What The Well is really about

Christ's call is to feed the hungry, not the full; to save the lost, not the stiff-necked; not to call the scoffers, but sinners to repentance; not to build and furnish comfortable chapels, churches, and cathedrals at home in which to rock Christian professors to sleep by means of clever essays, stereotyped prayers and artistic musical performances, but to raise living churches of souls among the destitute, to capture men from the devil's clutches and snatch them from the very jaws of hell, to enlist and train them for Jesus, and make them into an Almighty Army of God. But this can only be accomplished by a red-hot, unconventional, unfettered Holy Ghost religion, where neither Church nor State, neither man nor traditions are worshipped or preached, but only Christ and Him crucified. Not to confess Christ by fancy collars, church steeples or rich embroidered altar-cloths, but by reckless sacrifice and heroism in the foremost trenches...   

C.T. Studd (emphasis mine)

it's not just about rescuing sex workers or preventing kids from getting started.  That's actually only the first step.

Not long after I felt God saying to come here, I heard the song "Did You Feel the Mountains Tremble" for the first time, at Urbana 2000.  Screaming it as loud as I could along with 18,000 others, I had something of a vision, of former bar girls as "dancers who dance upon injustice".  I still have that vision, only now the dancers have names and faces.  They're still getting freed up, still learning that they can dance, but they're coming along.

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Michaela
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Re: What The Well is really about
Reply #1 on : Sun July 19, 2009, 11:05:19

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thanks.