Lee Schnabel is old. Not as old as me, but getting there.

Old men, grey hair and wisdom go together if you believe the Proverbs. Lee is tearing it up, training leaders in Paraguay, Bolivia, Ecuador

and Nicaragua. Two nations dominated by left-wing dictators and two trapped in poverty.

The key to Lee's success in these and his history in other Latin American nations is found in ancient history.

He, long ago, rejected the Catholic/Protestant idea that data dumping scripture made effective Christ-followers. His approach is to disciple

leaders in the stuff they'll be doing from one week to the next. It can be dangerous to oversimplify anything, but he says "If we can't do it with

the Bible alone, something's wrong."

The interview touches on why most lower-income Americans are as locked out of a theological education as people living in the "green-hell" jungles of Bolivia. Worse, we're preventing many potential leaders from ministering to their own people while spending ever-more

dollars sending poorly acculturated missionaries.

This is no lesson on foreign missions, but a primer for reaching people two blocks from your church location.

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