After almost four month of lecture phase we have finished the lecture phase of the Bible School for the Nations. It always amazes me how our students experience deep personal transformation and learn to love deeper - whether it is their love for God or for others while they study the whole Bible.
The biggest deal for them is usually understanding that all people have infinite value simply because God made them with a wonderful design and purpose. If this simple truth would be embraced around the world it would end human trafficking, gendercide, and many other problems we face today.
Another huge revelation usually is that people are not the problem (see overpopulation) but that people carry in them the ability to create something out of nothing and turn a whole nation`s economics around - like George Washington Carver, the man who invented peanut butter.
As I am writing this I am sitting in a friend`s living room in Japan - the nation with the largest child pornography industry and highest suicide rate in the world. The Japanese are an amazing people. Their loyalty to their friends goes so deep that they would take a bullet at any time for their friends. They operate in accordance to the Bushido code which I still don`t nearly understand enough about but have committed to study. If the Japanese committed not to a religion but to the person of Jesus Christ their nation would look very different. Injustices against women and children would be part of the past and an army determined to bring life and healing to people would arise.
All this is connected to what we are doing in Madison when we raise up people that love God with all their heart and love others with the same undying love. This is why I do what I do and will continue to invest my life in people knowing the Bible and the God of the Bible.
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