Archive for July, 2005
Monday, July 11th, 2005
Even so, to talk about the business of the church is to talk also about disagreement, tension, and conflict. As more people participate there will be more ideas as to how things should go, and thus there will be more controversy. So there is no doubt that the larger, commissary-type churches have the easier time [...]
Saturday, July 9th, 2005
Because women in the twenty-first century [in the U.S.] have basic human rights, we often take for granted the revolutionary aspect of Jesus’ bold efforts to elevate women in a society that degraded them. What seems like a normal action to us—Jesus intimate conversation with the Samaritan woman at the well, for example—was really a [...]
Friday, July 8th, 2005
Knowing where we are going is only a small part of any journey. We must discern danger, avoid distraction, and keep from stumbling—and if we stumble be sure that there is a brother nearby to help us stand.
Wednesday, July 6th, 2005
Weihsien camp’s greatest difficulties with law and order had to do not so much with justice as with the strength of its laws. The main problem was the political one of generating governmental power, rather than of ruling with wisdom and justice—though that was by no means easy. It seemed strange that in an enemy [...]
Friday, July 1st, 2005
The works of faith, warfare works that shame the darkness and vanquish wickedness, are born in the prayer room, not in the boardroom.
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