There really are only three types of people who are involved together: Kindred spirits, traveling companions, or missionaries. That’s it. I have the opportunity to enjoy and appreciate kindred spirits. If we decide to bind together because we want to accomplish something internal to ourselves, we’ll become traveling companions more interested in just simply sharing space and time for the purpose of enlarging something internal to ourselves. As traveling companions, we have an opportunity to do that. Or we become missionaries, in which case our commitment to each other and to ourselves allows us to find a common goal to which we become committed as missionaries.

The transformation of a kindred spirit into a missionary can only be accomplished within a sense of community or relationship. We may start off as kindred spirits, but we only become missionaries when we are prepared to embrace the community within which we operate together. The community, and the culture within which we operate, create missionaries out of kindred spirits and traveling companions. There are those of you today who are kindred spirits. There are some of you who are even traveling companions. And there’s an even smaller quantity of those of you who are indeed missionaries in that work. I am first and foremost seeking kindred spirits. But at the end of the day, it’s only missionaries who produce missionary results.

There will come a day in which missionaries, traveling companions, and kindred spirits will eventually have to meet their maker. Shall we do it with companionship in mind, internal goals in mind, or joint mission in mind? That choice is an individual choice and has to be expressed each and every day.

Original writing date: November 30, 2005

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