Daily Archive for February 10th, 2006

A more down to Earth post!

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Graeme
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Patrik & Hanna Olterman are our new Youth Leaders here in Latvia and they have not had a very good time of it over the first few weeks of their life in Latvia. Car break ins, bad housing, record low temperatures and sickness have been the order of the day. Today they moved into the flat that will be their home while they are here only to find some of their furniture has been damaged during the time it has been in storage.

We all know this is a time of spiritual attack as their self proclaimed, God-given goal is to make the name of Jesus famous here in Latvia.

If anyone does read this blog I’d just ask for you to pray for them over the coming weeks as they settle into their new life. They have a wonderful daughter, Angelina (almost 2), and another baby due in May.

What type of Army part 2?

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Graeme
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Yesterday’s posts reminded me of some thoughts about TSA that I had a few weeks ago. I can’t remember now what set my thought process off, but I suspect that it was a letter in the Salvationist as that’s often the case. Whatever it was I seem to put across a pretty narrow view of what TSA is.

Any I recall thinking that the view put across didn’t describe any army in the world, so why should it describe ours. This led me to think about the way a military army is made up. It is full of various different types of regiment: Infantry, Artillery, Cavalry, Logistics etc. However, for many years our version of TSA, at least in the UK, was full dominated by only one type of unit (and that might not have even been a fighting unit!)

In actual fact there should be room in our Army for a variety of different units, all fighting in different ways, but all fighting for the same cause and all fighting as the best trained soldiers in the Army of God.

Instead we in the West have for decades been dominated by a mentality which to many extents was more of a spiritual Mess Hall than a true unit of an Army. Instead of taking the battle out to the frontline or into enemy territory we have sat safely in our camps enjoying an apparent peacetime, whilst allowing our Army to diminish. Many good soldiers have ‘retired’ and the young squaddies coming through have not been very well trained.

In many places there is dissatisfaction with this status quo and I praise the Lord that this is so. Lets start recruiting new recruits for all our different types of units and push on with the battle!