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When I stepped to the pulpit of the Roswell Church of Christ in Kansas City, Kan., on a recent Sunday, I made an, um, embarrassing miscue.I left my Bible on the front pew.
I owe my personal blooper to two facts:
• I’m a writer, not a preacher, and standing in front of an audience to share God’s word always makes me a bit nervous.
• I’ve converted in recent years to digital Bible reading and study, so I’ve become unaccustomed to carrying around a thick, printed version of the Scriptures.
Much to my relief, the kind brothers and sisters of the Roswell church — where I had spent the weekend working on an upcoming feature for The Christian Chronicle — forgave my lapse.
Three years ago, I wrote a column headlined “Texting during worship? No, just reading the text.” I reflected on the increasing number of Christians using smartphones and other electronic devices to access the Bible and take notes during worship assemblies.
Given my Roswell experience, I decided to revisit the subject. I asked readers of the Chronicle’s blog: Do you use a printed Bible or digital version at church services?
The 75 readers who responded by press time split almost evenly between print and digital — with a number of folks saying they use both.
“When I preach, I still carry my print Bible to the pulpit, but I have all of the Scriptures on the projector,” said Mike Miles, who preaches for the Westside Church of Christ in Ames, Iowa. “In my personal study, I use BibleGateway.com and YouVersion on my smartphone, though I still like flipping through my print Bibles for their handy, convenient commentaries.”
Theresa Gill, a member of the Nettleton Church of Christ in Jonesboro, Ark., met her future husband, Tim, on the online social networking site Facebook.
But when it comes to Bible study, she prefers the leather-bound King James Version that Tim gave her when they first met. “I just love the feel of my Bible and enjoy turning the delicate pages,” she said. “(There’s) nothing better to me than an old, marked-up Bible that says love.”
Jon Burnett, a member of the Waldorf Church of Christ in Maryland, said he considers his iPad a wonderful tool for Bible study and uses the tablet computer almost exclusively for sermon and Bible class preparation.
In worship assemblies, though, he fears his iPad could be a distraction.
“Otherwise, I have a tendency to go my own way — like following a personal tangent in the middle of a lesson,” he said. Moreover, he’s afraid his 3-year-old, Lizzie, might not understand why she can’t color or watch videos on the iPad during the service.
Angela Brown, a member of the Margaret Street Church of Christ in Milton, Fla., describes herself as a “Bible version jumper.”
That’s why she enjoys the ability to carry her printed New International Version of the Bible along with her iPad, which allows her to access other translations and make legible notes.
Her husband, Michael, leaves his Kindle Fire at home and takes his big New King James Version Bible to church, his wife said.
Brown said she’s planning to buy her children, Michael, 17, and Hannah, 14, electronic devices so they can get more out of their Bible studies. “I don’t worry about them getting sidetracked or surfing the net while in services because they have been raised to know why we are at worship,” she said. “Plus, they know Mama will do a search history if I think they have misused them.”
For some, however, digital Bibles still carry a stigma. “I prefer to have a printed Bible to use when I am teaching class, doing Bible studies with others or just my daily reading,” said Tom Henry, a member of the 47th Street Church of Christ in Wichita, Kan.
“I feel it adds reliability to what I say,” Henry added. “My source is the Bible and not an Android website somewhere. When teaching someone, which is more believable: Acts 2:38 read from a phone or a well-used printed Bible? I will use the printed page.”
Patrick Odum, minister for the Northwest Church of Christ in Chicago, uses an iPad when preaching.
“I have many different translations, the Greek and the Hebrew and commentaries available at my fingertips, and I find it as quick or sometimes quicker to flip between passages,” Odum said. “Not to mention the fact that I hate wearing my reading glasses in the pulpit, and I’m getting to the point where I need those!”
The iPad allows him to enlarge the text lettering as much as he likes.
“I did have a lady say once that she wished I still used the Bible when I preached,” Odum said. “I showed her the app and asked which Bible she wanted me to use.”
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| PHOTO PROVIDED Big check - Donald Cathy, senior vice president of Chick-fil-A, speaks at the HIllcrest Church of Christ in Decatur, Ga. Contributors, including Chick-fil-A employees, gave a combined $1 million to the church's building fund in memory of Donald A. Perry, a church elder and vice president of public relations for Chick-fil-A who died July 27. At right are Cathy's wife, Cindy, Perry's widow, Marilyn, and the church's minister, Richard Barclay. |
That’s the amount the Atlanta-area church received toward its $5.2 million renovation project, which will include a 1,500-seat sanctuary and new facilities for its education program and offices.
Much of the large donation came from the National Christian Foundation. Headquartered in nearby Alpharetta, the organization "is the largest Christian grant-making foundation in the world," according to its website.
Contributors, including Chick-fil-A employees, gave funds in memory of Donald A. Perry, who served for 15 years as an elder of the Hillcrest church.
Perry, vice president of public relations for Chick-fil-A, died July 27 of a heart attack. He was 60.
The large donation, which places the church’s renovation project “on the brink of success,” was equally unexpected, Holsendolph said.
Cathy, one of the sons of Chick-fil-A founder S. Truett Cathy, had previously told the church’s leaders that they would receive a donation of $250,000 toward the project, Holsendolph told The Christian Chronicle. Church leaders invited Donald Cathy and his wife, Cindy, to the congregation’s Sept. 9 worship service to show their appreciation for the gift.
When the couple arrived, Donald Cathy told the congregation that the donation had quadrupled to $1 million.
The contribution was a welcome tribute to Perry, who had spearheaded the church’s renovation project, Holsendolph said.
“For all his business success, (Perry) said his most challenging work — and most satisfying — was in the church,” said Holsendolph.
Holsendolph once interviewed Perry about his ministry as a church elder, to which Perry replied, “I’m still learning … but the consuming challenge is to try to keep brothers and sisters on the same page, pulling together for Christ, in an environment that is so diverse in so many ways.”
Perry’s death received national media attention due to the public relations firestorm surrounding comments by Chick-fil-A’s president and Donald Cathy’s brother, Dan Cathy, who told a Baptist newspaper that he backs “the biblical definition of a family.”
Gay rights groups called for a boycott of Chick-fil-A. They also criticized the National Christian Foundation, which has received donations from the WinShape Foundation, the charitable arm of Chick-fil-A. Both foundations give grants to organizations that oppose gay marriage, according to gay rights groups.
Chick-fil-A representatives — including Perry — denied that organizations supported by WinShape harbor an “anti-gay” agenda. In a statement released to media, Perry said that the focus of Chick-fil-A’s corporate giving is “toward compassion, principally by serving youth and families.”
Despite the stresses of Perry’s career, “he didn’t bring his work over here,” said Richard Barclay, senior minister for the Hillcrest church. In his job, “he didn’t speak for the kingdom. He spoke for Chick-fil-A.”
After Sunday worship, Perry’s widow, Marilyn, thanked the Cathys for the generous donation and said she hopes that the gift will be a unifying force for church members as they reach out to their community.
“Let us all come together — even former members who have moved away,” Marilyn Perry said. “Come together because we have work to do in this community.”
“Let us keep faith with Don,” she added. “He really loved this church.”
FOR MORE INFORMATION on the Don Perry memorial fund, see www.hillcrestcoc.net.
The minister, his family, and the 60 members of the Varreaux Church of Christ, where he preaches, were spared in the wake of a 7.0-magnitude earthquake that destroyed much of Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince.
The disaster claimed more than claimed 230,000 lives and made millions homeless, including Saint-Hubert, who lived for months in a tent near the ruins of his church's meeting place.
Now, "once more nature has renewed the hurt of the Haitian people," the minister said after Hurricane Isaac ripped through his Caribbean homeland, still recovering from the devastation of “la tranble,” or “the shaking,” the Creole term many in Haiti use to refer to the Jan. 12, 2010, earthquake.
Haiti's most recent disaster, Isaac, claimed at least 24 lives and caused widespread flooding in the Port-au-Prince area. Twenty families at the Varreaux church were affected, Saint-Hubert said, and the storm ripped away the roof of a Christian school operated by the church — a school rebuilt after the earthquake.
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| PHOTO PROVIDED Haiti relief - John Short and Harry Hames stand next to boxes of Healing Hands International relief supplies bound for Haiti. |
Homes in the impoverished neighborhood of Cite Soleil were damaged, said Ken Bever, president of Hope for Haiti's Children, a church-supported ministry that works with orphans and churches in the area.
"We have reports that we also had major damage to our two schools which are in the high mountains of Archaie — Robert and Brajirois," Bever said. "We are working now to assess the extent of this damage."
In Cullman, Ala., Healing Hands International, a church-supported relief ministry, loaded a plane with tents, tarps and personal care kits bound for Haiti. Pilot Jon Short volunteered his time to fly the shipment, accompanied by Harry Hames, Haiti coordinator for Healing Hands.
Hames, a deacon of the Beltline Church of Christ in Decatur, Ala., has worked in Haiti for the past 30 months. Churches of Christ in Haiti will receive the supplies, he said.
Some of the relief will go to Sophia Martelly, the wife of Haiti's President Michel Martelly. Workers with Healing Hands recently donated an automated external defibrillator, or AED, to the First Lady, Hames said.
A few weeks after the delivery, Haiti hosted a three-day event called the "Carnival of Flowers." A person at the celebration had a heart attack and was revived by the AED.
Sophia Martelly will help distribute the latest shipment of aid donated by Healing Hands in tent camps.
"Water in some areas has been reported as deep as 6 feet, causing mudslides and mosquito-infested pools," Hames said.
Burt Nowers, Healing Hands' president, said that, along with the tents and tarps, the ministry "will also be sending water filters and water purification tablets as requested by the Haitian government."
"This is just a drop in the bucket of help that is needed," Nowers said. TO CONTRIBUTE to relief, contact Healing Hands International at www.hhi.org. Contact Hope for Haiti's Children at hopeforhaitischildren.org.
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A poster from 1946, showing staff and students at Nashville Christian Institute, stands next to the registration table for the NCI reunion. (Photo by Erik Tryggestad) |
In 1935, after addressing a chapel audience at Abilene Christian College (now Abilene Christian University), African-American evangelist Marshall Keeble wrote:
The boys and girls are wonderfully trained for future service in the church. I hope some day to see a school for our colored boys and girls because it is badly needed. Our young preachers are doing fine when we consider that they have no place to be trained by such godly men as (E.H.) Ijams, (N.B) Hardeman, Cox and Armstrong. I pray that these men may live long.
Seventy-seven years later, former students have gathered to fellowship and reminisce about their years at the Nashville Christian Institute. From 1940 to 1968, “the house on 24th Avenue” in Nashville was the realization of Keeble’s dream — a place where black youths could receive a Christian education as they were equipped for ministry.
The NCI reunion happens every two years, rotating among the cities of the South, arriving back in the Nashville area about every six years, said Fred Gray. The civil rights attorney for Martin Luther King Jr., best known for representing Rosa Parks, is an NCI alum. In 1967 he filed a lawsuit that challenged the transfer of NCI’s assets to David Lipscomb College (now Lipscomb University), exposing a deep divide between black and white members of Churches of Christ.
Recently, Christian Chronicle managing editor Bobby Ross Jr. reported on the university’s efforts to heal old wounds as it awarded Gray an honorary doctorate.
I spoke with Gray and a few of the school’s alumni at a mixer in the lobby of the Embassy Suites in Franklin. Some came from as far away as Washington, D.C., and California.
Despite the school’s humble beginnings and financial challenges, it produced graduates who became physicians, lawyers, teachers and politicians.
Margaret Beamon, who was helping with registration, said that her mother, Louise Johnson, was the driving force behind her time at NCI. Johnson insisted that all eight of her children attend. Beamon worked for 40 years in the Milwaukee public school system. One of her brothers, Albert Johnson, was the mayor of Las Cruces, N.M. — the first black mayor in the state of New Mexico. Beamon is a member of the 40th Avenue Church of Christ in Nashville.
I also met Wendell Wilkie Gunn. After his time at NCI, he became the first black student to enroll at Florence State College in Alabama (now the University of North Alabama). His admission to the college was the result of another lawsuit filed by Gray in 1963.
After graduating with a degree in chemistry and mathematics, he went on to serve as special assistant to President Ronald Reagan for international trade from 1982-84. He concentrated on trade negotiations in Southeast Asia. Now he’s a semi-retired consultant and a member of the Stamford Church of Christ in Connecticut.
Gunn said he played only the tiniest of roles in America’s struggle for civil rights.
Speaking to his fellow NCI alum, Gray, he said, “You guys looked into the mouth of the beast every day, for years.”
from the Christian Chronicle Blog
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Children in the Freedom Schools program show their excitment. (Photo via www.thecincinnatiherald.com) |
More than 50 students out for the past summer school break returned to school last week better prepared and inspired to tackle their assignments due to the Children’s Defense Fund Freedom Schools program provided at Gray Road Church of Christ.
The program provides summer and after school enrichment that helps children fall in love with reading, increases self-esteem, and generates more positive attitudes toward learning.
Tracey Jasper, whose husband Craig Jasper is assistant pastor at Gray Road Church of Christ, directs the program there.
Jasper said the children developed such a strong desire to read that they want to read to other children in the program. Some parents report their children are requesting them to take them to the library often, she said. And the children are using the dictionary to learn new words.
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| Cosmetology instructor Prabina Shiwakoti gives Linda Egle a henna tattoo at a safe house in southern Nepal. (Photo by Erik Tryggestad) |
Now online, “A mission of hands and feet,” a report from my recent trip to Nepal with four members of the Highland Church of Christ in Abilene, Texas. Two of them work for Eternal Threads, an Abilene-based nonprofit that sells fair-trade items crafted by women in a dozen countries.
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| Jonathan Storment gets a pedicure at a safe house in southern Nepal. (Photo by Erik Tryggestad)</ |
In Nepal, Eternal Threads partners with a Nepali-operated nonprofit, Kingdom Investments Nepal, that fights the scourge of human trafficking — young girls lured from their villages, taken across the border into India, and sold into lives of slavery in brothels.
You’ll also find a gallery with photos not included in our print edition.
Though I’ve traveled internationally for The Christian Chronicle for a decade, the journey to Nepal was unique.
I’m used to covering gospel campaigns, medical mission trips and dedication ceremonies for new schools and clinics. I’ve shot photos in a mountain village in Ecuador, a crowded home Bible study in India and a thatch-roof church building in Sudan.
But this was my first beauty salon.
Our team took photos and videos of young women — rescued from human traffickers — as they practiced waxing each other’s arms. We also partook of the salon’s services. Linda Egle, Eternal Threads’ founder, got a henna tattoo while Jennifer Patterson, an Eternal Threads staffer, received an eyebrow plucking through a method called “threading.” It did not look fun. (The things women subject themselves to … amazing.)
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Jonathan Storment inspects Erik Tryggestad's haircut. (Photo by Linda Egle) |
Jonathan Storment, the Highland church’s minister, boldly stepped forward to receive a pedicure. I made sure to get pictures. (A few weeks ago I posted on Facebook: “I’m processing close-up photos of Jonathan Storment’s feet … and wondering how my life came to this.”)
The girls asked if there was anything they could do for me. I actually had forgotten to get a haircut before I left the U.S., so they obliged, and did a great job.
If you’re interested in joining the fight against human trafficking, Eternal Threads is looking for volunteers to host “Gatherings” — retreats and get-togethers where people can share the nonprofit’s story and provide a marketplace for its products. Follow this link for more information on hosting a Gathering.
Is your congregation, ministry or school involved in the global fight against human trafficking? Please share the details.
Here’s a trailer for a film about Kingdom Investments Nepal, the Nepali nonprofit that partners with Eternal Threads. It will give you a feel for how workers with the nonprofit intercept potential human traffickers.
Border Girls – Trailer from Eternal Threads on Vimeo.
And here’s a video produced by Matt Pinson about Eternal Threads’ work in Nepal.
Eternal Threads from Highland Church on Vimeo.
from the Christian Chronicle Blog
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PHOTO BY BOBBY ROSS JR.
Jerry gives thanks for another hot meal at the River City Ministry. The North Little Rock, Ark., ministry is associated with Churches of Christ.
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INSIDE THE ‘RED ZONE’
PROGRESS IN INCHES, NOT MILES
LOVE ON THE LUNCH MENU
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| Sun photo by Randi Shaffer A worker from Laracey House Movers props the Gilmore Church of Christ up on blocks to move it off its foundation July 31. |
When most people think of buildings that can be moved, they think of mobile homes.
Not century-old churches. Farwell’s Gilmore Church of Christ is in the middle of a multi-week moving process, during which the 111-year-old building will be picked up, moved a few yards backward and then slid over top of a new foundation. “The foundation was crumbling,” minister Kevin Smith said. “It’s going to be quite an elaborate project. I don’t think anybody’s ever moved a building of that size in this area, a church building especially.” Smith said that originally, Gilmore Church of Christ was setting aside money to buy a new parcel of land and build a new building, but the land the church had hoped to obtain did not become available.
While it would have cost $500,000 to build a new church, re-building the foundation of the current church and moving the church will only cost a fraction of that, he said. Ken Seymour, an elder and a deacon in the church, said the estimated cost of the project is less than $120,000 with the use of volunteers from the area.
The project started in mid-June, when several members of the church’s congregation met and decided they had to do something about the building’s failing foundation. After checking with various construction companies in the area, Seymour got a hold of Mark 
Rosebrock with Kalkawin-based Laracey House Movers. “He looked at it and ... he thought it was well solid enough, built well enough,” Seymour said. “It was built by ... our past congregation, the men that built it — most of them were farmers and barn builders and I think you can see that from the way the building is built. That’s the way they built it and the barns stood, so the church should stand also.” Seymour said the church was constructed with area stones and trees, and ax marks are still visible on full-length beams that were chopped and split by hand.
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| WWW.CHICK-FIL-A.COM Chick-fil-A spokesman - Donald A. Perry, vice president of public relations for Chick-fil-A, was an elder of the Hillcrest Church of Christ near Atlanta. |
“Don was a member of our Chick-fil-A family for nearly 29 years,” representatives of the Georgia-based restaurant chain said in a news release. “He was a well-respected and well-liked media executive in the Atlanta and University of Georgia communities, and we will all miss him.
“Our thoughts and prayers are with his family.”
Perry’s family includes the 900-member Hillcrest Church of Christ in Decatur, Ga., where he and his wife, Marilyn, have worshiped for 19 years. For 15 of those years Donald Perry served as a church elder.
“Our church is certainly devastated by this loss,” Richard Barclay, the church’s senior minister, told The Christian Chronicle.
Donald Perry shepherded the congregation’s marriage ministry, ladies’ ministry and adult education program. He also was active an integral part of the church’s current building project, designed to expand the congregation’s facilities as it grows.
“He was a visionary man, a dedicated man … a kingdom man,” Barclay said.
Perry’s death received national media attention due to the public relations firestorm surrounding comments by Chick-fil-A’s president, Dan Cathy.
Cathy, the son of the company’s founder, S. Truett Cathy, told a Baptist newspaper that he backs “the biblical definition of a family.” Gay rights groups called for a boycott of Chick-fil-A. Politicians in cities including Boston and Chicago told the chain it is not welcome there.
About a week before his death, Perry issued a statement that the restaurant chain intended “to leave the policy debate over same-sex marriage to the government and political arena,” according to the Los Angeles Times.
As the Hillcrest church makes plans for Donald Perry’s memorial service, Barclay said he’s struggling with the decision of whether or not to allow media to attend.
“He didn’t bring his work over here,” Barclay said of the church elder. In his job, “he didn’t speak for the kingdom. He spoke for Chick-fil-A.”
A native of Claysville in south Georgia, Donald Perry was baptized in 1971 in Callaway Gardens, Ga.
He was one of the first African-Americans to study at the University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism, where he earned a degree in public relations, according to the Hillcrest church’s website. His wife is a graduate of the university’s business school. The couple attended the Simpson Street Church of Christ in Atlanta before moving to Hillcrest.
During a church conference seven years ago, Donald Perry shared a round of golf with Barclay, then a preacher in the Houston area. The church elder gave the minister his card and told him to come visit him in Atlanta, where he promised to treat Barclay to a chicken sandwich.
“Don was the one who was instrumental in coaxing me out of Texas,” Barclay said.
The suddenness of the elder’s death shocked the congregation, the minister added. In February the church lost another of its leaders, deacon Bob Smith, after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. Members still mourn that loss.
“With Bob, we had months,” Barclay said. “With Don, we had minutes.”
During Sunday worship, two days after Donald Perry’s death, Barclay preached from the Old Testament book of Joshua, which tells the story of the Israelites after the loss of Moses. “Moses was called home” before he could enter the Promised Land, Barclay said, “but God was the one who made the promise. And God will keep his promise.”
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| PHOTO BY SARAH JANE KYLE Prayer after shooting - Southeast Church of Christ elders lead a prayer Sunday for the victims of the Aurora, Colo., theater massacre as well as for the suspect, James Holmes. |
AURORA, COLO. - Larry Wishard stepped to the front of the Southeast Church of Christ, a touch of weariness hidden behind his ever-cheerful disposition.
His head dipped, and his fingers wrapped around the edges of the wooden pulpit from which he’s preached for 30 years. He looked out at a congregation that, while shaken, stood resilient in the face of a movie-theater massacre that traumatized this Denver-area city — and the nation.
In the pews was Debora Marcoux, a longtime church member who had received a terrifying call just two days before.
Her niece Kirstin Davis, 21, who had lived with Marcoux for more than a year, had been in the theater when a gunman opened fire Friday during a midnight premiere of “The Dark Knight Rises.”
“When I picked her up, she had blood all over her,” Marcoux said of Davis, who left the theater physically unscathed but emotionally shattered.
Davis’ boyfriend, Eugene, suffered a bullet wound but survived.
“I wanted to get her away from the confusion so she could cry,” the church member said of her niece, whom she considers more like a daughter. “She was trying to be strong for everyone. … She’ll make it through. She’s a strong Christian, and I’m proud of her.”
While Marcoux is confident in her niece’s faith, she worries that other young people who were in the theater will begin to waver after witnessing such tragedy firsthand.
“Pray for all of those kids to continue on with their lives,” she said. “I’m scared they’re going to be so withdrawn that they don’t want to continue their service with the Lord.”
A LIGHT IN THE DARKNESS
Early Friday, a gunman opened fire on moviegoers at Century 16 Theaters in Aurora, killing 12 and injuring at least 58 who had entered the theater for a night of fun but left with terror.
Just hours after gunshots shattered his city, Wishard began grieving alongside victims and their families.
He serves with the Key Community Response Team, a collaboration of city officials, ministers and police and fire department officers who respond to tragedy and become the “eyes and ears” of the community in times of trouble.
At the Medical Center of Aurora, the Southeast Church of Christ minister reached out as small clusters of people waited in an eerie calm to learn the fate of loved ones. He prayed over teens who lost one of their own. (Read his first-person account of the emotional day of the shooting.)
“In those hours, I had seen my town blown apart by this murderer,” Wishard said. “I had seen a diverse group of people come together to help each other.
“Which church one attended didn’t matter. One’s skin color didn’t matter. One’s socioeconomic group didn’t matter. What mattered was helping everyone get through.”
He later learned that just up the street from his home, the family of victim Alex Sullivan, who had gone to the theater to celebrate his 27th birthday and upcoming wedding anniversary, mourned the loss of their son.
THE JOY OF THE LORD
After praying solemnly for each victim — and for suspect James Holmes, whom police apprehended outside the cinema — the congregation chose to focus not only on the tragedy but on the blessing of new life.
“Our service today isn’t going to be a memorial service,” said worship leader Jason Benoit. “It’s going to celebrate the good things we have in Christ.”
Wishard called it “Christmas in July.”
Amid a chorus of “Hark the Herald Angels Sing” and “Joy to the World,” smiles broke through tears and weary expressions, showing that even in the midst of tragedy, the good news of Christ’s birth can bring joy.
“There is nothing more healing for us than to worship,” Wishard said. “I don’t believe there’s anything greater than praising God. … Some may ask, ‘How in the world do you have joy in a week likes this?’ It’s because this world is not our home.”
Even in the joy of the good news, he knows his congregation and community must grieve the 12 lives lost and countless others affected by that night’s events.
“When God saw so many things in this world, he grieved,” Wishard said. “We have grieved heavily this week, and I believe God’s grieving with us.”
As Davis and the countless others pick up their lives and learn “how to live again,” Wishard said the Southeast body just wants to show the hurting one thing: God is still good.
“We’re going to be in the middle of this for a long time,” he said. “It’s important that we don’t comfort people with ourselves — we must comfort them with God. God’s word lights our path through the darkest and most horrendous times. It can turn even the most horrific event into an opportunity to share his life.
“Something good can come out of something bad.”
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