Starting the NCPC Tuesday AM men's group

We started our Tuesday morning men's group this morning.  It was something that many of the men of our congregation wanted to do but inertia and other equally important projects have kept us from it for the past year or so that we have been a congregation.  A few weeks ago I was motivated by the amazing progress that the Womens' groups have made in our congregation at getting organized and going and doing, so I volunteered to lead the Men's Tuesday morning group just to get it off the ground.

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We are studying Chuck Holton's amazing book, Bullet Proof.  This morning we did the preface and the first chapter and ended up talking the most about Jim Elliot's death in Amazonia and the amazing effect it had on evangelization in Equador.  Holton characterized it, "If Jim Elliot had lived to be one hundred, he would not have had the same effect..."  Our pastor mentioned Elliot's famous quote, "He is no fool that would give up what he cannot keep in order to gain what he cannot lose."  And another of our brothers mentioned this morning that it seems that the real hero, the real warrior in this case, was Elliot's wife, who chose to stay with the Auca, demonstrating the forgiveness and the different lifestyle that the Indians could have, leading them to Christianity almost in their entirety.

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In any case, if you haven't read Chuck Holton's Bullet Proof or if you haven't watched the movie, End of the Spear, I highly recommend both.  Both are truly remarkable and excellent.