CQOD: 10/29/05 -- Oden: strength through adversity

Christian Quotation of the Day

October 29, 2005

Commemoration of James Hannington, Bishop of Eastern Equatorial Africa, Martyr in Uganda, 1885

Meditation:
    For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
    -- 2 Corinthians 4:17,18 (KJV)

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Quotation:
    In America, it is hard to distinguish Christianity from its social and cultural setting. It blends into the scenery. Many people assume that we live in a “Christian society.” Obviously, the Christian church has no strong witness against society. In [a communist country], the situation is exactly the opposite. Christians there live under a political regime which makes a point of distinguishing itself from all religion, and which is grounded philosophically on atheism and materialism. The Church lives in a hostile social order. The result is that the weak Christians are weeded out, and the strong Christians are tremendously strengthened by adversity.
    ... Thomas C. Oden (b.1931) in Christian Advocate

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Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, send Your Spirit to strengthen the church.

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