After listening to stories told by missionaries or on a missions podcast, it seems like we are very lethargic or in a fog as American church goers. I have had a ‘ho hum’ attitude toward the miraculous of what God is doing to change lives. For much of my life I’ve believed more in the counseling process of changing mindsets and lifestyles than the power of God intervening in a life. The dramatic interventions by God do not make our news headlines. They type of news might shake our normal and be a threat to many. May God move us to be awake to what He is doing.
“To be honest, I didn't want to believe that Christianity could radically transform someone's character and values. It was much easier to raise doubts and manufacture outrageous objections that to consider the possibility that God actually could trigger a revolutionary turn-around in such a depraved and degenerate life.” - Lee Strobel, The Case for Faith: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity
“What Jesus teaches us puts us out of step with the religious and political systems of the world that use power over, down against others for personal advantage.
What Jesus teaches us moves us beyond us–them thinking with its companion, better than–less than thinking. Everyone is included in the kingdom. No one is an outcast.
Forgiveness is how God deals with sin. Jesus teaches us that God forgives freely, unconditionally, lavishly. Such forgiveness has the power to heal, setting us free from guilt and shame and self-condemnation.” - Excerpt, Following Jesus: Discipleship in the Gospel of Mark by Steve Langford
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