Clutching a Bible in one hand and a walking stick in the other, Pastor Stephen Lenku Tipatet traverses the plains of Kajiado County, fighting female circumcision and propounding on the Christian gospel.
The Rev. Franklin Graham recently spoke at a revival event in Myanmar where thousands of people responded to the message and gave their lives to Christ.
This impulse to avoid pain and suffering is normal and logical for human beings. The gospel, however, often turns what we view as normal and logical directly on its head.
There are those in our world today, like Zacchaeus, who deserve judgment, but when we encounter a story like that of Jesus and Zacchaeus, we realize we, too, deserve judgment and did not deserve grace.