Camp Out!

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Greetings & Blessings Faithful Followers of Team Mission Access!  Well we made it through perhaps the most contentious election in America’s history.  Though we have a “winner,” suffice to say that we remain deeply divided as a nation.  I see a definite parallel in Churches today—especially when it comes to our most basic beliefs about how Christianity works, more specifically when it comes to Disability Ministry.

Bob Sorge’s book The Fire of Delayed Answers hits the nail squarely on the head. Having personally wrestled with extreme suffering in his own life, Bob not only identifies the challenge with astonishing clarity, he proposes a brilliant solution to strengthen every Believer’s witness. 

Here’s an entry from Bob’s journal that captures the struggle:

“I relate to Job 9:27-31—it doesn’t seem to matter what I consider doing, there’s always some reason why that isn’t the answer, or why it isn’t sufficient.  If I rest and do nothing, it seems that’s exactly what happens—nothing.  If I wrestle and seek to press into God, I feel like I’m striving.  I’m damned if I do, and damned if I don’t.”[1]

Believers, surmises Sorge, fall in one of two “Camps:” The Quietness Camp, or The Confidence Camp.  These two vastly-divergent Camps are locked in an epic perpetual dance for theological superiority especially when it comes to healing. 

In a nutshell:

“The Quietness Camp emphasizes the necessity of surrender to the sovereignty of God, and the Confidence Camp emphasizes the availability of God’s promises and power to those who will believe.”[2]

Q:  So who’s the “winner”?  Quietness?  Or Confidence?

A:  YES!

Galatians 3:28-29 NASU says “There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.”  Neither is there Quietness nor Confidence.  May we Camp Out in but One Camp where Our Awesome Lord deeply desires our Unity to become One with Him through faith in Jesus Christ. 

In His Accessible Grace,

Linda

[1] Bob Sorge, The Fire of Delayed Answers (Grandview, MO:  Oasis House, 1996).  Digital.

[2] Ibid

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