By God's amazing grace and love the entire team has arrived safely at home. I will be posting more blogs about the trip as time goes on and as I can process everything. Today I kept thinking of a song that captured the intense difference yet similarity in a Sunday morning worship service in two very different culture. It was captured by the song He Reigns.
It's the song of the redeemed
Rising from the
African plainIt's the song of the forgiven
Drowning out the Amazon rain
The song of Asian believers
Filled with God's holy fire
It's every tribe, every tongue, every nation
A love song born of a grateful choir
It's all God's children singing
Glory, glory, hallelujah
He reigns, He reigns
To me its such an awesome concept to think about how in Malawi on Sunday morning it may be a long service, it may have lots of dancing, it may be sitting on a dirt floor but they are still singing that He the one true God reigns. It may be in the suburbs of Chicago, in an hour long service, sitting in comfortable chairs but they are singing the the one true God reigns. I think we often forget how many other believes who look nothing like us, speak different languages, have different worship practices and styles are worshiping the same God.
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