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We were in India. Person after person needing healing, needing to get back to the fields, needing new strength of soul to carry on, needing hope on their journey of life. We shared about the love of God, that the problems coming against them were not of God, never had been and never would be. We shared that wholeness could be theirs, that healing and new strength is found as we agree to God’s good heart for ourselves and others. And, together, we said ‘yes’ to God’s good heart, and together, we celebrated.

We were in Africa, joining small church gatherings of what would become some 200 village churches over 4 years time. Pastor after pastor welcoming and glad to share their congregation with me. While diverse from place to place and country to country one thing remains the same as those very first churches – pastors repeatedly beseeching God to forgive them. We were astounded, and dismayed. Imagine that you represent God to your community and you do not know that you are forgiven?! The work we do? We share forgiveness. It is a done deal accomplished by Jesus more than 2000 years ago. We are a forgiven people. Out of this, pastors are no longer ministering condemnation and shame, they now minister strength and hope.

“THEREFORE ENCOURAGE ONE ANOTHER AND BUILD ONE ANOTHER UP, JUST AS YOU ARE DOING.” 1 Thessalonians 5:11

We were in the Philippines. Gathering at church after church, in out of the way places where foreigners have never been before. Here we celebrated, here we ate together, here we worshipped. We shared that it is not God who turns his back on us or holds things between him and us, but that it is us who do this. We hold things between us and God. We carry regrets and failures and condemnations as secrets in our pockets, heavy ugly rocks that weigh us down – some of us have whole sacks of rocks on our backs. We shared that God has been waiting for us to come to the end of ourselves, to put down our self-effort, our contrived moralities, our trying harder, and our good enough. Once we do this, the Lord’s spirit swoops in to wash us, to massage our wounds, to touch our scars, to make us new. This is what we do together – we become new. We agree to healing and to wholeness from the inside out. We stop trying so hard. Because God loves us, cherishes us, sings over us, heals us, and woos us to beauty and life in Christ.

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