Tuesday, October 19, 2004

Instead, pray for Liberty

AS MISSIONARIES, my wife and I have seen the "fruit" peace produces.
CHRISTIANS shouldn't use peace to define a nation's moral health. North Korea is a peaceful country. Cuba is a peaceful country. When we first deployed to Vietnam, it was a very peaceful country.
PRECISELY because there is no freedom of expression, freedom of worship, or of association --peace rules these places.
IF YOU ARE a student of history a better measure of a nation's health would be Liberty.
INDEED, liberty bears witness to the mission of Jesus Christ, and was the reason for His incarnation.
IF THE ENTIRE world lived in peace, Earth would be nothing more than a giant penal colony - the 3rd rock from the sun.

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