I've
been asked my thoughts on this but through friends back in the states
and Nicaraguans here.... I've been hoping that there would be a
recant.... A message that would follow that would say...this was only a
clip taken out of context...here is the real message....but I guess we
all knew it probably wasn't coming. It is what it is.
The night this first aired I had just finished a Bible Study in the dump...surrounded by some of the worst living conditions I have ever experienced...k we talked out our choices that we made in life and the good and bad consequences that come with them...and then we talked about when things come our way...even when we don't choose them. We talked about how in this world...we won't fit in...as Christian's..we will not ever feel at home here...and if we do...then we need to reevaluate how we are living and who we are serving. We talked about how the closer we live for God the more trials and bad things will probably come our way....and that's okay because our eyes will be on Christ and He is all the encouragement that we need.
The night this first aired I had just finished a Bible Study in the dump...surrounded by some of the worst living conditions I have ever experienced...k we talked out our choices that we made in life and the good and bad consequences that come with them...and then we talked about when things come our way...even when we don't choose them. We talked about how in this world...we won't fit in...as Christian's..we will not ever feel at home here...and if we do...then we need to reevaluate how we are living and who we are serving. We talked about how the closer we live for God the more trials and bad things will probably come our way....and that's okay because our eyes will be on Christ and He is all the encouragement that we need.
And then I came back to Hope Central and saw this.
We need to pray...pray for a real revival. Smoke and mirrors eventually clear away and what will be left is what is real....pray that what is left is Truth and doesn't burn away with the smoke.
We need to love...love as Christ as loved us. He is the judge...the fair judge...we are called to extend His love so that they might know Him....and we never really know who the "they" might be.
We need to be real...It is time as believers that we, ourselves, need to drop the "Christian facade" that our lives are beautiful and perfect thus we be thought less than and be real with one another so that when we encounter trials....we can help one another, shouldering the burdens together.
Yes, he who casts the first stone......but sometimes, the stones seem to speak for themselves....
We need to pray...pray for a real revival. Smoke and mirrors eventually clear away and what will be left is what is real....pray that what is left is Truth and doesn't burn away with the smoke.
We need to love...love as Christ as loved us. He is the judge...the fair judge...we are called to extend His love so that they might know Him....and we never really know who the "they" might be.
We need to be real...It is time as believers that we, ourselves, need to drop the "Christian facade" that our lives are beautiful and perfect thus we be thought less than and be real with one another so that when we encounter trials....we can help one another, shouldering the burdens together.
Yes, he who casts the first stone......but sometimes, the stones seem to speak for themselves....
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