Muffed Opportunity
Theme of the Week: Plugging the Hero Gap
Dutch Sheets
Sunday, December 15, 2002
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Muffed Opportunity
Theme of the Week: Plugging the Hero Gap
Sunday, December 15
Key Bible Verse: "I searched for someone to stand in the gap in the wall so I wouldn't have to destroy the land, but I found no one" (Ezekiel 22:30). Bonus Reading:Matthew 28:18–20
One of the great disasters of history took place in 1271. Nicolo and Matteo Polo (the father and uncle of Marco) were visiting the Kublai Khan, at that time a world ruler over China, India, and all of the East. He was attracted to the story of Christianity as Nicolo and Matteo told it to him and said this to them: "You shall go to your high priest and tell him on my behalf to send me 100 men skilled in your religion, and I shall be baptized. And when I am baptized, all my barons and great men will be baptized and their subjects will receive baptism, too. So there will be more Christians here than there are in your parts." However, nothing was done for about 30 years. Then two or three missionaries were sent—too few and too late.
It staggers the imagination to think the difference it would have made had China become fully Christian in the 13th century and the East had been given to Christ. If God's purpose was to shift the course of history, these men missed the chance. It's my desire that nothing like that happen in our generation.
—Dutch Sheets in God's Timing for Your Life
Adapted from God's Timing in Your Life (Regal, 2001) by permission.
Copyright © 2002 by the author or Christianity Today International/Men of Integrity magazine.
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November/December 2002,Vol. 5,No. 6
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