A disturbing warning
By Jeff Fountain - Posted at Evangelical Focus: Uncertainty is no excuse for paralysis. The biblical alternative to complacency is watchfulness; the alternative to fear is faithfulness. Many British Christians had their comfort zones disturbed recently when Pete Greig, founder of the 24-7 Prayer movement, sounded the alarm: ‘Prepare for war’. Speaking at the Wildfires Festival in August he described being impressed in his thoughts one day by those three ominous words. None of us like hearing that sort of warning. We’d rather not think about a scenario where our comfortable world gets turned upside down, where the future becomes unpredictable and where lives, perhaps those of loved ones, even ourselves, are threatened. We’d rather dismiss such talk as the rantings of disreputable weirdos – not someone with the global standing of a Pete Greig. Eight years ago I found myself suppressing such thoughts while standing in Maidan, Independence Square, in the heart of Kyiv. "Far from bei...
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