It's All Relative

The team is currently on holiday.  We're in Inverness, Scotland.  The five of us are holed up in a Youth Hostel for the next couple nights (we'll be back in Lochalsh Wednesday night).  I'm loving it.  There's something about being in a totally new place and then staying in a place like this...and then being surrounded by new people from all around the world.  It's incredible.

This evening, we were out walking about, and then ended up sitting and talking to a man we had run into.  We met a man named James.  James is in his mid-twenties and is a father to a young girl outside of marriage.  We were able to sit and talk with him for a while and get to know him.  Eventually we began to talk about God.  We talked with him about his story, what he thought about God, heaven, etc. It was fascinating.  I'm quite amazed at the people here.  He doesn't believe in God.  He believes that people who live good lives will go to heaven.  James believes morality is all that matters.  Not only that, but also that morality is relative to the individual.

I'm finding that that is more and more the case here in the UK.  If I can venture a guess, I would say that it's becoming more and more the case around the world, and especially in the US.  I am grieved by that more and more.  This idea of relativism is so far from what is true.  There is a true standard and it is set by the Word.

Be in prayer for James.  Pray for more of the Gospel to be poured into his heart.  Pray for this place, and for the world, pray that truth would go forth and sink into the hearts of people here.


Prayer Requests

1.  Pray for rejuvenation for the team, and also for the family of our mentor.  We're all quite exhausted and needing time to be in rest.

2.  Continue to pray for the team.  We're all growing more comfortable with one another, and the exterior of "always being in a good mood" is gone.  We're at the point where we're starting to see what makes each of us tick.  Things can get ugly.  Pray for us to remain united and then on top of that to deal with everything head on.

3.  Pray for James.

4.  Pray for us to remain rooted and grounded in the Word.