I enjoyed this short piece at CNN by David Platt, pastor of the Church at Brook Hills in Birmingham, Alabama. It seems as if this evangelical mega-church is doing some very good things. Here is a snippet:
And it’s not just distant needs we’re trying to meet. It’s also needs near at hand.
One day I called up the Department of Human Resources in Shelby County, Alabama, where our church is located, and asked, “How many families would you need in order to take care of all the foster and adoption needs that we have in our county?”
The woman I was talking to laughed.
I said, “No, really, if a miracle were to take place, how many families would be sufficient to cover all the different needs you have?”
She replied, “It would be a miracle if we had 150 more families.”
When I shared this conversation with our church, over 160 families signed up to help with foster care and adoption. We don’t want even one child in our county to be without a loving home. It’s not the way of the American Dream. It doesn’t add to our comfort, prosperity, or ease. But we are discovering the indescribable joy of sacrificial love for others, and along the way we are learning more about the inexpressible wonder of God’s sacrificial love for us.
Now, don’t get me wrong. I love my country and I couldn’t be more grateful for its hard-won freedoms. The challenge before we American Christians, as I see it, is to use the freedoms, resources, and opportunities at our disposal while making sure not to embrace values and assumptions that contradict what God has said in the Bible.
I believe God has a dream for people today. It’s just not the same as the American Dream.
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شركة تنظيف منازل شمال الرياض
شركة تنظيف منازل شرق الرياض
شركة تنظيف منازل غرب الرياض
شركة تنظيف منازل جنوب الرياض
شركة عزل خزانات بالرياض
شركة عزل خزانات شمال الرياض
شركة عزل خزانات شرق الرياض
شركة عزل خزانات جنوب الرياض
شركة عزل خزانات غرب الرياض
شركة عزل ارضيات بالرياض
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