October 21, 2005
Here's our newest "YOU KNOW YOU'RE NOT IN AMERICAN WHEN..." line,
You know you're not in America, when the government gives alcoholic wine to 20 year-old young people (as a "gift"), and the young people give the wine to the church...
They say Kinmen is the "happiest place" in Taiwan. Whether that is because of all the Kinmen wine, I don't really know. But I do know that Kinmen is a place full of people that God loves!
This morning I was struck by what Paul said about his calling in Ephesians 3:7-8, and 20. "Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power. Unto me, who am the least all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach....(7-8) ...according to the power that worketh in us." (20)
God's grace is certainly the only thing that can sustain me in being a disciple, a witness, and even an English teacher. It's by God's grace that I have these opportunities and I can only plead for His grace to be the power working in me. I am so grateful for God's grace!
~Lucas Stewart, Kinmen
