Building Bridges.....

The other day I was driving in a very busy area of the city centre. With parked cars along each side of the narrow road, I was trying to find a spot and people running across the streets making the situation even more stressful. The car in front of me was driving very slowly and I saw she too was searching for a place to park. When she saw a place she stopped. I was pretty close but managed turn the car to drive past her. She then started to reverse without looking around. I had to honk or she would have bumped in to my car, and when I did she started to wave her hands, yelling and pointing and gesturing with her hand at her head as if I was the most stupid driver in the world. Driving past I asked her why on earth she was so angry! She then continued to reverse her car and was very close to hit me in the side. I yelled at her to calm down, but she did not listen and shouted that she would by purpose hit me swearing at me all the time. When I finally parked my car a bit further ...

Very often through history we have seen groups "kidnapping" signs, logos and ideas and in a way make them their own. A good example of this is the Swastika, that the Nazis took and used as their own. The Swastika is a very old religious sign that we still today can see at many Buddhist temples all over Asia, both clockwise and anticlockwise crosses. Another symbol is the upside down christian cross, used by the Satanists as a symbol of their hatred for God, a God they don't believe in ( strange in a way). The origin of this symbol was a Christian symbol and represented the Apostle Peter. The tradition has it that Peter was crucified upside down since he didn't feel worthy of being crucified the same way as Jesus had been. Another symbol that we see so much these days is the rainbow, nowadays used by the Homosexual community. The sign of the rainbow (rainbows are a natural phenomenon) was a sign God gave to mankind that He would never again destroy all flesh ...

Almost 60 years ago, Lewi Pethrus got a question "What does prevent a revival from happening in Sweden" This was his answer: "It is the regrettable apathy that characterizes many Christians. The believers need to wake up. It is the Christians themselves that prevent revival! When we boldly come out of our comfortable sofas to set about soul-winning work for individual and public level with our message turning to the masses, something will happen. We will meet the spiritual yearning that has been built up among the worldly people - then revival becomes a fact. But we retreat, we continue to sleep. If we continue doing this we can no longer bear the Christian name. " wow is it still relevant today? I think so...