Pastor Tom Hatley of Immanuel Baptist Church in Rogers invited me to speak to about 30 pastors who gathered at his church on Monday morning. I told them how concerned I have become about what I call the “winsome” church movement.
Indonesian Churches Burned. Indian Pastor Brutally Attacked. Iranian Church Leaders Arrested. Uzbekistan Baptists Fined. China Church Leader Imprisoned. Moroccan Christians Arrested.
When our associate pastor announced last Sunday that some of us might live next door to some of these people in Heaven, I thought, “I don’t even come close to qualifying for that neighborhood.”
Last Friday, a rather significant event happened that garnered relatively little media attention: White Officials sat down with representatives from an atheist group called Secular Coalition for America (http://www.secular.org/about/main).