{"id":4959,"date":"2014-09-03T09:05:49","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T16:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=4959"},"modified":"2014-09-03T09:05:49","modified_gmt":"2014-09-03T16:05:49","slug":"world-bad-news-good-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/?p=4959","title":{"rendered":"WORLD: Bad News, Good News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source: Erich Bridges, International Mission Board<\/a>, August 26, 2014<\/p>\n

The cascade of grim global headlines overwhelmed a friend of mine recently. He announced that he couldn\u2019t take it anymore \u2014 at least until tomorrow.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know why I care,\u201d he wrote. \u201cI don\u2019t know why I bother. I check the news. Bad. All bad. Unless the news is horrible, it\u2019s bad. Why care? Why bother? Why not just play \u2018Angry Birds\u2019 and pretend it doesn\u2019t affect me? It sounds easier.\u201d<\/p>\n

Despite his frustration and discouragement, I know he won\u2019t stop reading, watching, caring, and praying. He\u2019s an intelligent and compassionate young man, for one thing. He\u2019s concerned about world affairs. He makes a point of keeping up with what\u2019s happening and tries to understand it.<\/p>\n

Another young person I know returned recently from a youth mission trip to Amsterdam, the Dutch capital. She and the group arrived there the same week in July that Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur was shot down over Ukraine, killing all 283 passengers and 15 crew. Two-thirds of the passengers were Dutch. People on the streets of Amsterdam were just beginning to experience the shock of the tragedy as the youth team walked through the city and distributed more than 6,000 copies of the Gospel of John.<\/p>\n

Some people they encountered rejected the small gifts of truth. But many accepted it \u2014 many more than the Amsterdam-based Christian worker helping the young people expected \u2014 and they began reading it. Perhaps they were looking for something to hold onto, something to hope in.<\/p>\n

\u00bb Read full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u00bb Read also these articles about our world: World’s Top Church-Destroying Countries<\/a> (Christianity Today) and a report from InContext Ministries about how the influence of various countries is viewed, positively or negatively, by the rest of the world<\/a>. And see this great, concise piece from Asia Harvest, God’s Solution to Terrorism<\/a>. Part one addresses the “real cause of global terrorism.” Look for part two in next month’s Asia Harvest newsletter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: Erich Bridges, International Mission Board, August 26, 2014 The cascade of grim global headlines overwhelmed a friend of mine recently. He announced that he couldn\u2019t take it anymore \u2014 at least until tomorrow. \u201cI don\u2019t know why I care,\u201d he wrote. \u201cI don\u2019t know why I bother. I check the news. Bad. All bad. … Continue reading WORLD: Bad News, Good News<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-briefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4960,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4959\/revisions\/4960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/missionscatalyst.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}