"All of history is moving toward one great goal, the
white-hot worship of God and his Son among all the peoples of the
earth. Missions exists because worship doesn't. Worship is ultimate,
not missions, because God is ultimate, not man.... When this age is
over, and the countless millions of the redeemed fall on their faces
before the throne of God, missions will be no more. It is a
temporary necessity. But worship abides forever."
- John Piper
Saturday, June 20, 2009
The President (finally) sends a message of support for the beleaguered citizens of Iran to their brutal government. It took a while, but I'm glad he has come out with this:
The Iranian government must understand that the world is watching. We mourn each and every innocent life that is lost. We call on the Iranian government to stop all violent and unjust actions against its own people. The universal rights to assembly and free speech must be respected, and the United States stands with all who seek to exercise those rights.
As I said in Cairo, suppressing ideas never succeeds in making them go away. The Iranian people will ultimately judge the actions of their own government. If the Iranian government seeks the respect of the international community, it must respect the dignity of its own people and govern through consent, not coercion.
Martin Luther King once said - "The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." I believe that. The international community believes that. And right now, we are bearing witness to the Iranian peoples’ belief in that truth, and we will continue to bear witness.
