Found this today on another blog I read and really like it. Think about it for a minute…am I really that different?
“The glory of the gospel is that when the Church is absolutely different from the world, she invariably attracts it. It is then that the world is made to listen to her message, though [...]

This is an article I found on crosswalk.com about the findings of research Willow Creek church came out with last fall. I hadn’t heard of it, but maybe you have…I would think this was big news and maybe we just missed it because we’re on the other side of the world. Quite interesting…
http://www.crosswalk.com/pastors/11558438/

I’ve never been in a war or in the middle of a city being bombed, but I can imagine it would sound like what we experienced Chinese New Year’s eve. I’ve seen much better fireworks, but it’s a completely different experience to be in the middle of a city of 100,000 and feel like everyone [...]

JOY. We saw it last summer in believers in India, in Nepal, in Jordan. We have seen it in China up close. It is beautiful. In all those in whom we have seen joy, there is a common thread. . . suffering.
In a previous post I mentioned [...]