Reason # 9 why you should read Randy Alcorn’s exhaustive
(and exhilarating) Bible study entitled Happiness:
Christiana Tsai was born into a wealthy home in China. When
attending a high school run by missionaries, she came to Christ. In her
autobiography, she tells of how her Buddhist family reacted to her conversion
with extreme anger. They tore her Bible to pieces and threw it in her face. But
eventually her brother asked her about Christianity. The reason he gave was simple: "You seem much happier than you used to be."
It wasn’t messianic prophecies or dynamic preaching that opened him to the gospel -- it was his sister’s happiness.
It wasn’t messianic prophecies or dynamic preaching that opened him to the gospel -- it was his sister’s happiness.
"Good news of great joy" should produce happiness, and when it does, people notice. They’re drawn to happiness like iron filings to a magnet.” (Randy Alcorn, Happiness, page 197)
