Receiving the Good News Lessons from the Parable of the Sower
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“Since the power of prayer is in the one who hears it and not in the one who says it, our prayers do make a difference.”
– Max Lucado
The Bible is the best-selling book of all time. It is the best-selling book year after year, every year. It far outsells any other book, with a whopping 4 billion copies sold over the last 50 years. The mission with which I work, Hellenic Ministries, has distributed more than a million copies of the New Testament in modern Greek to towns and villages in rural Greece and the islands. Obviously this has cost an enormous amount of money and considerable effort and organisation. Sometimes people wonder if this was worth all the expense and effort. Why have we sometimes encountered opposition? Why was there often indifference? Why did some actually receive the Bibles with gladness whilst others rejected them? Did it make
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