Today is the 62nd anniversary of D-Day. I know this might sound stupid and trivial but it wasn’t until I saw the movie Saving Private Ryan that the sheer terror and horror of the surrounding events had an impact. I’m not comparing watching the movie to storming the beach. Certainly I knew about the events prior to the movie. Seeing the battle scene, hearing the bullets whiz around, and feeling the thud of mortar explosions rumbling gave me a greater appreciation for those who stormed those beaches.
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I was having a discussion yesterday with one of our Spanish speaking church members. He was lamenting the state of the Hispanic church in America. He talked about he, himself, didn’t know everything about the Bible but didn’t believe that increasing in Bible knowledge required a decrease in rationale and logic. It seems most of our Hispanic churches are where the Anglo churches were 20-30 years ago. That’s the result when The Church is preached and The Christ is not.
He was worried that some of the more “mature” Christians (his parenthesis not mine) were so insistent that everyone see things their way. He was worried that these same “mature” Christians interpret the Bible without any common sense. He believes God calls us to be thinking people. That our job is to see how best we can live for Christ. He doesn’t see how the advancement of “sacred” (his parenthesis not mine) traditions is ever going to win his people for Christ.
He feels unqualified to say much in this area because he has only been a Christian for 5 years. He never even read the Bible until about five years ago. He will be the first to tell you that he’s not perfect and continues to make mistakes trying to live like Christ. He’s ahead of the curve, in my opinion, for where many are reading to live under a system he has been reading to live for a Savior.
AC FACT OF THE DAY:
1902 — Willis Carrier builds the first air conditioner to combat humidity inside a printing company. Controlling the humidity in printing companies and textile mills was the start of managing the inside environments.
