One of my favorite readings is a passage from the great Quaker writer, John Woolman, who lived and wrote in the 1700's. John Woolman went on some incredible journeys. Once, during the French and Indian War, John Woolman felt led to go and visit a group of Indians he had heard about, out by the frontier. And as he went along, he asked himself why it was he was going. That is such a simple understanding of what missions are all about.
Love is the first motion.
Love is the impetus, the thing which gets it started. And after that, simply a desire to spend some time with the Indians, to see how they lived, and to understand where they're coming from. I'm always impressed, by how humble John Woolman is in this passage. Or maybe, they might be helped, in their struggle forward, by seeing how I try to follow where God's truth leads me. That is an incredibly humble attitude.