A healthy church is one in which the Bible takes central
place. After all where else can we find
out about God, what He is like and what He requires of us. I recently saw a DVD of about twenty minutes
long on the subject of suffering. It was
very late in the DVD before the Bible was even mentioned, when the story of Job
was alluded to. What sort of a “Christian”
DVD was this to try and understand how God deals with us if we didn’t go to the
Bible to find out. My advice would be to
find a church or small house group where the Bible is honoured as God’s word
and only source for our beliefs. Such people are in a minority these days but
they are honouring God and will be blessed.
I have written in previous posts about disasters. In the case of Concorde, decisions by people, plus other factors were directly to blame for the event. In the case of the Penlee disaster it may have been avoided if someone had made a better choice in the time beforehand and as a consequence brave men and the ship's crew and the captain and his family died. 9/11 was certainly the result of wicked men committing a terrorist act, but even in this there was heroism notably by another Cornish man, Rick Rescorla who helped many to safety and left it too late to help himself. In situations like this we see what the human spirit is capable of both good and evil. What of disasters that come on people because of the earth restless movement of tectonic plates. Often people live near volcanoes because the land is rich and fertile and they have the chance of a better life there when the volcano is resting. We cannot blame them for that but sometimes people become complacent...
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