Wednesday, October 31, 2007

same thing, different results? yeah right!

By definition a catalyst is: A substance that changes the rate at which reaction equilibrium is attained, without itself being consumed. Catalysts can increase the rate of reaction (positive catalysts) or decrease them (negative catalysts or inhibitors).
Not all the catalyst work for every chemical reaction, as a mater of act, catalysts are specific agents for specific reactions. As missionaries we are some sort of catalyst, we are to influence and provoke a reaction.
One of my favorite philosophers, Napoleon Dynamite said: “I am pretty much the best that I know”, I want to echo those wise words with a small twist to my person, “I am pretty much the most negative missionary that I know”. What I mean by that is that one of my jobs is to point those practices, traditions, methodologies, that the church of Jesus Christ has, and try to change the course of things. I feel that the church is applying the same catalyst everywhere for every thing, and expecting different results. Of course the risk of doing that, is that among colleagues you will come across as the cocky, and the arrogant, just because you are not willing to keep doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. But that is ok.