From the Director

Dear Friends,

Wagner's stunning new book is alert to 'WHAT GOD'S DOING' all over the world.

But most people are not looking (Are you?) Tell me, could there be any more malignant a disease than when people stop looking at what Cod is doing and allow their lives to be distracted and disabled by a creeping hopelessness which allows them to start focusing their attention on
themselves? When our personal needs, our own fancies, our little private goals crowd out the large canvas, then anyone who stands in our way wife, husband, child, friend got to go!

However, "doing something' about the increasing family breakdowns, even delving into family interpersonal conflicts, is desperately superficial if our overall life goals and, yes, our true heartbeat is not consumed by the glory of God and His mighty acts today. HOPELESSNESS leading to self salvation is a fatal disease!

When Jesus looked out at Jerusalem and wept, it was because the vast majority of the people there "did not know the time of their Visitation." They had failed to perceive what the mighty acts of God among them looked like.

Don't you miss out! Note the special reprint in this issue. Read with openness of heart the chapter from Peter Wagner's new book On the Crest of the Wave Becoming a World Christian (See pages 21 28.) Wagner is one person who is looking constantly (like Simeon in the temple in Luke 2) for the mighty works of God leading to "the redemption of all peoples." Note the very special half price postpaid cost for the entire book (p. 28). This can be medicine for an otherwise fatal disease.

Meanwhile, "back at the ranch." we at the U. S. Center are beginning to realize that by sharing HOPE across the country, we are like a disease control center. In our Touch Ten Campaign, it is as though we are not quite midway in a massive attempt to take the temperature of America. We are attempting to invite 1,200,000 Americans to become Founders of this Center. What will happen? We'll know soon. Will the 1.2 million we are trying to touch be too busy, too unbelieving BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT LOOKING FOR ALL GOD IS DOING? If so, we sink, and perhaps so does America. The thermometer will reveal a fatal disease. Symptoms? Hopelessness and distraction. That's right. Evangelicals don't have syphilis or drug addiction. They frequently suffer from HOPELESSNESS AND FEVERISH PREOCCUPATION with themselves. Will it be fatal? For us? For America? We'll see. (More about this massive effort on page 5)