It's rainy and cold. John (Mark) confronted me the other day about my risky behavior. He says that my approach is too public and may not only offend the locals but arouse great hostility even among our own people. Barney is asking me to acknowledge the risks and suggesting that we should make these decisions prayerfully, as a team. I feel that the father is blessing our current approach and I think I'm going to confront John about the short time we have to communicate our message and the resulting urgency that requires boldness to penetrate thick skulls and busy lives. His first hand testimony is critical to our ministry plan, as he was there for everything. I think he needs to be speaking more boldly himself, but he's always concerned about respecting people and so forth. Also either he's getting sick or all the charcoal fires for heat are really setting off his allergies. We need to push through this, but I probably haven't handled this as good as i could have. You know how wound up I get!
Love you lots, Sallie (I'm going by Paulus here since even our people use their Latinized or Greek names. John is going by "Markus" also.)
PS Perge is full of statues of the local deities, with many large public temples. The money invested is incredible. We're thinking of moving on to Psidian Antioch soon, but just because it's "Antioch" doesn't mean it will feel like Syrian Antioch! Check out Acts 13:13
Love you lots, Sallie (I'm going by Paulus here since even our people use their Latinized or Greek names. John is going by "Markus" also.)
PS Perge is full of statues of the local deities, with many large public temples. The money invested is incredible. We're thinking of moving on to Psidian Antioch soon, but just because it's "Antioch" doesn't mean it will feel like Syrian Antioch! Check out Acts 13:13
Just imagining what an email back then might have looked like. A few pics at https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/+SteveSpinella/albums/6115861900188233041. Modern day Antalya now hosts more than 10 million visitors a year, and there is a small cultural center here in the old city, near Hadrian's gate (as in the imperial Hadrian of the Roman empire) called the St Paul Cultural Center with a great little coffee shop just down the street from our "castle hotel"--fancy name for a small B&B in a set of very old buildings around a small courtyard. Our own meetings are considerably calmer than those described above, in case you're wondering!
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