American Missionary Fellowship

Recently, I’ve had a number of discussions with people who are very passionate about certain things. They’re passionate about whether we should have women on the board, about whom we should include in our national staff meeting, about what direction AMF should take in the future, and even about things as trivial as what airline to use or how we can best save resources as we cut expenses.

The common theme through all these discussions is passion. People are passionate about things, and when they are passionate about things they have strong opinions, and those strong opinions are valuable because they are driven by a person’s passion – not bias, but a passion from their hearts about what they believe God has called us to do.

I am so glad our mission is filled with people with passion. E.V. Hill used to say, “You can’t make a racehorse out of a mule,” and people with passion are racehorses. They’re driven. They have strong convictions, and they desire that AMF represent what they feel God has called them to do.

My job is to harness that passion – not to be an obstacle, and not to be a person who confronts them because of their questioning. Contrary to that, my job is to stir up more questions, to allow people to express their passions so that we’re able to see what God will do with this great mission called American Missionary Fellowship.