I must pass along the compliment to those who showed me this simple truth. It is not a Chaz original!
Ya know... if it werent for the hell I went through... pain, divorce, drugs, booze.... I really do not know if/how I would have discovered the principles that make my life so much more manageable and serene like it is today.
Which brings me to another gem of truth that I heard and take to heart...
"A year of pain will teach you far more than a lifetime of comfort".
I wonder if this is not one of the universal principles as to why we see church growth and miracles more frequently in the third world than we do in comfortable North America?
I wonder if this is not in part why, for example, Pastor Sergio Solorzano has a church of thousands attend at a soccer stadium in San Salvador when many of our north american churches cant hold a congregation together.
I wonder if this kind of principle is why marriages tend to stay together in churches like this yet in N. America 50% of "Christian" marriages fail. I wonder if this principle is not in part to do with the miracles of healings and changed lives that are so commonplace in churches like pastor Sergio's? And this is only one example.
I wonder if they HAVE TO believe for what they need in their lives or suffer terrible consequences. Whereas we here in north america are cared for even if we never work, never believe, never get out of bed?
