Dr. Jim Garlow is Pastor of Skyline Church in San Diego, California
Chairman of Renewing American Leadership
Author of the new book Encountering Heaven and the Afterlife
On spiritual growth @Skyline Church:
We're interested in high standards. We're trying to give people a model to shoot for in terms of righteous living, in terms of good choices in life.
Let's try to find a way to become, what the Old Testament calls, repair for the broken walls.
Let's try to find a way to become, what the Old Testament calls, repair for the broken walls.
High standards?
I think there are plenty who want the truth of God words....who want to be taught to live like that.
Matt: Dr. Garlow talked about loving those you disagree with. He shared the story of being on a national television interview where the advocate of homosexual rights kept calling him a "liar." Garlow challenged him personally on that after the program and then gave him his card and phone number and asked that they stay in touch.
Later, Garlow decided to get together with him in his office while Jim was in that city. He listened to the man tell his story for 90 minutes.
Garlow said that the hope of the world is our relating to those who don't agree with us on the issues of Scripture. How else, he asks, will they ever come to the truth?
I was reminded that Donald McGavran once penned a book called The Bridges of God. In it he made the strong case that the bridge between God and lost man was the Christian willing to relate with both God and that person. The one with the audacity willing to do that is "the bridge of God."
Matt: Dr. Garlow talked about loving those you disagree with. He shared the story of being on a national television interview where the advocate of homosexual rights kept calling him a "liar." Garlow challenged him personally on that after the program and then gave him his card and phone number and asked that they stay in touch.
Later, Garlow decided to get together with him in his office while Jim was in that city. He listened to the man tell his story for 90 minutes.
Garlow said that the hope of the world is our relating to those who don't agree with us on the issues of Scripture. How else, he asks, will they ever come to the truth?
I was reminded that Donald McGavran once penned a book called The Bridges of God. In it he made the strong case that the bridge between God and lost man was the Christian willing to relate with both God and that person. The one with the audacity willing to do that is "the bridge of God."
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