Doesn't God Run The Rain?  PRO

DOESN'T GOD RUN THE RAIN?

In his book, The Case for Faith, Lee Strobel introduces us to the puzzling life of John Templeton. You’ve probably never heard his name, but Templeton was a contemporary of Billy Graham. In fact, they were both behind an evangelistic crusade in the 1940’s through Europe. A short time later John Templeton pastored a church which soon overflowed it’s 1,200 seat auditorium.

If you look up this man today, you’ll find that his faith is dramatically different from that of the 1940’s and 50’s. Templeton now describes himself as an agnostic. He jettisoned his previous faith due to doubt in God’s very existence. What prompted John Templeton to leave the Christian faith? In his own words: "It was a photograph in Life magazine. It was a picture of a black woman in Northern Africa. They were experiencing a devastating drought. And she was holding her dead baby in her arms and looking up to heaven with the most forlorn expression. I looked at it and thought. ’Is it possible to believe that there is a loving or caring Creator when all this woman needed was rain.’ How could a loving God do this to that woman? Who runs the rain? ’I don’t; you don’t. He does -...