Recent blog posts
- Making Mistakes
- Being a friend of God
- The Necessity of the Word of God and External Action
- Can a privatized spirituality change the world?
- Defeat the Gospel
- The neglect of the saints
- Which Gospel determines what we do
- What kind of people does our gospel naturally create? Continued
- How did the church make its mark?
- The thin veil
About Bill Hull
Bill Hull’s passion has been to help the church return to its disciple making roots and he considers himself a discipleship evangelist. This God-given desire has manifested itself in twenty years of pastoral service and the authorship of ten books. His first book, Jesus Christ Disciplemaker, is celebrating 20 years with a new edition. The Disciple Making Pastor and the Disciple Making Church are two successive books which make up his popular disciple making trilogy. These books have provided the church with a new paradigm for disciple making.
Syndicate
I too was saddend by Tim Russerts passing. I am also troubled by the premise that everyone that dies is at the hand of God. I have had this discussion with my wife on several occassions, but I have no real answers.
If I chose to take my life right now, would people say that it was God that took my life or would it be the free will I have been given? If God will decide when he wants me, then should I no longer use caution in my daily life when driving, crossing the street, or any activity that could put my life in peril? After all nothing bad is going to happen to me if God doesn't want me right now.
I feel that when a life is lost and I hear people say "God must have needed them for something bigger," or any other response similiar to that, it's just a way for people to cope with that loss. It's their way of attaching some meaning to why that person died.
Saying it was at the hand of God is too simplistic for me, but I am open to different opinions on this topic.