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The Vision, pp. 197-203<\/strong><\/p>\n

Malachi Freeman has asked a whole bunch of missionaries to come to his Tennessee compound so that he can sell them on his graphic novel Bible. I\u2019m not sure how he chose which missionaries to invite, or how he got in contact with them. I\u2019m curious why he didn\u2019t just find out when missionary conferences were happening (I think this is a thing?) and go then\u2014or why he didn\u2019t contact missionary ending agencies to sell them<\/em> on it (which seems more efficient).<\/p>\n

This is my biggest critique of this section: this is the wrong audience to approach.<\/p>\n

Last week, Asher and Cheyenne (and no one else) were walking around feeling the after-effects of Cheyenne\u2019s near death experience. The context was this meeting: they were setting up and waiting for it to begin.<\/p>\n

So Much for Planning<\/strong><\/p>\n

As this section begins, Asher worries they\u2019ve been stood up, because people haven\u2019t arrived yet. Does this meeting not involve RSVPing, or arranging for where to sleep? This is weird<\/em>. Debi tells us that while missionaries are coming from every part of the world, some have sent their wives or pastors because they can\u2019t leave the field. This meeting is bizarre. At the last minute, a long line of cars shows up at the gate.<\/p>\n

Where did the cars come from? The local car rental? Where is the nearest airport? Why did everyone arrive at the same time?\u00a0<\/em>The logistics of this make no sense.<\/p>\n

The Tech Miracle<\/strong><\/p>\n

Asher begins his powerpoint presentation on the fancy LCD screen gifted to the ministry by a businessman. He shows the missionaries a map of the world that is somehow color coded for how people people have heard the gospel AND what language groups the Bible has been translated into. Its data is so detailed that specific areas where missionaries are working are lit up to show that more people have heard the gospel in those towns.<\/p>\n

No. No to any of this. Making maps and color-coded illustrations is actually really really difficult, especially when you\u2019re trying to code in actual data. Speaking of which, exactly what data\u00a0are\u00a0<\/em>they actually using?<\/em><\/p>\n

Debi constantly elevates new technology almost to the point of magic. We see this with the herbal brew as well\u2014even in the decision to use factories in China to mass produce the brew. Most of all, we see it in the idea that a graphic novel Bible combined with the internet will convert the world. It\u2019s true that new technology is important. But a liquid crystal display screen with a snazzy powerpoint isn\u2019t going to magically convince veteran missionaries that they\u2019ve been wrong their whole lives any more than a graphic novel Bible will make people instantaneously convert.<\/p>\n

\u201cPUBLISH\u201d the Gospel to All Men<\/strong><\/p>\n

So, let\u2019s turn to the meeting:<\/p>\n

\u201cGod says in Matthew chapter 13, when asked concerning the end times:\u00a0\u2018And the gospel must first be PUBLISHED among all nations\u2019.\u00a0<\/em>We may be among the last publishers before Jesus\u2019 return. The job that has not yet been done is no ours to do.<\/p>\n

\u201cGod commanded us to\u00a0\u2018go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature\u2019.\u00a0<\/em>Yet for two thousand years people have lived and died without ever having a chance to hear.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is clear that the world will never be reached by our present methods.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Insulting much?<\/p>\n

They\u2019ve invited a bunch of missionaries to come here so that they can\u00a0tell them that what\u00a0they\u2019re doing won\u2019t work.\u00a0<\/i>Okay. Cool. Also, there is no collaboration here. This isn\u2019t a conference where they\u2019re learning from each other. Nope! They called all the missionaries here\u00a0to be schooled!\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Also! I grew up hearing that the gospel must be \u201cpreached\u201d among all nations, not \u201cpublished\u201d among all nations\u2014so what gives? I\u2019ve looked it up, and the King James Version does\u00a0<\/em>say\u00a0\u201cAnd the gospel must first be published among all nations.\u201d However, the New American Standard, which I was taught to see as the golden standard, says: \u201cThe gospel must first be preached<\/em> to all the nations.\u201d Other translations say \u201cproclaimed.\u201d In fact, it looks like the King James is the odd one out in using the word \u201cpublished.\u201d\u00a0\u03ba\u03b7\u03c1\u03c5\u03c7\u03b8\u1fc6\u03bd\u03b1\u03b9 appears too mean preach or proclaim.<\/p>\n

This got me curious, so I found a dictionary from 1708<\/a> and looked up the word \u201cpublish\u201d (some days I really<\/em> love the internet). The dictionary gave this definition: \u201cto make public, to spread abroad.\u201d That was the only definition offered. If that\u2019s what \u201cpublish\u201d meant when the King James translation was written, I can see why the translator used that word! It is not, however, what \u201cpublish\u201d means today,<\/em> and\u00a0this is why you have to look at the Greek.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Seriously, people.<\/p>\n

These Can\u2019t Be\u00a0Real<\/em> Christians<\/b><\/p>\n

Asher tells the gathered missionaries that Timothy Vick\u2019s health has had a rebound, and we learn that they are \u201cincredulous\u201d and surprised at this news. Remember, Vick is the missionary in Thailand that Debi sent her miracle brew to. They all know who Vick is, which is somehow the least odd thing here. What\u2019s strangest is that none of them appear to know<\/em>\u00a0the standard Bible meeting way to respond to an announcement that an infirm person\u2019s health is improving, which is not with incredulity<\/em> but by saying \u201cPraise the Lord!\u201d and \u201cGod is good!\u201d<\/p>\n

Given that they all know Vick, the simplest explanation for this section seems to be that Malachi belongs to a specific fundamentalist denomination that has its own missionary sending board, and that these are the missionaries he invited. If so, though, I don\u2019t see him being allowed to do this without getting the denomination\u2019s approval.<\/p>\n

I feel like I\u2019m putting more work into this making sense than Debi did.<\/p>\n

Making Missions Work Obsolete<\/strong><\/p>\n

Anyway, Asher next addresses the missionaries with:<\/p>\n

\u201cYou are all well acquainted with the 247 page, illustrated\u00a0God\u2019s Story\u00a0<\/em>book that Malachi wrote a couple years ago.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

If they\u2019re acquainted with it already, why the need to have them all physically come to Tennessee?<\/p>\n

Anyway, here\u2019s Asher\u2019s pitch:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Last Publishers ministry has received thousands of amazing testimonies from all over the world in regards to the\u00a0God\u2019s Story\u00a0<\/em>book. It is effective for two reasons. First, it\u2019s readily received and read without the prejudice that Christian literature sometimes generates. It goes where Bibles and even missionaries are not allowed. Secondly, it teaches as God chose to teach: through stories of God\u2019s working among men. God\u2019s history, if you will.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis has been the most successful preaching method of all time. This chronologically told Bible story book is a missionary that will not grow weary and quit, will not be distracted with sick kids, will not pause to eat, will never get malaria or dengue fever, does not have to pay rent, can live in a village undetected, can go to a country closed to the gospel, is willing to work day and night, and gives a clear nad accurate message again and again for years to come. If a hostile government destroys the book, it can be replaced for three dollars or less.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I feel like if I were a missionary, I\u2019d find this insulting. You\u2019re telling me I spent my whole life<\/em> working to convert people and spread the gospel, and the whole time, my job could\u2019ve been done better by a graphic novel Bible?!<\/p>\n

This is why,\u00a0again,\u00a0<\/em>this is the wrong audience. They should have invited missionary sending agencies, to urge them to switch focus, or better yet, wealthy evangelical businessmen, to convince them to fund this idea. Instead they\u2019ve invited missionaries, so that they can tell them that their whole approach is wrong and that they should discontinue their current work to become printers and book distributors. Right.<\/p>\n

Relationships Matter, People!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Our beliefs are formed within the web of our relationships, experiences, and current life trajectory. This is one reason missionary work, when done effectively, is about forming\u00a0relationships.\u00a0Malachi is wrong.<\/em>\u00a0Handing someone a book is very very rarely<\/em> going to change their beliefs by itself. People\u2019s relationships and life contexts are incredibly important to their choice and formation of beliefs\u2014perhaps more so than anything else.<\/p>\n

Do people sometimes change their beliefs? Absolutely! But people who completely change their entire belief system (for example, converting to a different religion) typically do so when they\u2019re at specific points in their lives: leaving home for college, dating someone new, going through a divorce, moving to a new part of the country. Outside of these breaks in one\u2019s life, people are rarely willing to upend their lives by converting to a new religion and belief system.<\/p>\n

At moments when books\u00a0have\u00a0<\/em>played an important role in historical change\u2014say, by challenging existing ideology and opening minds to new ideas\u2014they\u2019ve done so within a greater context of friends, family, and community members. Think young activists in an authoritarian nation, reading illicitly printed books, for instance. Even Radio Free Europe during the Cold War\u2014yes, we fed subversive information into these countries, but I suspect that those influenced by this content were likely those most likely to have social contexts that made space for them to do so.<\/p>\n

And those individuals were\u00a0were\u00a0<\/em>influenced by this knowledge quickly formed networks, or looked for others who were like-minded. People are social animals. Ideas don\u2019t spread outside of a social context.<\/p>\n

If Asher\u2019s description was how things work\u2014if people are more likely to convert after reading a graphic novel Bible than after forming a relationship with someone who is a Christian\u2014then Jack Chick had the right of it, and the United States could be converted if Christians just lit dropped Chick tracts over every park and public place.<\/p>\n

It doesn\u2019t work this way!\u00a0This is\u00a0magical thinking!<\/p>\n

Also? This feels like a really lazy<\/em> way to convert people.<\/p>\n

The Geeks<\/strong><\/p>\n

No really, that\u2019s what this section is called: The Geeks.<\/p>\n

Not to be confused with: The Greeks.<\/p>\n

But I digress.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s still Asher speaking:<\/p>\n

\u201cFellow ministers, may I present the men who will get the gospel to the whole world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Now a group of very young men stood up to be introduced to the older, wiser ministers of the gospel. These were not sophisticated or fashion conscious individuals. None looked rugged or brave. They looked bookish, nerdy, definitely not frontier missionary material. After an awkward silence, the geeks sat down.<\/p>\n

There was a shift of movement among the audience, not a positive one. Murmurs of dissatisfaction could be heard. Had they traveled all this way for a waste of time? Where was Malachi? Why had such weighty matters been entrusted to untried youth?<\/p>\n

Asher stood his ground. He looked at the men with the sobriety of a prophet of old. \u201cFor the younger generation the internet is a constant source of information.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What message is Debi trying to send here? This is one thing that makes this book confusing. She\u2019s\u00a0maybe\u00a0<\/em>trying to critique middle aged and older individuals dismissal of youth? I am so confused right now!<\/p>\n

Also! WTF is with the \u201cdefinitely not frontier missionary material\u201d comment?! Amy Carmichael<\/em> was told this too, and she\u2014wait, do non-evangelicals know who Amy Carmichael is? And Mary Slessor\u2014but I\u2019m guessing many of my readers probably don\u2019t know her either. My point is this: I grew up reading missionary novels, and they\u00a0all\u00a0<\/em>started with the main character being told they weren\u2019t cut out for the mission field. Debi ought to know this!<\/p>\n

Not frontier missionary material,\u00a0my foot.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

The Internet Is Magic<\/strong><\/p>\n

Back to Asher:<\/p>\n

\u201cAh, you say \u2026 not many people have a computer in the country I work in, and even if they did, who knows how to use the web or find a site?\u201d<\/p>\n

It was the young geeks\u2019 turn to laugh. \u201cYou, my dear old missionaries and ministers, are behind the times.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I have found Debi\u2019s secret talent: insulting literally everyone.<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cThe youth of the world all know how to access computers and can use them before they are able to read.\u201d<\/p>\n

Cheyenne moved over by the door nad peered out where she stood, thinking to herself,\u00a0It\u2019s not working, Asher. These old guys are yelling no inside \u2026 I can year their cries.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

Asher wasn\u2019t finished. \u201cTo prove my point I will demonstrate. Cut the overhead lights, Shy.\u201d Cheyenne\u2019s heart leaped.\u00a0He used my pet name in public!\u00a0<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Oh\u00a0lord.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

The long and short of it is this: Asher makes the map light up, with one light for every hundred people who have either spent at least one hour on a\u00a0God\u2019s Word\u00a0<\/em>website, or downloaded the whole book from one of the websites.<\/p>\n

The map began to light up. Color by color started to fill certain sections of the map.<\/p>\n

\u201cJesus said that eh is the light of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

There was an audible response.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Asher says they had \u201cas many as a hundred thousand hits in some of these areas where colleges are located.\u201d Which. Fine. But I don\u2019t see it? When I was in college, the website I spent most time on was Homestar Runner.<\/p>\n

Anyway, the missionaries are\u00a0wowed.<\/em><\/p>\n

LOL,\u00a0<\/strong>Missionaries Don\u2019t Have Money<\/b><\/p>\n

Asher goes on:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe gospel has a new way to be published and we are going to make it happen. We need wise men to set up prayer chains. We need missionaries to help us find translators that can be trusted to do a good job. We need printers, storage facilities, and people on the ground who and see to the distribution. We need money. We need more young geeks who walk in truth and are willing to be the new missionaries for today. Will you stand in the gap?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Again\u2014this is the wrong group to approach! If they need translators, they could approach sending agencies, or Bible translation groups. If they need people on the ground to distribute books, once again, sending agencies would be the best group to approach\u2014sending agencies have distribution channels to missionaries already set up.<\/p>\n

I really, really don\u2019t understand this meeting.<\/p>\n

All \u2026 Done?<\/strong><\/p>\n

That\u2019s the end, and we don\u2019t get anything else about the missionaries\u2019 responses. They were wowed by the light show, the end. Of this chapter, I mean\u2014not the end of the book.<\/p>\n

Bah. Such a weird book.<\/p>\n

I still don\u2019t see the point of this entire missionary meeting. The whole plan as discussed before was: make lots of websites, fund websites with magic berry brew sales, and bam! The whole world is converted! I can see needing more translators, but I don\u2019t understand why they\u2019re making a pitch for money, or why they\u2019ve called missionaries out of the field just to tell them that the way they\u2019re trying to convert people is crap.<\/p>\n

And I\u2019m\u00a0very\u00a0<\/em>confused about what Debi thinks about \u201cgeeks.\u201d That whole bit just felt \u2026 off. I know she was being all \u201chaha old men don\u2019t know how the internet works,\u201d but her liberal use of the word \u201cgeek\u201d and her ample comments about how\u00a0awkward\u00a0<\/em>these young men seemed like way more than was needed.<\/p>\n

Anyway! We\u2019re now almost 2\/3 of the way through this book! Yay us!<\/p>\n

I have a <\/b>Patreon<\/b><\/a>! Please support my writing!\u00a0<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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