A few years ago, Rob Haynes found himself in a doctor’s office looking at an MRI that shouldn't have belonged to a guy in his early twenties. The injury was severe. The kind of thing you see in career-ending sports collisions or high-speed wrecks. The mystery? He’d never been in an accident. He just couldn't walk without pain. He did the therapy. He did the surgery. And he only got marginal relief. It wasn't until years later, through a moment of divine intervention, that the pain finally left. He still has the scar. But he doesn’t have the suffering. As I look at the world right now, I see that same kind of "debilitating injury" everywhere. - Public discourse is shattered. - Political violence is rising. - Civil conversation feels like a lost art. It feels like we are all carrying a collective weight that we weren't designed to bear. We’re stressed, we’re anxious, and we’re looking for a surgery that might not exist. But what if the "healing of the nations" isn't just a future promise in Revelation? What if it’s something you and I are supposed to start right now? Rob wrote an article about his journey from that back injury to a new perspective on how we can actually bring the peace of Christ into a divided world. It’s not about winning an argument. It’s about something much simpler (and much harder) than that. P.S. Sometimes the best thing you can do for your soul is to "fast" from the news cycle for 24 hours. Rob Haynes shares a few more practical steps on how to do that in the article.

Posted by World Methodist Evangelism at 2025-12-26 13:14:00 UTC