As I get ready to leave this 'home from home' at IBTS and return home to Edinburgh, I recall a comment made yesterday by the Mennonite historian and missiologist, Walter Sawatsky. He remarked (something like!), 'western evangelicals tend to look backward at what they have experienced - conviction, conversion, experience etc.. Orthodox Christians tend to look forward into God's future'.
It is good to learn from this. To look forward into God's future. Thankful for the good things that have been. And remembering that the best is yet to come.
