I have to confess this a bit. I really enjoy missions work much more than church work.  I am not alone in this. The Monastic movement in the early churches (Orthodox, Coptic, Nestorian, Roman Catholic, Celtic and Abyssinian... at least) was a rejection, in part, of the spirituality of church life. Although Monasticism sounds selfish, …

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