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CRISIS

Where did Americans turn in the wake of the 9-11 crisis? Christian book stores reported they experienced an increase in Bible sales of 28%, but Video rental stores said they saw a 30% increase in DVD & Video rentals the week of the attack.

There is nothing wrong with those who found a diversion from the crisis in entertainment. But there is something very right with those who found comfort from God's word.

—REV Magazine, January/February 2002, 82 Illustration by Jim L. Wilson

John 14:1 NASB "Let not your heart be troubled; believe in God, believe also in Me."

CRISIS/SURVIVAL/TRUST

There is probably always a note of tension in the air for a Christian Church in Pakistan, but after the events of 9-11 and the subsequent military action of the United States that followed, the tension has got to be thick. And you'd think that in the midst of that tension, that Christians would lay low, and not attend church as often, but that hasn't occurred. At least not at St. Thomas Anglican Church in Islamabad, Pakistan.

"It is easy to say as a nation, be it America or anyone else, 'In God We Trust.' But it is another to mean it all the time, in everything we do." The Rev. Christopher Edgar, of St. Thomas said. "We must trust in God, no matter what happened on Sept. 11. We trust in God —no matter what."

Edgar says he is confident that his congregation, and other Pakistani Churches, will survive this current crisis.

"God is there in the times that are fair and the times that are turbulent," he offered. "We are very thankful for that, for it is times like these that we most rely on him to see us through."

—http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,36097,00.html Illustration by Jim L. Wilson

CRISIS

In Measure What Matters Most, John Doerr writes “Andy Grove was accustomed to having the last word, so let’s give it to him here. ‘Bad companies,’ Andy wrote, ‘are destroyed by crisis. Good companies survive them. Great companies are improved by them.’

—Measure What Matters Most, 46.

James 1:2–4 (CSB)

Consider it a great joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you experience various trials, because you know that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its full effect, so that you may be mature and complete, lacking nothing.