How Do You Kill 11 Million People?
Categories: Church of Christ Bulletin Articles
While scanning Twitter postings this morning, I read the above titled headline from Laura Hodges Poole. Ms. Poole is a freelance writer with almost three dozen articles, devotions, and short stories in publication. On her blog, “A Word of Encouragement,” Ms. Poole provides her readers with a review of an above titled book authored by Andy Andrews, an internationally known speaker and novelist whose combined works have sold millions of copies worldwide.
Among the insight the author gives, he challenges the reader with the following questions:
1) Why do the ages of our world’s greatest civilizations average around two hundred years?
2) Why do these civilizations all seem to follow the same identifiable sequence — from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to complacency, from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependence, and finally from dependence back into bondage?
3) How do atrocities in history correlate to life in the 21st century? Are we doomed to repeat past mistakes by not learning from them?
Ms. Poole answers the last question posed in #3 by stating, “Certain mileposts would indicate so.”
Edmund Burke, Irish statesman, author, orator, political theorist and philosopher, once made this statement:
“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil, is that good men do nothing” (source).
In light of the above quote, what are we as Christians doing to let our light (godly influence) shine in a dark world of immorality, so that evil will not triumph? (Matthew 5:14-16; cf. Philippians 2:14-16).
Let’s seriously think about it! And then if we’re not already doing so, take any necessary action.