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This week we had a staff retreat. I asked Joel to bring the devotions. He read some statistics from a book he owns. According to the author the United States is the third largest non-Christian nation in the world. We are only behind China and India. The force of that statement hit me hard. I pastor a church where most are Christian. I am starting to think that my world is very sheltered from the world that is all around me. Perhaps that is why I have not seen more enter the kingdom of God. I only associate with other Christians. I am praying about this matter. I need to be a light for God in this world. I am asking God to help me get out of my comfortable surroundings and see the real world that is out there. I say this as one who enjoys the security of the familiar and yet feel God calling me to move out there into the messy world of reality. I really do have much to learn about being a minister of Jesus Christ in the third largest non-Christian nation in the world.