Celebrating a Life on Fire: Remembering Luis Palau — Stark & Main

The red thread that is both the center of and the impetus to testify to Paul’s story is the experience of the ministerial being of Jesus. The plot and purpose of the story is to reveal the divine hypostasis encountering our own hypostasis.

To connect with him again was a gentle affirmation of this ministry, in which I try to be a person of love, putting flesh on faith. It revealed how this ministry of presence extends through time and space: on the streets in another city ten years ago, through humdrum prison correspondence, by means of the occasional long-distance phone call, and no

He matters because of what he brought and what he still brings to ordinary human beings, living their ordinary lives and coping daily with their surroundings. He promises wholeness for their lives. In sharing our weakness he gives us strength and imparts through his companionship a life that has the quality of eternity.

The Christian gospel, for Augustine, wasn’t just the answer to an intellectual question (though it was that); it was more like a shelter in a storm, a port for a wayward soul, nourishment for a prodigal who was famished, whose own heart had become, he said, “a famished land.”