Cool Story

I was looking through my notes on my Blackberry the other day and realized that I had never shared this cool story with you. I met a pastor in Soroti that has been taking some classes that my friend has been teaching. I think he held the title of bishop of one of the churches. I'm not sure what that really means, but he was an older gentleman who had lived as a Christian during Idi Amin's time.

He shared several stories with us, but my favorite was the one in which he was pastoring a church and the army soldiers at the time were ordered to arrest all the Christians. So they soldiers came into the church and arrested everyone there. Fortunately for this pastor, he was not at the church at the time. He was spared this arrest, or was he?

When he found out that the whole church had been arrested by the army, he gave instructions to his wife to return to the village for her own protection. Then he went to where the congregation was being held and gave himself up to the army. He told them that he was among those group of Christians that they arrested. One of the soldiers told his leader that he too was a Christian and didn't agree with the order to arrest Christians. He refused to be the one to arrest this pastor. In the end, the army officer released the whole church. What an amazing testimony!

I just thought to myself, "Would I do that? Would I turn myself in to be arrested like he did?" I'm not sure I would, but the faith of the people here in Uganda often amazes me. I wish I had their faith...actually I'm working on that. Every day I pray for more faith so I can fulfill the promises that God has to use me wherever I am to preach the word, to heal, to cast out demons or whatever God wants to do through me.