If you want a suggestion for summer reading, how about Jeremiah or Ezekiel? If quite a lot of prophecy is too much, how about a shorter narrative like Esther or Daniel? I’m thinking, with all that is going on in the world and all that may happen in the Church of England this year, more familiarity with these great books of the Bible would be good.
Mind you, prophecy is not always (often?) easy reading. Remember the King of Israel’s greeting of the first of the great prophets, Elijah; ‘Is it you, you troubler of Israel?’ – to which the Lord puts into Elijah’s mouth these brilliant words: ‘I have not troubled Israel, but you have, and your father’s house, because you have forsaken the commandments of the Lord’ (1 Kings 18:17).
What if, among the churches of Russia, there were some prophets who had the courage to go before the President and declare how the commandments of the Lord are being treated with contempt every day in this unjust and terrible war in Ukraine? Where are the Jeremiahs and Ezekiels who will be the sentinels and call the people of God not to follow the Baals or gods of the land, but offer godly worship reflected in godly living?
Compelled to resist: 5,000+ already – and you?
I have recently returned from Kigali, Rwanda, and the fourth GAFCON conference (Global Anglicans from over 50 countries coming together …