August 12, 2015
Tex Williams once told of being in an airport terminal, watching all the people around him, pondering how most were probably on the “broad way that leads to eternal destruction,” and wondering how they could be reached when many won’t listen.
WEI’s Internet program typically has 50 – 60 students waiting for a teacher. Some wait 5 or more days. These are not the ‘too busy to listen’ people; rather, they are knocking on our doors, pleading with us to take the time to teach them. Yes, they want us to teach them English, but God’s word has the power to penetrate into their hearts as they study English grammar and, for some, it becomes more important than mastering the English language.
It has been said that the thing most lacking in the church today is a sense of urgency. As Bill McDonough says, “We must seek the lost while there is yet time.” WEI’s Internet site takes away any excuse for not doing so.
One solution to handling the long list is to shut down the website so that no one can ask for a teacher. A better solution is to get more people teaching!
We have just been to the French World Workshop, Harding’s annual lectureship, and the Abundant Living Retreat at Branson, Missouri. Several have expressed an interest in teaching, and we hope their interest broadens into actual teaching.
For those of you already teaching, you know how easy the website is to operate, how it makes efficient use of your available time, and how satisfying it is to know you have the opportunity to tell others the Good News. Please make it a personal project to recruit at least one new teacher by the end of 2015. Let’s shorten waiting time to 48 hours or less. Let’s end this shame of people begging to be taught and Christians not taking the time to teach them. We have the tools we need, so let’s use them “while there is yet time.”
Matthew 9:37, 38
