April 6, 2018
We once heard Tex Williams tell of sitting in an airport, watching the crowds of people coming and going, and wondering how many were going to heaven and what could be done to help them.
Another person wrote that the thing most lacking in the church today is a sense of urgency. Do we feel urgency when we think of the millions who do not know Jesus?
The Internet has been described as the Roman Road of our day. Roman roads were built for soldiers marching to conquer the world for Rome, but early Christians walked on them to conquer the world for Christ. The Internet was not developed for the spread of the gospel, but we can use it to “go into all the world.”
Daily, dozens of people register on the WEI website where we then have the opportunity to teach them the good news about Christ. It may be the first time they have ever heard it; it may the last time they will hear it.
Yes, it is easy to become discouraged when students drop out. The apostles and other first century Christians were also undoubtedly discouraged. But THEY DIDN’T STOP!
In Matthew 13, we read of the different kinds of soil. “But some fell on good soil where it produced a crop.” We are not responsible for soil condition, but we are responsible for sowing.
During the past quarter, good soil has been found in several spots around the world. One was Len Hardaway’s student, Marie Claire Ingabire, a Rwandan refugee now living in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania.
Another was Mary McKinney’s student, Michelle, an aeronautical engineering in Nairobi, Kenya.
ISA 55:10-11. “As the rain and the snow come down from heaven and do not return to it without watering the earth and making it bud and flourish so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater, so is my word that goes out from my mouth: It will not return to me empty, but will accomplish what I desire and achieve the purpose for which I sent it.”
—Bob and Jan Towell
