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Hello Vox residents. I’ve been away for awhile.
I’m very interested in getting involved in doing micro-loans.
Anyone that has some experience in this area and is willing to offer advice or info would be very helpful.
I think this has the potential radically change the lives of many people who have the desire to work their way out of a tough place but just need a chance to try.
I even look to the time when a village will have the resources to support their own Church and Pastor.
My Church is very involved in missions, but I think we need to go further.
The idea of sharing Christ with people and then enabling them to pull themselves out of poverty is very exciting to me.

I ran across this brief article  by A. W. Tozer

 

 

It may shock some people to be told that Christ is not an American. Nor was He a Jew merely. He was born of the seed of Abraham of the line of David, and His mother was a Jewess of the tribe of Judah. Still Christ is vastly more than a Jew. His dearest name for himself was “the Son of man.” He came through the Jewish race, but he came to the human race. He is Everyman’s countryman and Everyman’s contemporary. He is building a kingdom of all nations and tribes and tongues and peoples. He has no favorites, “but in every nation he that fearest him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him.” Let us remember that the gospel is a divine thing. It receives no virtue from any of man’s religions or philosophies. It came down to us out of heaven, a separate thing, like Peter’s sheet, wholly on its own. It is something given of God. It operates in the individual heart wherever that heart may be found. Any form of human government, however lofty, deals with the citizen only as long as he lives. At the graveside it bids him adieu. It may have made his journey a little easier, and, if so, all lovers of the human race will thank God for that. But in the cool earth, slaves and free men lie down together. Then what matter the talk and the turmoil? Who was right and who was wrong in this or that political squabble doesn’t matter to the dead. Judgment and sin and heaven and hell are all that matter then. So, let’s keep cool, and let’s think like Christians. Christ will be standing upright, tall and immortal, after the tumult and the shouting dies and the captains and the kings lie stretched side by side, the “cause” that made them famous forgotten and their whole significance reduced to a paragraph in a history book.

 

 

I was listening to a guy today that I once said “I’ll never listen to this guy,He and I have way different views” (eating my own words has made me fat!). Jay Bakker was the guy and he shared a quote that really hit me ……

  “Take the first step in faith, you don’t have to see the whole staircase,just take the first step”

                                   - Martin Luther King

Hello to any one who might be reading this!
This is the very first time I have ever posted a blog. The fact that I’m 46 years old may have something to do with that.
I have several friends who communicate through this “city” and they encourage me to participate in this way of sharing thoughts and ideas. Sadly I don’t posess the intellect that most of the writers I have read here posess, but I do share their love of our Savior. I feel that I am caught right in the middle of the whole “emergant “,”traditional” church debate. I have the greatest love and respect for several people in both generations( not to say that age has anything to do with it ).I am really confused about the whole debate, mostly, why it even exist! I wonder what could happen if we decided to spend our efforts serving and trying to reach the lost, instead of debating over who is doing “church” right . And I admit that I have done more than my share of debating, but God has really opened my eyes recently to this distraction. I have found myself arguing with a fellow believer (in front of a guy who is lost) about something that has nothing to do with salvation. I would like God to bring me to the point where I know when to speak out and when to stay quite, you know, trust the Holy Spirit to bring conviction where it’s needed without any of my help.
I would , as on older guy, encourage you younger guys to invite the “older” saints to become involved in the ideas you have to reach people and let them see the love that drives you. I, for one,having seen this love in younger men and women have come to a place where I not only trust them, but want to be involded with them.
I have often stated that God doesn’t need a “new” church,He only wants us to be the church He desires
I know I’m rambling like an old man, but I really look forward to sharing thoughts and ideas with you guys, and maybe finding out how all of us fit together in this thing called church

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