Exloring Life Eternal

The major international press has not noticed what has been happening in Rio city just lately. According to the media here, an army base was invaded by bandits late last week and some guns were stolen. In retaliation, and reportedly in an attempt to recover the weapons, the army has surrounded and invaded about ten of the major slums in Rio, with 1500 troops, tanks, armoured cars and helicopters, with another 1200 troops on standby. An apparenty innocent sixteen-year old boy was killed yesterday during one of these operations. (To put this operation, which is the largest in Rio in ten years, in perspective, the international peace keeping force in Haiti, which Brazil leads, has a total force of only 1200 troops). Fortunately, this is all happening a couple of hours drive away from us, although we should be visiting Rio city on Friday.
- from a Christian Worker (P.C. in Brazil near Rio de Janero)

PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF CHRIST JESUS TO REIGN

Man's ways of living religiously with the Biblical "support" that folks try to use:

1. LAW = Performance-based force
Do this & live!!
(This is a quote describing how to prosper materially.)
2. FLESH = Personality-based feeling
I do not belong ...
I do not need you ...
There is no God ...
(All three of these are quotations of sinful ways of thinking.)

God's way to give life:
3. GRACE = Promise-based faith.
Jesus is Lord
(This is based upon the reality of the cross & the resurrection.)

Whom shall you choose? Here are the options:
- Ancestral "gods" & their "hallowed" traditions,
- Local "gods" & their "freedom,"
OR
- The Lord God Almighty, who desires to be your Father & Friend.