Bridget Manley:
"But if you know the Bible like Len Browning does, you know the significance of this place.
It’s a reminder of the Jewish temple destroyed nearly two millennia ago. The temple housed the Holy of Holies, which is believed to be the place where God himself dwelled.
Seeing the Wailing Wall touched Len in a way he didn’t expect.
“There was a profound, overwhelming sense of God in that place,” said Len, lead pastor at The Journey at First Baptist in Craig. “It was indescribable. … It was significantly more than I had anticipated.”
He was among 15 other pastors and their wives who embarked on a weeklong sojourn in Israel in early February. The tour was designed to familiarize them with the Holy Land, yet what Len took away from the journey cannot be summarized in any itinerary.
He was more than a tourist. He was a pilgrim, walking amid the ruins where his faith was born.
“And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.” — Genesis 6:5
Before Len embarked on the tour, he spent a few days in New York City, intending to just poke around like tourists do.
Instead, he found himself confronted with reminders of the worst in human nature.
He saw Ground Zero, a gaping void in the city skyline marking a scene of carnage and loss during the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
He saw Ellis Island and thought of the cruelty and indifference that made up the darker side of the Americans experience.
He was “overwhelmed with the sense of the depravity of man,” he said. “… It was just an overwhelming sense of what we’re capable of as human beings.”....." (Read more? Click title)
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