Please know that a holistic (covering all) R&D covers all spheres of
society from government, church, family, business & commerce,
education, media, arts & entertainment, technology, economics, etc.
and that is what is meant by community development.
Don't take the R&D "cycle" word for word as Relief may not only
mean emergency relief. Relief can be the restoration of one's soul
or healing of relationship with others (refer to Christine's posting on Biblical View of Development, last month). Relief means easing the
pain. It could mean "to give life to" or "to live again" or even
"revival". Or, as Tom Wells said, ...
What good does it bring when the Church is revived and growing
but the rest around her is replete with poverty, corruption, envy,
deceit, sickness and disease, injustice, immorality, pornography,
hatred, despair, rebellion, etc.
What good does it bring when you have a huge ministry, but deep
inside, there is still so much to repent of. So much to learn of who
God is in our lives.
