It's Tuesday, February 15, 2022.

I'm Albert Moller, and this is the briefing, a daily analysis of news and events from a Christian worldview.

What takes priority these days?

Local issues, regional issues, national issues, international issues?

Here's something for Christians to think about.

As you get to the larger arenas, certainly beyond the nation,

American Christians tend to lose interest.

That is to say, if you're talking about a local issue,

there's usually fairly intense

local interest if you're talking about regional issues lots of interests when

you're talking about your state you're talking about even the United States of

America you might have a fall fall off in certain kinds of stories, but

there is still a sense, this is important to me, I'd better pay attention, at least to some

degree, or at least find out if it turns out to be a big story.

But when it comes to international issues, many people just get absolutely perplexed.

Is this a big story or not?

We need to understand that there are two big dimensions that tend to confuse us.

One has to do with the fact that there are big stories that are only big stories because

there aren't any other big stories.

And so you have big events that take place in a small context,

and so they look huge.

And you also have giant world events that sometimes unfold slowly or come to a boil fairly slowly

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