IBW: Chapter 6 - Loving our Neighbor
It’s easy to say these things about “needing to know a second language” when it comes to mission work yet it is still hard to make that real and tangible. For one, most of you won’t be missionaries actively spreading the gospel in other countries, or even translators for that work. Maybe some of you reading this will follow that path. That would be fantastic. However, that isn’t the route most of you will take. Therefore, it can be difficult to see the practical application if the basis for it were merely for the cause of the mission field. There is, however, a much closer-to-home reason for studying a second language, and it applies to every single one of us. When Jesus summarized the commandments of God in Matthew 22, He said: " Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself (vs. 37-39)." We will return ...