More About EQ

I was interrupted while typing the last post. We are here in a Moscow hotel and Steve and Galina returned from a short trip so we had some discussing to take care of and that ended my blogging.

The need for EQ in this nation cannot be overestimated. You may remember that the Communist Party strictly forbade the Church from educating its members in piety, love, kindness and compassion. In fact, the Law of 1929 was a direct attack on the core values of human caring as set forth in the Bible and God's family for the past 4,000 years.



In an earlier post I mentioned that in 1999 Mr. Gorbachev sent his Ambassador to Norway to the Norwegian Bible Society to ask for a favor. He asked that they print and distribute free several hundred thousand Bibles in Russian. "Why" they asked the Ambassador. "Because we have found that the Bible's message is critically important to the development of caring among the people. As a result of Atheism's worship of no-god, all that is lovely and beautiful was also killed.



The wonderful pastors and lay Christians who have graduated from our training are bright and beautiful light houses of love, sensitivity and compassion in a country devastated by evil for 70 years. Pastor Anatoly, seen here with Steve and Anya planning the retreat, has preached, taught and modeled God's emotional responses among his people and they are catching the vision of showing their community the way of the Spirit. Pray for him and his wife and team as they share God's light in a dark world.



Steve, Galina and Brother Yevgeny travelled to Ramonskoe Saturday to teach Anatoly's people about the biblical approach to male-female relationships. They had a great time with lots of laughs and learning's about conflict and caring. The is Christian EQ in action.

We are reproducing in Russia the programs we developed around the USA. Thank God we learned how to train lay pastors, small group leaders and lay counselors at CHPC and Upper Arlington. God graciously gave us some terrific people to practice with and on so we can offer the Russian Christians the wisdom we developed back then.

This is the primary way to bring evangelizing, healing and church growth to a hurting world.