If you view the world like Joseph's church, you could miss the real opportunity God has for you to minister. Here I come, ready or not. The world you face looks very different than the one your parents and I wandered into 30 years ago. Most people will be urban dwellers. In the U.S. alone we've gone from 40 to 50 percent rural to under 10 percent rural in this century.
National borders are more like bridges than barriers.
With the opening of China and the fall of the iron curtain, few places are off limits. Almost every significant corporation will be multi-national in scope. My own AES works in over 35 countries and the business will change from 95 percent U.S. just six years ago to 70 percent non-U.S. by the year 2001. My brother Ray, an urban ministry specialist, is fond of saying that the United States that faced east toward Europe for over 200 years will now face west toward Asia. This will affect your mission.