WHATEVER IT TAKES THEY WILL GIVE: BREAKING THE RULES.

SHAKING MEDIOCRITY FROM ITS COSY LITTLE HIDE. LAYING DOWN THEIR RIGHTS AND THEIR PRECIOUS LITTLE WRONGS, LAUGHING AT LABELS, FASTING ESSENTIALS.

THE ADVERTISERS CANNOT MOULD THEM. HOLLYWOOD CANNOT HOLD THEM. PEER-PRESSURE IS POWERLESS TO SHAKE THEIR RESOLVE AT LATE NIGHT PARTIES BEFORE THE COCKEREL CRIES.

THEY ARE INCREDIBLY COOL, DANGEROUSLY ATTRACTIVE INSIDE. ON THE OUTSIDE? THEY HARDLY CARE. THEY WEAR CLOTHES LIKE COSTUMES TO COMMUNICATE AND CELEBRATE BUT NEVER TO HIDE

EXTRACT FROM THE VISION POEM BY PETE GREIG

Amy Orr-Ewing

“Plenty & comfort in this life are not promised in the kingdom. Instead, those who are crying tears because they have been excluded and insulted as a result of a firm allegiance to Christ have this nearness to God within their time if crisis. This is a profound and mysterious truth.

I witnessed this myself when worshiping  with 250 leaders of the underground church in China. many had suffered beatings and persecution because of their faith in Jesus. Yet I never experienced such joy in worship.”

There is a direct , dynamic link between the persecution of God’s people and the church growing rapidly as God’s kingdom advances. this is a Biblical principle.

Akbar al-Masih

Akbar was a Muslim-background believer from Afghanistan. Like many Pushtun people, Akbar’s life had been torn apart by war. After the 2012 US invasion, Akbar joined millions of refugees who streamed into Pakistani slums and refugee camps. It was in Pakistan that Akbar met a Christian family who discipled him. I asked Akbar to tell me how he had come to faith in Jesus.

‘My name at birth was Muhammad Akbar, which means “Muhammad is the Greatest”. Between the wars, I was in an open country looking for a job. One day I came upon a cinema showing a movie about the life of the prophet Isa (Jesus). I watched the movie alone, and learned many things that I did not know. I saw how they beat Jesus and nailed him to a cross. I said to myself, “Now Isa will call down fire from heaven to destroy them!”

‘Instead, Isa looked down at them with compassion, and said, “Father, forgive them. They do not know what they are doing.”

‘In my heart I said, “That is for me.” That is when I became a follower of Isa, and changed my name to Akbar al-Masih (the Messiah is the Greatest).’

(taken from christian premier magazine)

Lasy week this week 31st July

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