Are You Afraid You'll Get Caught?

An American pastor once asked an Indonesian missionary who works among Indonesians but with a different people group from his own, “Are you afraid you’ll get caught?” Christian mission work in Indonesia has risks – sometimes from the government, radical Islamists, and/or even from one’s own friends and family.

As soon as the question was translated into Bahasa Indonesian, this missionary smiled enormously and said something in Indonesian. His wife, who works for the same organization, elbowed him and said something and then his boss said something and they all started belly laughing!…