Learning to Live in the Kingdom
by Kenneth Copeland
In the 1980s, right after the fall of communism in the Soviet Union, I saw something I’ll never forget.
I was ministering in the Ukraine at the time, in an old opera house. Gloria and I were preaching upstairs in the auditorium where the singing happens, but the basement of that opera house had a horror story for a background.
It was one ugly place.
For years, the KGB had used it as a place to do their dirty work. They had snatched so-called “enemies of the state” right out of their seats during the opera and dragged them down to the basement for interrogation. Many of them disappeared forever.
The way Gloria and I saw it, however, it was a great place to have a meeting! We were having lots of fun there preaching to people who were hearing the gospel freely proclaimed for the first time in their lives. They were responding by singing and shouting praises to God. Everyone, it seemed, was thrilled...except for the ushers who’d been posted at the doors.
