Wisdom of Bumpers:

JESUS LOVES YOU! BUT I’M ONE OF HIS FAVOURITES.

That maybe a great funny one – liner for you.

But I have always believed that and I am believing it NOW!

“Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not

proud. It is not rude, it is not

self-seeking, it is not

easily angered, it

keeps no record of wrongs.

Love does

not delight in evil,

but rejoices with the

truth. It always protects,

always trusts,

always hopes,

always perseveres.”

First Corinthians 13:4-7

“God in His good providence has led us unwittingly, so to speak, to make an army. We called it an army, and seeing that it was an army organised for the deliverance of mankind from sin and the power of the devil, we called it an army of deliverance; an army of salvation – The Salvation Army.”

General William Booth

“What matters supremely, therefore, is not, in the last analysis, the fact that I know God, but the larger fact which underlies it – the fact that he knows me.”

J.I. Packer

The “COFFEE NEWS” is lying on the coffee table in our lounge and when I pick it up I am reading there a quote by  Ralph Waldo Emerson:  “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”

A Bible verse is coming to my mind, namely: “It has always been my ambition to preach the GOSPEL where Christ was not known, so that I would not be building on someone else’s  foundation.”

That is the apostle Paul speaking and he says that in his letter to “all in Rome who are loved by God and called Saints.” Romans 15:20

The apostle Paul left a trail from Jerusalem to Illyricum! Why? TO PREACH THE GOSPEL.

It is also my ambition to tell others about the Lord Jesus Christ. That’s why I went to Thailand in 1966. Other missionaries were there already.

Have I left a trail in some of the villages in Thailand?

Be an enemy – a fighting enemy of the world, the flesh and the devil. Be an aggressor; carry the war into the enemy’s camp. Be a fighter, a soldier, a man or woman who has the fire of war against sin in blood and bone.

Evangeline Booth

ONCE WE HAVE A VISON OF THE CHURCH, AS PARTICIPANTS WE CAN HELP IT BECOME THE KIND OF PLACE GOD INTENDED

Philip Yancey

Church: Why Bother?