“Ambassadors: Two Grave Dangers, along with the Solution”
Christopher Maxwell posted a very good blog post Sunday, August 10th, regarding two dangers (which I term “threats”) to ambassadors for the Lord. As he is reading a Ambassador Joseph Grew (U.S. ambassador to Japan, 1932-1941), Christopher is drawing analogies between Ambassador Grew’s experience in Japan and our experiences here serving the King.
A quote from the post:
As Ambassador Grew was traveling via steamer toward Japan in 1932, he wrote about two dangers that face ambassadors.
The first is the danger of being prejudiced against the nation where one is being sent. “An ambassador who starts prejudiced against the country to which he is accredited might just as well pack up and go home…” Ambassador Grew pointed out that such an attitude would undermine and damage the relationship that was to be built…
Read the rest of the post here (the Maxwell blog is temporarily experiencing temporary difficulties, so you may have to scroll down on the page to view the post).
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