Questioning the Pearls – Are We Being Selfish? How Do We Minister to Others?

Questioning the Pearls – Are We Being Selfish? How Do We Minister to Others? April 13, 2017

QuestioningthePearlsLawd have mercy! Debi Pearl has a new book on being a help meet coming out shortly~ Anyone feel like doing a review? – The Hidden Help Meet

For well over a year we’ve been running a second Answering β€˜Preparing To Be A Help Meet’ on Sundays, filled with questions by young ladies trying to get ready for marriage. Since we’ve run through many of the questions on their site it’s time to shift Sundays to something else, like perhaps examining the cornucopia of probably fake emails and questions that Michael and Debi Pearl of No Greater Joy post on their website and the possibly poisonous answers they give.

Question and answer may be found here.

First, the question:

HOW DO WE BECOME A MINISTERING FAMILY when we live out in the woods, stay busy at home trying to live off the land and still pay bills, and rarely encounter unsaved people?

My husband and I are questioning if this is possible.

We REALLY enjoy living exactly the kind of life your article describesβ€”goats, chickens, honeybees, blueberry plants, gardens . . . my husband is a Mr. Visionary.

But at the same time that we love it, we also feel less useful somehow because we are not a part of society anymore. We are a good thirty minutes from town, and it’s difficult to invite unsaved potential friends over to build relationships because of the drive time for them, or for us to find time to go to their home.

We fear we are becoming self-centered. My husband did missions for a few years, and I have taught girls in Sunday school. We’ve always been active in reaching out. But as we pursue this quieter life, all of that seems so hard to do now. We have no children yet but hope to become foster parents this year.

We often ask ourselves if we need to move into the city because that is where the PEOPLE are. We’re afraid to choose this life if it might be a cop-out.

So all that to say HOW DO YOU DO THIS?

Michael Pearl’s reply:

You are living a life of self-interestβ€”not necessarily the same thing as selfish. We, too, moved into the deep country, away from a ministry, when our oldest child was 13 years old. We did so mainly for the sake of the children. We bought 100 acres in the least populated county in Tennessee, and the poorest. Though we were isolated, one day two men found their way down our quarter-mile-long driveway. I spoke of Christ and they wanted to hear more, so I traveled to their home to teach a Bible study. In time others joined in and we had a church, and then a mission outreach, etc.

So, what do you think of the advice giving Michael? Is this even a valid concern of the family? At least he didn’t order them to leaflet every public restroom they encounter with tracts. I encountered that this week, a week when the pressure on the public by Christians ramps up horribly – Easter week. I found 47 tracts stuck in various places in a Lowe’s restroom. Removed each one.

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