This wonderful story has an interesting complexity. Can you see how the same events are seen by the kings on the one hand and the servant girl and Elisha on the other?
Story One: Kings and military. Aram, or Syria, shared a border with Israel, and the two countries had been at war.
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A girl is just a girl is the attitude in much of the world, especially the developing world, that is the majority world, which is why more than 70 million girls around the globe are out of school.
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From the beginning, the spread of the faith came at God’s initiative, and although the church leaders have received the gift of the Holy Spirit, the signs of God’s leading precede and exceed their plans. Just as was the case at the cross, it is clearly evident that as the faith spreads, the work of the gospel remains God’s work.
Read More ordinary people, gentiles, kingdom, Holy SpiritIt is easy to fall into the trap of seeing the ordinary activities of life as somehow less “spiritual” and thus less important than those activities where we worship God, pray and study our Bibles. There is no hint of that in these verses from Paul’s letter to Timothy.
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