I just got through reading a very good book by Bill Bright
and Ted Dekker: Blessed Child.
To summarize, the book is about a young orphan boy raised in an
Ethiopian monastery who escapes with an American Peace Corp member and a Canadian
Red Cross nurse. As the boy, who is 10
years old, sees the hurting and sick members of US society, he begins to pray
for them – and they get heal. So, being
America, the boy’s new guardian, an Orthodoxy Christian priest, puts him on
stage and charges folks to attend the ‘healing services’.
This plot raises some very good questions about
Christianity: do miracles still happen?
Are the miracles from God or the devil? Why are some folks healed but
others aren’t? What’s more important –
the healing of a disease or the changing of a heart?
At the beginning, you see all the different branches of
Christianity (Protestant, Catholic & Orthodoxy) fighting among each other
trying to decide whose power is working through the boy. At the end, when God
breaks the heart of the nation, they drop their petty differenance and start
working together.
Overall the book does a good job at getting the reader to
think about what God could do if more believers walked in the Kingdom of God instead
of getting choked out by the cares of the world. My only complaint is that the
authors paint the Orthodoxy Church as the bad guys why allowing the Protestant
& Catholics to play the good guys… =/
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