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Is Life Worth Living Before Death?

Dwelling in the Holy Land has become a curse for many of its inhabitants.

Botrus Mansour | posted 1/07/2008 08:51AM

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Christianity Today's coverage of Israel and the Middle East's traditional Christian communities includes:

Suffocating the Faithful | Will the last Mideast church leader be sure to turn off the lights? (December 17, 2007)

What Iraq's Christians Need | Two strategies to build up the church in the war-weary nation. A Christianity Today editorial. (January 22, 2007)

Fleeing Nineveh | Threatened by persistent violence, Assyrian Christians in Iraq want to govern themselves. (December, 18, 2006)

Daring to Dream Again | Chaldean Christians connect with other believers. (August 1, 2003)

Reflections from a Messianic Jew in Israel | When questions are too hard to answer, we must still be about our Father's business. (August 31, 2006)

The Christian Message in Lebanon | Journalist Rami Khouri on how the church can foster peace in a troubled region. (August 24, 2007)

A Precarious Calm | A year after the July 2006 war, Lebanon's Christians face a murky future. (June 25, 2007)

The Colors of Lebanon | What would real peace mean? (February 7, 2007)

The 'Jesus Manifesto' for Lebanon | Rebuilding the soul of a shattered nation on the brink of civil war. (February 7, 2007)

Orthodox Unity … | Autonomous Orthodoxy isn't an oxymoron. It's the fulfillment of a different kind of American dream. (July 1, 2004)

Q&A: Karekin II | The leader of the Armenian Apostolic Church, Karekin II visited the U.S. in October to support a resolution condemning Turkey's 1915-1917 Armenian genocide. (November 26, 2007)

Death Watch | One of the world's earliest Christian cultures totters on the edge of extinction. (January 1, 2003)

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Ephrem Hagos

Posted: January 10, 2008 8:27 AM

There is no basis whatsoever in the teaching of Jesus Christ for the "Jerusalem effect" on fervent Christian pilgrims. By the standard of Jesus' teaching, it is far from real. It is all imagined! What else do the following words mean? --"The time will come when people will not worship the Father either on this mountain (in Samaria) or in Jerusalem. The time is coming and is already here when by the power of God's Spirit people will worship the Father as He really is offering Him the true worship that He wants. God is Spirit and only by the power of His Spirit can people worship Him as He really is" (John 4: 23-24). Thanks God that for true worship, one place is as good as any!

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