Wednesday, October 11, 2006

Dial Daily Bread

Dear Friends of "Dial Daily Bread":

Never have we had a greater longing to understand “Bible prophecy” than now: what is North Korea up to, and what will they do? Are they already in the Nuclear Club? The TV glimpses of those hordes of goose-stepping soldiers reawakens our personal fears of Hitler’s goose-stepping Nazis of the 1930’s. We don’t again want high tech militarism in the hands of totalitarian, hateful fanatics. And a crippling war in the Middle East is a strain already on our own resources; we dread a re-play of the horrors of the Asian theatre of World Wars II and Viet Nam. Worst of all, we fear the unloosing of the demons within ourselves once we start down the pathway of our own Abu Ghraibs and Gitmo tortures.

 

If we knew all the “prophecy” answers, we could attract crowds again to hear our preaching; but “though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity [agape], I am nothing” (1 Cor. 13:2). The history of “evangelism” in those tumultuous decades is not too glorious; curious people were attracted, yes, but in general they didn’t strengthen the “body of Christ.”

 

The KJV word “charity” seems nebulous, but ADRA is not the definition of the original word, wonderful as its mountain-moving accomplishments are. What the present world hungers to hear is the revelation of agape; it’s a “science” of truth well worth careful study in our highest institutions of learning. A well-trained “army of youth” who understand it will indeed finish the gospel commission on earth.

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