Laurie and I are attending the Global HIV/AIDs Summit at Saddleback. I’ll be blogging some thots here over the next few days.

Opening Session Thoughts: Injustice and the HIV/AIDs Crisis
Beware of the reality that injustice, AIDs, poverty easily become tolerable disasters.
Alexander Solzenitzen warned of tolerable disasters of bearable proportions.
The first step to bringing the Kingdom to “remote, far away, easily forgotten” disasters is for God’s people to “cross the road and get close” to needs–like the Good Samaritan.
(Why is it that the Pharisees always sent lawyers — experts in the law — to question Jesus? Because lawyers think they are smarter than God.)

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In China this story is told. A river flows through a village, in it many babies had been thrown. The villagers worked hard to save some of the babies but they couldn’t get to them all. Many babies died.
One man asked another, “Where are these babies coming from?”
“Oh,” the other man said, “there is a strong man up on the hill. He is throwing the babies into the river.”
“What can we do then?”
“Someone must wrestle down the Strong Man.”