How Are Missionaries Like Lizards? Part B

So just how are missionaries like lizards?

1. Lizards are found all over the world and adapt to nearly every climate: Missionaries all around the world are about a global challenge with a local impact for the Kingdom.

2. Lizards have been around for a long time: Missionaries should recognize their heritage since the time of Christ and contribute to the future of their craft.

3. Each kind of lizard was created with its own special characteristics and ways to protect itself and find its prey: Each missionary has their own special gifts from God to be used for the kingdom of God.

4. Lizards are on their own from the moment they hatch: Missionaries should seek to plant churches from the start that are free of dependence on the missionary or his money; they should seek methods of evangelism, discipleship, leadership training and church planting that are reproducible by the locals.

5. Lizards strive to blend into their surroundings: Missionaries should both seek to make sure that they are integrated into the Masters plans and that what they do considers the local culture and is culturally appropriate within biblical standards.

6. Lizards diligently hunt prey: Missionaries are on the hunt to find and do whatever it takes to help initiate ministry and church planting movements, they can't just wait for it to come to them.

7. Lizards quickly regain mobility after basking in the morning sun: Missionaries should draw inspiration and direction daily first from the Lord, basking in his warmth and word to revive and strengthen them.

8. Lizards have to worry about becoming prey: Missionaries must keep aware of the environment within which they work and learn to recognize spiritual dangers. They need to stay close to the cross and seek to avoid sin that could ensnare them.

9. Lizards are vulnerable to attack in the early morning hours: Missionaries must recognizing when they are vulnerable to attack by Satan and his wiles as he tries to attack them and their ministry.

10. Some Lizards drop their tails and grow new ones: Missionaries are not perfect, but will learn from bad experiences in order to stay on the hunt and drop ourselves in order to grow more like Jesus.