“WHEN YOU EDUCATE A MAN IN MIND AND NOT IN MORALS, YOU EDUCATE A MENACE TO SOCIETY.”
Theodore Roosevelt
We are educating people in mind in our schools.
Are we not educating people in morals in churches?
Write into Search: ‘New Zealanders and Religion’ and GO!
Write into Search: ‘Christianity in New Zealand’ and GO!
Mark 6:31
“Then, because so many people where coming and going that they did not even have a chance to eat, he said to them, ‘Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest.'”
“The block of granite which was an obstacle in the path of the weak, becomes a stepping stone in the path of the strong.”
It is very difficult to help people who are under stress. I am reading in an autobiography that the writer was told by his wife to rest, but he did not see it at all.
He writes:
— The more I needed a rest, the more I worked. That is a very strange thing!
— I even imagined that they could not manage without me.
— Sometimes I imagined that I was resting – but my mind was working faster than ever.
In His time the Lord put up his Stop Sign. On the stop sign was written:
YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE A TERRIBLE CAR ACCIDENT AND YOU AND YOUR WIFE WILL BE IN HOSPITAL FOR A VERY LONG TIME.
After the accident the writer received a letter from a friend:
— I have been worried about you.
— You have been under terrible stress.– The Lord says, “Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest.” Mark 6:31
— The Lord in his love has given you a break.
The Lord is opening doors to preach the Gospel. Romans 1:16,17
Sometimes the people are willing to listen for a long time.
I experienced that even today , when the Lord led me to……………..
Matthew 9:37,38 was really emphasized at the Bible College I went to. There it says:
“Then he said to his disciples, ‘the harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.'”
Ephesians 4:11
“It was he who gave some to be
— apostles, some to be
— prophets, some to be
— evangelists, and some to be
— pastors and
— teachers,………” Read on!
Timothy was an evangelist. Second Timothy 4:5
Philip was an evangelist. Acts 21:8
Something what I learned about churches while I was still in Germany comes to my mind. We say in German:
Missionsgemeinden sind bluehende Gemeinden!
The meaning of that sentence is that evangelizing churches and witnessing churches are thriving, flourishing churches.
Alban Douglas in his book “One hundred Bible Lessons” is listing four purposes of the church on page 177:
1. To worship God and glorify him on earth. Ephesians 1:4-6
2. To evangelize the world with the Gospel. Matthew 28:19,20
3. To teach and instruct Christians. Ephesians 4:11-15
4. To witness constantly. Acts 1:8
