In thirty-five years of teaching at the university and seminary level, I learned this \u2013 you can\u2019t always tell when a student is learning, nor can you accurately predict their level of future achievement. Some of those I thought would surely fail now serve significant positions of leadership and ministry. Some I thought were \u201ccan\u2019t miss\u201d types, have been disappointing. I wonder what the Lord thought about Peter. The meaning of disciple is \u201clearner.\u201d Did it ever appear to our Lord, the ultimate teacher, that Peter was learning anything; anything that would help him become a success in his calling? And what about Judas? Eugene Petersen wrote, \u201cAmong the apostles, the one absolutely stunning success was Judas, and the one thoroughly groveling failure was Peter. Judas was a success in the ways that most impress us: he was successful both financially and politically . . . and Peter was a failure in ways that we most dread: he was impotent in a crisis and socially inept.\u201d It\u2019s true, you can\u2019t judge a book by its cover, nor can you judge a person by the outer appearance. Jesus saw people not as they were, but as they were becoming, and He gave them \u201cthe right to become . . . (John 1:12).\u201d I want to be like that, don\u2019t you?<\/p>\n
Join me this week in remembering the following global concerns:
\n\u2022 Pray for four church leaders from Texas who will be in Vancouver, Canada this week seeking partnership possibilities with new church starts.
\n\u2022 Pray for the almost 2 million Polish people living in Brazil, with no known church planting efforts to reach them in their language.
\n\u2022 Pray for missionary kids who begin school this week, many of them in boarding schools, away from parents and for missionary parents who home-school their children.
\n\u2022 Continue to pray for missionaries who serve in West African areas where Ebola is present.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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