Are you the sort of person who goes to hear a preacher
because he is famous and has many people in his congregation? Do you refuse to go to church if someone is
standing in for his holidays? Is he the
only preacher you will listen to? Don’t
you know he is only a man like you, just a clay pot holding the treasures of
the gospel; if indeed he does preach the
gospel. You are in danger of being
greatly disappointed for this man can fall like any other. Don’t put him on a pedestal or his fall will
be even more catastrophic. Only Jesus should be in that position in your life.
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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