Efficiency in following Christ

A few observations about the shooting in Nickel Mine, PA:

I only saw one Amish person speak to a microphone. It was a woman who said that the man who killed the little girls was just doing what he had been taught.

The next thing I noticed was the high-powered news folks with no one to talk to...no one to try to draw out some response of misery and hopelessness, because the separation from the world practiced by the Amish is real.

I heard an "expert" on the Amish say that they are very efficient in dealing with evil and good within their own society. Now that is a very flattering statement from the secular media. The only reason I would like to have seen some Amish allow interviews is so the lost world and the secularized followers of Christ could see how efficient dependence on Jesus can be.

In our moving about yesterday, we met a couple of Amish wagons on the Texas highway outside of Beeville. I commented to Judy that they probably did not even know about the meanness that had taken place in Pennsylvania. They were involved in what God had for them to do where they are. How efficient!

Perhaps the world would be more open to hearing the message of Christ if they could see, not how we can make it look like and fit into the popular culture, but how efficiently the Christ-life is regardless of the culture around it.