Freedom, revolution, and forgiveness

November 1989. Scenes of joyous faces atop the Berlin Wall struck many viewers, not as the soon-forgotten images of nightly news but as timeless views of history in the making.

Underlying the individual players in the German revolution, many felt the power of intangibles—the irrepressible yearning to think, speak, and live freely, the willingness to look forward and work to move ahead rather than to dwell in the past.

A remarkable feature of this peaceful revolution was the powerful role of the East German churches. It wasn't that they "incited" revolution or advocated social action but rather that they stood strongly for what is so inherently revolutionary—the Christian gospel, or good news, of man's freedom as the creation of God. More than one person has observed that the Bible is a revolutionary book.

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