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Posted by barrykind (Member # 35) on :

The Church The Bible Built
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Many years ago the Reverend Robert Burris worked for four and one-half
years as a missionary in South China. As part of his ministry he
journeyed into the mountains carrying copies of the Scriptures in
Chinese for distribution. In this way, although he could not speak
fluent Chinese, the people were given
God's word.

Toward the end of his term Mr. Burris and three companions began a 180-
mile journey with 4,000 copies of the Chinese
New Testament. In the first ten days about half of these New
Testaments had been distributed. Then, in the remote
countryside, they were stopped by five armed bandits who too
everything--money, clothing, shoes--- and the remaining 2,000 copies of
the New Testament. Mr. Burris and friends
limped home barefooted in their shirts and trousers, glad to be alive.

Approximately twenty-five years later when Mr. Burris was the pastor of
a church in Ohio, he and his wife attended a
lecture with slides presented by a missionary to South China. Among
the
slides shown was a picture of the very place in which he had been
robbed
by the bandits. "Now," the missionary said, "we come to the most
important slide in my
collection.

"I call it `The Miracle Church." The picture on the screen showed a
large rough empty building. "This is The Miracle Church," the
missionary continued, "because no one knows
who started it, or how every Sunday, four hundred people attend, each
with a copy of The New Testament in Chinese.

"No one knows where they got the New Testaments. So far as is known,
no missionary or distributor ever went into these mountains which are
infested with bandits and robbers. Yet today, the church is there and
the people have God's Word".

Mr. Burris smiled in gratitude. God's Word, taken from him that day
by bandits had been building it's own church in China
for twenty-five years.
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Posted by becauseHElives (Member # 87) on :

Thanks Barry, it is the stories like that, that keep me going. Sometimes it seems like everything you are doing is for nothing, but I forget that I am walking by faith.

We do not walk by sight, but by faith.

What I see make no difference, only that I trust I am doing His will makes any difference.

"Just pray that it's blessed and Yahweh will take care of the rest" Keith Green