Marriage and Divorce

The Heart of the Matter… I do

Having looked into the tearful eyes of parents whose children have abandoned the Faith, I have learned there are a million miles between our children “going through the motions” in reference to their spiritual lives versus our children possessing hearts that dictate their actions. In this column, I plan to share with you what I hope to instill in the hearts of my own children and those whom I love.

The Bible does not teach divorce "for any reason."

The Bible does not teach divorce “for any reason.”



It used to be uncommon and unspoken. However, today divorce has reached epidemic proportions. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the ratio of marriages to divorces is 2 to 1. While a husband and wife may vow to love one another in sickness and in health, for richer and poorer, and for better and worse, the reality is that many individuals only stick around during times of wealth, health, and happiness. Many people can remember years ago, when parents in America would often have many children. Today children oftentimes have many parents. Sadly, the concept of commitment has been lost in our “disposable” and “instant gratification” world. There is no doubt that the tentacles of divorce reach deeply inside most—if not all—church families. And those tentacles have caused many problems throughout the body of Christ. While we don’t talk about it much for fear we may offend some, this topic desperately needs to be addressed in order to stem the epidemic.

Here’s what I intend on teaching my children about divorce.
A good marriage is one of the richest blessings you will ever know. It is an institution that was formed by God (Genesis 2:22-24). While we pray that you are able to experience it one day, we want each one of you to realize that you do not have to be married or be a parent to serve God faithfully. Consider for a moment all of the Biblical examples of faithful individuals who were single or barren/childless (e.g., Paul, Dorcas, King David’s wife Michal).

Believe it or not, your mother and I have been praying for you and your future spouses (and even their parents!) since before you were born. This topic is so crucial that we believe the time to start teaching you the importance of marriage and relationships is not when you are a teenager, but rather from your toddler years on up. Aside from your decision to be a Christian and your relationship with God, there is nothing more important on this planet. This special person will either  help or hinder your journey to Heaven. Our prayer is that your mate will be a strong Christian who can help you in your spiritual journey. We hope that as you grow and mature you will select someone with which to spend your life who has similar values and priorities..
Make no mistake about it, good marriages take a great deal of work. You won’t receive a “how-to” book along with your marriage certificate. This is one reason it is so important to keep your marriage God-centered. The relationship you see daily between your mom and me did not happen overnight. We have been together through good years and bad. We have had to learn how to communicate effectively with one another, how to fight fair, how to compromise, and how to let our words be reflected in our actions. With each happy memory and each trial, our relationship has deepened and grown. However, even after being married as long as we have, we still have to invest time and energy into our marriage. That is why we try to regularly have “date night” without any children present—to reconnect, rekindle, and grow our own relationship.

Your mother and I have a rule that divorce “is not even an option.” We made this pledge to one another very early in our marriage, and it has been comforting during times of trial. The Bible is clear that God hates divorce (Malachi 2:16). Never forget that God joins you together with your mate (Matthew 19:6), and His original intention was that man and woman remain married until death (Mark 10:2-9). Study carefully Matthew 19:8, where Jesus explains that while divorces were permitted because of the hardness of their hearts, but “from the beginning it was not so.”

Keep your marriage intact and avoid divorce! Invest time and energy in one another. If you feel things are spiraling out of control talk to your parents, preacher, elders, or godly friends. (Don’t confide problems to a friend of the opposite sex, as that can often lead to danger.) Find a happily married, faithful couple with whom you can spend time and glean wisdom. Take time to find activities that both you and your spouse enjoy, and do those. Be willing to compromise. And do your best to never take your spouse for granted. The Bible is the best source for how men are to love their wives (Ephesians 5:25) and how wives are to treat their husbands (Titus 2:4-5; Ephesians 22-23). That’s a whole different topic!

In Matthew 19, Jesus outlines the only allowance for divorce and remarriage—sexual immorality (verse 9). That’s it. Divorce and remarriage is not allowed simply for irreconcilable differences or because one party is no longer happy. Many people have tried to manipulate this passage to find exceptions or make loopholes. In fact, many men with advanced degrees have desperately tried to argue that they possess a “newfound wisdom” about what this Scripture actually means. But as we have taught you from childhood, you don’t need advanced degrees to understand the important matters of the Bible. God is able to effectively communicate His plan on marriage and divorce.

Never change your views on Biblical matters simply because it has become personal. Remember, God is immutable (Malachi 3:6)—He and His Word do not change. It is usually the case that those trying to conjure up “exceptions” to Jesus’ teaching on marriage have personal stakes involved. For instance, maybe their children, other relatives, or friends have divorced for reasons other than sexual immorality, and they want to find a way for them to remarry. But the Scriptures are clear.

Many try to offer excuses to justify divorce and remarriage such as, “One party was not baptized at the point of marriage,”, or “Children are involved,” or “The original intent was not for a biblical permanent marriage.” They use mental gymnastics to find loopholes between Matthew 19 and 1 Corinthians 7:10-13. Remember, these commands were written to believers and unbelievers, thus baptism does not alter an adulterous marriage. Notice that 1 Corinthians 7:10 clearly states: “Now to the married I command, yet not I but the Lord: A wife is not to depart from her husband. But even if she does depart, let her remain unmarried or be reconciled to her husband. And a husband is not to divorce his wife.” The decision to marry is important and should not be entered into lightly, or because of temporal lust. Your mom and I agree that rather than jumping through hoops and rearranging the original intent looking for a “way out” years later, your time would be better invested in creating and building a healthy marriage that includes God.

This is why trust is so vital in a marriage. Go the extra mile and give your spouse information as to where you will be—don’t leave them wondering. Post a copy of your wedding picture or vows to your computer. Keep that golden band on your finger as a constant reminder.

On the day your mom and I said our wedding vows the man who baptized me read a poem that I want to share. It’s titled “Marriage Still Takes Three” (author unknown). I look forward to reading it at your wedding one day in the future.

I once thought marriage took
Just two to make a go,
But now I am convinced
It takes the Lord also.

And not one marriage fails
Where Christ is asked to enter,
As lovers come together
With Jesus at the center.

But marriage seldom thrives,
And homes are incomplete,
Till He is welcomed there
To help avoid defeat.

In homes where Christ is first,
It’s obvious to see,
Those unions really work,
For marriage still takes three.

Love, Dad
P.S. While you may not welcome the idea, your mom and I really like the idea of “prearranged marriages,” so we are happily accepting applications from faithful parents of children your age.

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Effective, Everyday Evangelism

Effective, Everyday Evangelism

One of the chief reasons for the very establishment and existence of the Lord’s church is evangelism; the saving of lost souls; for, God “desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth” (1st Timothy 2:4). He is “not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance” (2nd Peter 3:9). The Lord Jesus Christ Himself, the Word made flesh who came and dwelt among us said during His earthly ministry that He came “to seek and to save the lost” (Luke 19:10). And one of the last things He did before He ascended back to glory was to give His hand-picked and chosen Apostles (and us by extension of course) the precious and glorious privilege of being His divinely-designated co-workers and sharers of that great ‘co-mission’ with Him when He said, “Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age” (Matthew 28:19-20).

Timeless secrets to successful evangelism.

Timeless secrets to successful evangelism.

Indeed, as the divinely-inspired and Spirit-driven apostle Paul wrote to the first century congregation of the Lord’s church that worked and worshipped in Thessalonica: “But as we have been approved by God to be entrusted with the gospel, even so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God who tests our hearts” (1st Thessalonians 2:4). The apostle Paul again echoed those same sentiments (that the ultimate reason for the church’s very existence is for evangelistic purposes) when he wrote to the first century congregation of the Lord’s church that worked and worshiped in Ephesus. There, in Ephesians 3, verses 8-12, he let both them and the entire world know in no uncertain terms, that the “eternal purpose” and crowning touch of God’s plan from before the very beginning of time, was to establish His Son’s one, New Testament church, and that it could make known the good news of Christ to a lost and dying world. This, so that the lost in sin world might receive it, believe it, obey it, live it, and be saved by it as well, thus being added by God to that grace-cleansed, blood-bought, and heaven-bound group; for God is “not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance” (2 Peter 3:9)!

But how exactly do we most efficiently and effectively spread that grace-laden, soul-saving message of gospel truth – especially in today’s fast-paced, immediate-gratification, instant electronic communication, “that’s just your interpretation,” media-saturated, satanically-infiltrated, religious diversity-celebrated, “no such thing as God or sin” world? I believe the key to our understanding what might or might not work, ‘for better or for worse’ when it comes to efficient and effective evangelism today, begins with understanding, accepting, and internalizing Acts 8:35. As the eunuch sat reading from his quite-possibly-recently-purchased-in-Jerusalem copy of the scroll of Isaiah the prophet, the bible says in verse 35, that “Then Phillip opened his mouth, and beginning at this Scripture, preached Jesus to him.” Did you catch that? I am completely convinced that that’s the key to successful evangelism! We must follow Phillip’s phenomenally successful example of personal evangelism by taking people from WHERE THEY ARE CURRENTLY AT, to where they eternally need to be, via the vehicle of the soul-saving word of God and nothing less!

This is how the Lord Jesus, the Master Teacher, modeled effective teaching throughout the gospels. The fact is, that if we would be as truly and efficiently effective and successful as the Lord wants us to be when it comes to our evangelistic efforts, we must learn to integrate and emulate this example, so much so that it becomes second nature to us! We must learn to take people from WHERE THEY ARE CURRENTLY AT, to where they eternally need to be, via the soul-saving word of God and nothing less!

I believe that that’s the problem with far too many of our unsuccessful attempts and programs of evangelism today! They may ‘well’ be, some of the most well-intentioned, well-supported, well-attended, and/or well-funded attempts at personal and congregational outreach and evangelism that we can possibly put together, but if they don’t reach the lost, where they are, on their level, FIRST, then they’re probably not going to be, ‘well,’ very successful now are they? In fact, they will be more like a very unsuccessful ‘well’ – a deep, dark, empty and unproductive hole, into which one pours resources without much to show for their efforts. Hence: the “birth” of “Joe Clevelander” and “Chuck Churchman.”

“Joe Clevelander” is the name given to a fictitious character that was designed to give the average, local, “Joe Q. Public,” or “Joe on the street” in our little town of Cleveland, someone to truly and fully identify with. As such, he is the cumulative mouthpiece for all of those crass, critical, skeptical and/or sometimes quite unkind comments that are so often heard from the biblically ignorant and scripturally uninformed of our communities, regarding the faithful members, biblical doctrines, God-fearing practices, and God-honoring obedience of the churches of Christ (Romans 16:16). In Joe, it is all laid right out there – tangibly, truthfully, and transparently. He sincerely voices some of the most common and recurring criticisms regularly leveled at the Lord’s church today by the biblically uninformed religious zealots and denominational regulars permeating almost any community in modern-day America. Paul dealt with the same in the ancient world as well (Romans 10:2-3).

“Chuck Churchman” however, is intended to be the epitome and example of what so many of us in the Lord’s church, at least used to be. Well-studied, unflappable, and full of just good old common sense to boot, he knows his bible and how to rightly divide it (2 Timothy 2:15), as well as how to appropriately apportion, argue, reason and apply it. Automatically understanding and adjusting to the fact that he is not dealing with a decades-long, well-studied and well-informed member of the Lord’s church in his friend Joe, and subsequently integrating the absolutely essential example of Acts 8:35 into his evangelistic efforts in order to make them as successful as they can possibly be, he consciously and consistently strives not to choke with the meat of the word, one who is not yet even ready for the milk of the word, not having even entered into infancy in the family of God by being “born again” of the water and the Spirit (John 3:3-5). Instead, Chuck seeks to illustrate through common, everyday examples, the uncommon, incredible, and eternal truths of God’s instruction in a way that Joe can understand and easily accept and process. This is the same exact  thing that Jesus did, as He effectively taught the people about heavenly and eternal truths, with simple, everyday, earthly terms like “fish,” “fishermen,” “baskets,” “rocks,” “salt,” and “light” – items which every lost soul in earshot could quite easily understand, being ultimately and intimately familiar with them from their everyday lives.

These are just some of the timeless secrets to successful evangelism that so many of us have maybe either forgotten somewhere along the way, or perhaps were possibly never taught in the first place… and so, the Lord’s church and cause has continually suffered, being somewhat less successful at soul-saving than maybe we all could have been on occasion.

This is the reason for this writing; to take us back to the basics of both biblical AND automatic common sense answers and applications when confronted by those who only think they know what the bible actually says, so that we can perhaps convert them to Christ and help them to come to a better and fuller knowledge of the truth. As Christians, this is our God-given mission. This must be our primary passion. And we must bring it as close as we can to complete perfection!

But how do we patiently, lovingly, and compassionately get the often critical, confused, and confrontational lost of our world to where they need to be scripturally, and eventually then, on into Christ? How do we “confront without being confrontational?” How do we handle with care and lovingkindness, those who attack us with pure relentlessness, while neither attacking back or giving them legitimate grounds to further judge us as too judgmental? Answer: We must be, as Jesus put it, as “wise as serpents and harmless as doves” (Matthew 10:16).

For the sake of illustration, please carefully consider the following fictitious – although hopefully, very accurate to reality – conversations, as they could (and should) occur in “Anytown, U.S.A.,” on any given day, between your average “Joe” on the street, and “Chuck,” who is a faithful member of the local congregation of the church of Christ (Romans 16:16) nearest you…

 

PLEASE NOTE: The above article is a series of excerpts taken directly from the introductory chapter of Doug Dingley’s new book, entitled: “Effective, Everyday Evangelism; The Adventures Of Joe Clevelander & Chuck Churchman,” available now from James Kay Publishing of Tulsa (See: www.jameskaypublishing.com).

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¿FUE JESUS BAUTIZADO PARA DARNOS EL EJEMPLO?

¿FUE JESUS BAUTIZADO PARA DARNOS EL EJEMPLO?

La palabra inspirada de Dios es perfecta y cada una de las profecías que contiene han tenido y tendrán su cumplimiento al pie de la letra. Una de esas tantas profecías es la del profeta antiguo-testamentario Malaquías, en su capitulo numero 4, casi al cierre del la antigua ley mencionando a uno que habría de venir para preparar el camino del Señor, uno que tendría el espíritu de Elías y que haría volver el corazón del pueblo. Aproximadamente unos 400 años después de que esto se dijera aparece Juan el bautista, con todas las características que coincidían con la profecía de Malaquías. Este Juan era hijo del sacerdote Zacarías y de su mujer Elizabeth. Se crió en lugares desérticos hasta el día de su manifestación a Israel (Lc.1:80). Juan era también llamado bautista, no porque perteneciera a la Iglesia Bautista, sino porque era lo que él hacia, perfectamente bien también puede ser mencionado como Juan el Sumergidor, o el bautizador y evitamos que algunos quieran sacar provecho de la traducción para argumentar a favor de la preexistencia de la denominación llamada Iglesia bautista. Hecha la aclaración anterior las escrituras enseñan que “las multitudes salían para ser bautizadas por él” pero Juan se preocupaba por exhortarles que “hicieran frutos dignos de arrepentimiento” (Lc. 7-8). Lo principal en el ministerio de Juan el bautista no era el bautismo sino más bien el anuncio de aquel que vendría detrás de él. Cuando a Juan en una ocasión le preguntaron si era Elias el respondió que no, pero el Señor Jesus dijo que Juan era el Elias que había de venir (Mr. 9:11-13; Mal. 4:5).

Lo principal en el ministerio de Juan el bautista no era el bautismo sino más bien el anuncio de aquel que vendría detrás de él.

Lo principal en el ministerio de Juan el bautista no era el bautismo sino más bien el anuncio de aquel que vendría detrás de él.

Dicho toda esta información importante de entender como base para respuesta a la pregunta anterior, entonces: el bautismo de Jesús fue particularmente para darnos a nosotros el ejemplo? Creo que hay muchos que argumentan que sí, ese fue el propósito aunque creo que desde una argumentación lógica; si el Señor fue para ser bautizado por Juan… sin tener pecados que fueran perdonados, es un hecho que sienta un ejemplo para todas las personas de ese entonces y también hasta las personas de nuestros días que se oponen al bautismo y hasta elaboran un complejo sistema teológico errado  para dejar al bautismo fue de la ecuación del plan de salvación. Sin embargo cuando Jesús fue a Juan para ser bautizado este se opuso y la respuesta del Señor fue “deja ahora porque así conviene que cumplamos toda justicia” (Mt. 3:15). La justicia de la cual estaba hablando el Señor se encuentra conectada con la profecía de Malaquías en el capitulo 4: “Mas a vosotros los que teméis mi nombre nacerá el sol de justicia…” (Mal. 4:2). Este nacimiento de la justicia como el Sol tenía que ver con Cristo y el hecho de que  El era el postrer Adán por quién iba a entrar la vida. Romanos 5:18 lee: “ Así como por la transgresión de uno vino la condenación a todos los hombres, de la misma manera por la justicia de uno vino a todos los hombres la justificación de vida.” (énfasis H.L.M añadido). La Justicia de Dios son sus mandamientos  (Ro. 10:3; 1Ped 3:14 etc). Así que la profecía de Malaquías en el 4:2 era sobre Jesús y el nuevo pacto, la nueva ley también tenía que ver con Juan porque era, a quien  Dios había designado como profeta. El bautismo que Juan practicaba aunque era temporal, era requerido, era mandado por Dios, era justicia y la Biblia enseña con claridad que Cristo no quebrantó en nada el Antiguo Testamento ( Heh 4:15; 2Co. 5:21; 1Pe. 2:22 )El y solo El pudo cumplir a la perfección la ley, para ser ese cordero de Dios sin mancha como lo menciona Juan el bautista (Juan 1:29) siendo el  sacrificio que complacería y aplacaría la ira del Padre para traernos justifican a nosotros. Por lo tanto la razón especifica de su bautismo fue cumplir en todo sentido, todo lo que la ley de Dios mandaba y requería (Mt. 5:17).  Lucas el medico amado en su evangelio registra que el pueblo y los publicanos justificaron a Dios bautizados en el bautismo de Juan, más los fariseos y los intérpretes de la ley  desecharon los designios de Dios respecto de si mismos, no siendo bautizados por Juan. (Lc. 7:29-30). Designios de Dios en este contexto = bautismo de Juan, por esa razón fue Jesús bautizado. Para nuestros días los designios de Dios son un tanto diferente  y se llaman el Nuevo Pacto. Al momento que este pacto entra en vigencia el bautismo de Juan queda inválido, por esa razón el bautismo de Jesús no pude ser un buen ejemplo para ninguno de nosotros, al Igual que el Ladrón en la Cruz no es un ejemplo ideal de como ser salvos hoy. Si usted está en busca de ejemplos para obtener salvación, en la nueva dispensación se encontrará que el libro de Hechos está inundado de esos ejemplos, todos siendo bautizados en agua para el perdón de pecados y bajo la nueva autoridad del Señor Jesús. En Mateo 28:18-20 Jesús reclama tal autoridad y que toda esta autoridad había sido dada a El, por lo tanto el bautismo de Juan fue útil pero en este capítulo ya estaba cumpliendo su ciclo y ahora el Nuevo bautismo iba a ser llevado a cabo en el Nombre del Padre, y del Hijo y del Espíritu Santo, simbolizando la muerte, sepultura y resurrección del Señor Jesús en cada persona que lo practique (Ro. 6:3-6) ¡que difiere en gran manera al bautismo de Juan!. ¿Entonces, puede usted ahora ver porque Jesús no fue bautizado por Juan con el fin de darnos el ejemplo? Considere en Hechos 19:1-5 entendiendo que esto es registrado ya bajo el nuevo pacto, Pablo encuentra a unos discípulos de Juan que habían sido bautizados con el bautismo de Juan solamente, cuando Pablo se da cuenta que no estaban bautizados en conformidad con la autoridad de Jesús y con el mandamiento dado en Mateo 28 manda que sean bautizados en el nombre del Señor Jesús, es decir bajo la autoridad del Señor Jesús (Regrese a ese momento de autoridad: bautizándolos en el nombre del Padre, Hijo y Espíritu Santo). Si hay un ejemplo que desea seguir bajo el nuevo pacto este es uno de los mas hermosos. Al darse cuenta que NO estaban completos, no se aferraron a su convicción personal, sino que se sometieron a la autoridad de Jesús. Amigo, hermano en este asunto en particular no podemos seguir el ejemplo de Jesús al ser bautizado por Juan pero lo que sí podemos hacer es con humildad someternos a su autoridad absoluta; tal como Juan el bautista se sometió al plan de Dios, tal como estos discípulos en Hechos 19 se sometieron a la autoridad de Jesus y tal como el mismo Señor estuvo dispuesto a someterse a los designios de Dios al ser bautizado por Juan y ser obediente hasta la muerte y muerte de Cruz (Filp. 2:8-10).  ¿Que está usted dispuesto ha hacer o dejar con tal de someterse a los designios de Dios?. El Señor en el sermón del monte nos aconseja: “Más buscad primeramente el reino de Dios y su justicia y todas las demás cosas os serán añadidas.” (Mt. 6:33).

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Do Aborigines Need to Repent?

Do Aborigines Need to Repent?

The times of ignorance God overlooked, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent.

Acts 17:30

Who needs to repent?

Who needs to repent?

This verse answers the question sometimes asked, “Will God still judge the people in some third world country or in the deepest darkest jungles of Africa who have never even heard of Jesus?”  God overlooked ignorance of his existence and his will in the past…that past specifically being in the time before Paul said this two thousand years ago…but from the days of Jesus and Paul going all the way up to today and until Christ comes again God commands “all people everywhere to repent.”

This shows the great need for evangelism (Matt. 28:19-20; Mark 16:15-16).  Why did Jesus tell us to go to the entire world with the good news?  Because he wants all people everywhere to repent of their sins and turn their lives over to him.  If that was not the case, then why did he give these commands?  Not only that, but why bother to share the gospel with your next door neighbor, much less make the attempt to reach someone on the other side of the planet?  The truth is that God shows no partiality.  If he requires you and me to repent of our sins, believe in his Son, and be immersed in water for forgiveness of sins – and he does (Mark 16:16; Acts 2:38-39) – then he requires the same of every soul on this planet.

He wants us all to repent, the literal meaning of the word being “to change our minds.”  He wants us to change our minds about our sin.  If we do that, if we stop glorying in our sin but instead feel the godly sorrow he feels over our sin (2 Cor. 7:9-11), then we will turn away from our sin and start living for him.  That in turn will lead to our salvation.

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The Small Things

Have You Overlooked Something?

God’s people had just returned from Babylonian captivity. They had no temple, no priesthood, no altar, and the city of Jerusalem was in ruins. This was far different from the glorious days of the past, and it would have been so easy to be discouraged. The holy city once had a population of hundreds of thousands, but the number of those who returned from captivity was about 50,000. Jehovah knew their thoughts and said to them, “For who has despised the day of small things” (Zech. 4:10)? The intent of His words was to remind Israel that while men might despise small things, our God is the one who has always used “small things” to accomplish His purposes.

“For who has despised the day of small things” (Zech. 4:10)?

“For who has despised the day of small things” (Zech. 4:10)?

The Lord used Gideon’s small army to destroy the Midianites. The massive army of the Midianites had come against Israel with an army of at least 135,000. Gideon, having faithfully followed God’s instructions about reducing the size of his army, came with his army of 300 soldiers. It would have been so easy to “despise small things” which Gideon used. He was outnumbered four hundred and fifty to one. We must learn to not despise small things when God is involved in using them. Had Gideon’s army equaled the size of the enemy’s army and won the battle, men could have given glory to Gideon. Read the story in Judges 7, and when you get to the end, all the glory belongs to God!

The Lord used the widow’s small bottle of oil to feed her son and Elijah for months and months. The prayer of Elijah had shut the windows of heaven and brought devastation on all the people of the land. At God’s instruction, the prophet left Israel and went toward Syria where he met the widow who lived in Zarephath (1 Kings 17). She and her son were dying of starvation, but she took the last oil from her jar and made a cake for Elijah. Miraculously, the oil in the jar kept replacing itself, and the container of flour did not run out until Elijah prayed again. One might despise the small container of oil as insignificant, but God used the small jar to accomplish His work.

The Lord can use the small things you have to accomplish His purposes. You may think you have little which God can use, but you are so wrong. The widow’s two mites have taught millions about giving. The rod in Moses’ hand parted the Red Sea and brought a river of water flowing from the rocks.

Is it possible we have overlooked “small things” we have? We have added souls to the kingdom from those small business cards and booklets available in the foyer. The friendly warmth at Palm Beach Lakes comes from joyful greetings of many members. The House to House labels and the magnetic bumper stickers have lead the lost to Jesus. Think about it. Are you letting God use your “small things” for His purposes?

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