizards catch bugs
They live in forests and cities
Occasionally geckos change screens, missionaries change continents. ( geckos seem to prefer the same window screen night after night)
Lizards shed their skin, missionaries changetheir clothes : ) hopefully more often than lizards shed their skin!)
And Lizards go find bugs, Missionaries go find people (but frogs just wait for flies to come to them!)

If you have any thoughts as to how missionaries are like lizards, write me.

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