Avatar and Motives for Mission

“We’ve built them a hospital, taught them English, given them medicine…..what more do they want?” The line in the movie Avatar goes something like that. If you’ve seen it recently you may have been struck by how possible it is for evil motives to fire social action. “We’ll do XYZ so that we can get what we want.” In Avatar it was access and possession of a precious mineral. In mission life it could be acceptance and trust in a community in order to be able to preach and find receptivity to the gospel.