suffering well
In case you somehow missed the AP report over the weekend that profiled Dallas pastor Matt Chandler, you need to check it out. From the introduction:
Matt Chandler doesn’t feel anything when the radiation penetrates his brain. It could start to burn later in treatment. But it hasn’t been bad, this time lying on the slab. Not yet, anyway.
Chandler’s lanky 6-foot-5-inch frame rests on a table at Baylor University Medical Center. He wears the same kind of jeans he wears preaching to 6,000 people at The Village Church in suburban Flower Mound, where the 35-year-old pastor is a rising star of evangelical Christianity.
Another cancer patient Chandler has gotten to know spends his time in radiation imagining that he’s playing a round of golf at his favorite course. Chandler on this first Monday in January is reflecting on Colossians 1:15-23, about the pre-eminence of Christ and making peace through the blood of his cross.
Religion reporting (think Tebow, C Street House, etc.) gets knocked quite a bit these days for good reason, but this peace shines. Pray that God would use Matt and Lauren’s testimony to draw people to himself.
