The Traveling Team is a group of young people that travel around the United States encouraging people to be involved with missions. And since we have a strong emphasis on missions on this campus, we're going to be happy and mention that as we present these people to you.
Man can be awfully proud. Take the Tower of Babel incident, for example. But the reason man didn't spread throughout the world at first might have been partly because they were comfortable there, and feared leaving. It is unfortunate -- and ironic -- that that is what caused the language split -- and consequently much of the need for missionaries-- and that a similar fear keeps those who would remedy the problem (missionaries) away from their duty.
Most missions-promoting groups say the same thing in so many ways: leave your comfort zone. And it's a valid call; "comfort zones", however overused, stale, and dull the phrase may be, are real, and the real reason most people *don't* share their faith (with those in a different country or those right at hand).
Also, miracles still occur. Our God is still alive -- really! And He does them for the same reason He always has -- to express His glory. Kind of like metaphysical fireworks. And they're quite good.
Video time. Let's bring everyone's attention to the now-cliche "10-40 window". I particularly like how the narrator says the Buddhists worship "demons". I somehow doubt that they openly believe they are worshiping "demons" in the sense it is understood in English. It is true that a false god is most likely an evil spiritual entity (as opposed to a simple material idol, which is completely powerless), and in that sense (a Christian sense) all false gods are demons. But under such a precedent we would also be called to label as "demon" everything that takes the place of God -- or even *might* do so. Funny stuff -- it reminds me of Adam Sandler's character's mother in "Waterboy". A bitter, backcountry hick who labeled everything she disliked "the devil".
Well, so much for February.