I want you to close your eyes just for a minute. Just close your eyes. I want you to imagine yourself

that you are living on an island, all by yourself. And all you're doing is just sitting under a shade of a

coconut tree. I mean, you know nothing about the outside world. I know it's impossible, but just try.

Now you can open your eyes.

And all of a sudden, one day, a trunk washes ashore.

So you pry the trunk open.

And there you find a collection of Christian magazines and best-selling Christian books.

And so you grab all of these and you start reading.

And as you read, you begin to piece together a picture of what the Christian world looks like.

Only from the magazines and the books you're reading,

nothing else. You don't know anything about anything else, just from reading these magazines

and these, you paint a picture in your mind. There is no doubt that you're going to begin to

think that these people, these Christians, have lots of unmet needs, lots of unfulfilled needs.

Now, I'm not talking about real needs, and I'm not talking about crushing needs.

I know all about these.

As an islander, all you need is basically finding food to eat and some fresh water to drink.

But these Christians on the other side, I mean, they have water coming through a pipe in the wall.

They have variety of foods.

They are surrounded with so many things that on an island is considered to be absolute luxuries.

At that point, if that was me, the more I learn about life of these Christians,

the more I like sitting under the shade of a coconut tree.

Why would anyone be so obsessed with the so-called unmet needs

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