Hero...
Who are your heroes ? Whoever they are , they might tell you something about how we see the world and what a hero really is. Some people see a list of heroes as Abraham Lincoln , Terry Fox , Winston Churchill...all people who fit the western mold. They are comfortable names to throw around in a crowd or at any gathering. Here's a hero that all Christians need to revere:
Mikhail Gorbachev...an avowed Communist...At one time head of the Soviet Union; A country that had imprisoned, tortured , and executed millions of believers since it's inception in 1917 and had stated in it's very constitutional adendum that it would be an atheistic state for all of it's formative existence. This man willfully dismantled his own empire and personal power for the cause of freedom to gather, experience national and ethnic self-determination and finally to free millions of people to worship and believe freely in a God his own state had said does not exist. What was his motivation ? How did he see the Jesus we worship ?
"Only Jesus Christ could take a few loaves of bread and feed the thousands ... Only Jesus Christ could solve problems such as these."
- Mikhail Gorbachev
On describing the problems posed to him with the breakup of the 15 republics of the Soviet Union.
Who are your heroes ? Whoever they are , they might tell you something about how we see the world and what a hero really is. Some people see a list of heroes as Abraham Lincoln , Terry Fox , Winston Churchill...all people who fit the western mold. They are comfortable names to throw around in a crowd or at any gathering. Here's a hero that all Christians need to revere:
Mikhail Gorbachev...an avowed Communist...At one time head of the Soviet Union; A country that had imprisoned, tortured , and executed millions of believers since it's inception in 1917 and had stated in it's very constitutional adendum that it would be an atheistic state for all of it's formative existence. This man willfully dismantled his own empire and personal power for the cause of freedom to gather, experience national and ethnic self-determination and finally to free millions of people to worship and believe freely in a God his own state had said does not exist. What was his motivation ? How did he see the Jesus we worship ?
"Only Jesus Christ could take a few loaves of bread and feed the thousands ... Only Jesus Christ could solve problems such as these."
- Mikhail Gorbachev
On describing the problems posed to him with the breakup of the 15 republics of the Soviet Union.
posted by mark at 9:10 PM
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one of my favs
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