Culture Making Part II--- 'Three Cups of Tea'

Thanks Ben for sharing this. I will try to find it in Singapore :)

This book has been on my list for some time now. Time to hop to it, I guess. Of course, I will have to put down the book I am reading now, which is called New Testament History, A Narrative Account by BW the III. :)

I am deeply impressed of late of just how much compassion I see from those who are unbelievers. That does not mean that believers are not compassionate, just that God can and will use anyone. I think, that we who are believers should let our hearts be touched and our lives be motivated. If those who do not even know Jesus are used so mightily, why not those of us who love Him? Sometimes, I'm convinced, we're too busy deciding who is in and who is out - who deserves welfare and who does not - who should be helping themselves, etc., who is running for election, blah, blah, blah...that we aren't even open to how and where God might use us.

Ben,

Thanks for this. I read "Three Cups of Tea" last summer and it seemed to confirm that my calling as a Christian is to teach in some capacity (although what, specifically, I still don't know). The idea of us as Christians willingly taking on good-will education assignments (Teach for America, etc) is one that I hadn't even considered, but now it makes so much sense. We can really make a difference in the next generation by meeting them where they are: the schools, athletic fields, rehearsal rooms, and other places where they are educated and prepared to be functioning adults.

I fully agree with you, Holly. We spend so much dang time debating all this external stuff that we miss the point that Wesley so poigniantly made: "In essentials, unity. In nonessentials, liberty. In all things, charity". I think some seekers have a better grasp of that last point than we often do, and this is to our shame. We need to understand that while we go on in endless debates, all we're doing is trying to snuff each other's lights, when a dark world truly needs us. Thanks for saying that.

PS to Ben:

Several years ago, I visited Garrett as a potential student, and had a chance to sit under KK Yeo for a class session. What a remarkable teacher he is, and even though I don't remember a word of that lecture, I do remember being drawn into the Word through his work. Just another example of the incredible difference teachers make! :)

@andrewbourne - you're not alone, seems our Ben prefers comments on his blog to be only those he 100% agrees with

Gentlemen... it is not appropriate to intrude into a discussion on a given subject by idly posting comments on another subject that is irrelevant to the post and the subject at hand! I regularly delete or disregard such rude behavior regardless of topic. This is rather like bursting into someone's classroom and saying--- NOW lets talk about X, when in fact Y was the subject of the class.

If you want to discuss a subject that is not the one at hand, then just kindly send me an email and we can have a discussion. I'm not hard to find on the internet.

Best,

BW3