BBC News 24 and others dedicate themselves to getting the news out. I prefer radio news because the news isn't controlled by pictures, but they too (more sucessfully in my opinion) are all about getting the news out. The Letter to Timothy which is out fun for this weekend, doesn't use radio towers and digital highways. It suggests prayer. But when you read it it is prayer so we can all live peaceful lives without the distraction of oppression and becoming lion food, so that they can preach the good news like there is nothin else to live for.
Do you have a problem with prayer? I do! I can't make my mind up about it: does it really cure all? If it did then why isn't it used more often and why does it take such counter-rational perseverance. I sometimes imagine people imagine answers to prayers or of coincidence allows a particular prayer to be answered then suddenly all the others that never got answered are forgotten.
But, to counter that, Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Jews, Bhuddits, Zionists, Radicalised, Conservatives, and even some liberals have been doing it for millenia. It's better for you according to life-style surveys. You don't get many thousands of years prayer if it doesn't actually work.
It's not a pill perhaps, but it is something, but just what exactly?
Thoughts? Hymns? But please, please, please don't suggest, 'What a friend we hav in Jesus' because let me state that personally, that I just don't beleive the shallow, easy faith, theology that everything would have been fine with the world if only we had taken it all to Jesus in prayer. Like generations of the human race haven't done that with Ethiopia, Black Death, Northern Ireland, Hitler, Apartheid... need I go on?
1-3The first thing I want you to do is pray. Pray every way you know how, for everyone you know. Pray especially for rulers and their governments to rule well so we can be quietly about our business of living simply, in humble contemplation. This is the way our Savior God wants us to live.
4-7He wants not only us but everyone saved, you know, everyone to get to know the truth we've learned: that there's one God and only one, and one Priest-Mediator between God and us—Jesus, who offered himself in exchange for everyone held captive by sin, to set them all free. Eventually the news is going to get out. This and this only has been my appointed work: getting this news to those who have never heard of God, and explaining how it works by simple faith and plain truth.
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