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Hurricane Frederic blew into sound of somebody slowly moving on his eyes and said, “That’s what I tell Mobile, Alabama, on September 12, the other side of the wall. I could hardly myself every day.” 1979, leaving behind millions of felled breathe. I pulled out my gun. I realized We were 60 years and 5000 miles trees and billions of dollars’ worth of that whoever it was, they were moving removed from that incident, yet as he damage in its wake. One of those trees toward an open door in the wall just a spoke, he was right there in the middle was an ancient oak that toppled over few feet from me.” of it. The memory was as fresh and at the height of the storm and split my vivid as it had been when it happened, Great-Uncle Thompson’s house in half, perhaps, even more so. And now, from the roof down through the floor. another 35 years later, the memory The beautiful little wooden cottage was of the story remains with me. Uncle reduced to splinters. Thompson is with the Lord now, but A few days later, we worked my love, gratitude, and respect for together to clean up the yard around him remains. the ruins of his house. The day was One of the great concerns in my hot, and, after awhile, Uncle Thompson lifetime has been the tragic breakdown invited me to sit down and sip some ice between generations, and the subse- water with him. He was very fatigued, quent loss of wisdom, heritage, and and I noticed tears in his eyes. Thinking love. I thank God for what I have re- he was sad about losing his house, I said, ceived, and am determined to pass it on. “It’s going to be OK, Uncle Thompson, We have an amazing heritage in the we’ll get this place fixed up again in no Gospel and in the effect that it has had time.” His eyes were haunted and far in our lives. Are we willing to share our away. He sighed deeply. story? Are we able to hear someone “It’s not the house,” he said. “The Now the tears were rolling down else’s? If we can, the respect and way the house looks now reminded Uncle Thompson’s cheeks. “I jumped appreciation between us as people will me of something that happened to me out into the door just as a German grow, and our wisdom will increase. back in World War I, and I was just soldier jumped out from the other side. Stories have happy moments and a kid about your age. I had gotten We were literally face to face and eye sad moments; scary moments and separated from my unit, and we to eye. He was just a boy my age. He funny moments. In Christ, all of it is re- were behind German lines. Night was started drawing his weapon and so demptive. Tell someone what Jesus has falling, and I was alone and scared and I shot him dead.” Uncle Thompson done in your life, especially someone in cold. I saw a bombed out farmhouse sobbed, “And there’s not a day that a generation or culture that is different nearby and decided to take shelter goes by that I don’t think about that boy than your own. And then ... listen. in it. Just a few walls and part of the and his mama and daddy.” roof were still standing.” Suddenly, his eyes were wide I leaned in. I had never heard him and his voice desperate. He looked at STEPHEN SIMPSON is the Editor of speak of this. He continued, “It was very me and whispered, “Did I do the right One-to-One Magazine and the Director dangerous to be in there, but it was the thing?” I didn’t know what to say, so of CSM Publishing. For information best thing around, so I laid down on we were both quiet for a minute. on speaking availability, please call (251) 633-7900 or e-mail onetreesteve@ the muddy floor with my back against Then, I said, “Uncle Thompson, you bellsouth.net. You can also follow him on the wall and dozed off. I awoke to the only did what you had to do.” He dried Twitter @BamaStephen.

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like to be comfortable, don’t you? And gifts or contribution to our lives. We Spiritfamiliar people, places, and things can start to focus more on their human make me comfortable. The unfamiliar frailties more than their worth and can make me uncomfortable. But I’ve usefulness to God. learned this: if I get too familiar, I can There is another old saying: “A prophet Ilose my appreciation for people, places, and is not without honor except in his own things. There is an old saying: “familiarity country.” That saying is as old as Noah, breeds contempt.” Abraham, Joseph, Moses, and even Jesus. Sometimes we can get familiar with a It was true of most of the prophets biblical passage and fail to see its deeper recorded in the Scriptures. truth. Or, we can become overly familiar with a person and fail to appreciate their BY CHARLES SIMPSON

4 / One-TO-ONe® AUTUMN 2014 Jesus Goes Home brokenhearted, to proclaim said, “Assuredly, I say to you, no Luke tells an amazing liberty to the captives and prophet is accepted in his own story about Jesus, found in recovery of sight to the blind, country” (see Luke 4:23-24). Jesus Luke chapter 4:16-30. Jesus to set at liberty those who are went on to cite Elijah and Elisha grew up in Nazareth, which oppressed; to proclaim the as examples. was a small town with a acceptable year of the Lord” When the folks in the poor reputation. He was (Luke 4:18-19). synagogue heard this, they known there as Joseph and Then He closed the Book, gave did not marvel, nor were they Mary’s son who played with it to the attendant and sat down. merely disappointed. They were the other children in town Following His sitting down, He enraged! So much so that they and worked with His father said something amazing, “Today threw Him out of the synagogue in the carpentry shop. The this Scripture is fulfilled in and tried to push Him off a cliff HEARING people of Nazareth were your hearing.” Jesus actually at the edge of town. The Apostle familiar with Jesus (see Mark declared that He was the John later put it mildly when he 6:3). They “knew” Jesus, or fulfillment of Isaiah’s Messianic said, “He came to His own and thought they did. prophecy. That prophecy had they received Him not.” They But, He had been away been long-awaited in Israel. But wanted to “own” their prophets for years and a lot had (see John 1:11). Their actions happened. He had been were prophetic. baptized by John the Baptist, They did not kill Jesus that anointed with the Holy day; His time had not yet in the Spirit, and He had performed come. He passed on His way to miracles. Yes, they had heard other villages where indeed He about what He was now performed miracles, but not in doing, but to them, He was Nazareth. They were too familiar still just a “hometown boy.” with “Joseph’s Son.” Ironically, When Jesus came into He was still known as “Jesus town, He went to the of Nazareth.” And to this day, synagogue, where the faithful in some quarters, He is only went to worship and hear the known as a Jewish teacher. Holy Scriptures. Jesus had Rejection does not prevent gone there many times as God’s plan. In fact, it is part of He grew up. The locals were His plan, and it occurs when excited with expectation that people get too familiar with the He might do miracles there that is not what they heard. messenger and the message. as He had elsewhere. He was What they actually thought Noah, Abraham, Joseph, Moses, met with smiles and pride in was, isn’t He eloquent! What and most of the prophets could that he was “one of them”. wonderful words! all say, “Amen.” The leader of the Then they spoke the tell-tale The fact that human beings synagogue requested that words, “Is this not Joseph’s son?” can honor the dishonorable Spirit They were too familiar with while dishonoring the honorable Jesus read the Scriptures and so He stepped forward, took Jesus to see who He actually is a testimony to the human the Book, and stood to read. was: their Messiah. condition. Such was Nazareth He searched for a specific and such are many who get too chapter and verses and He Was Not Finished familiar with God. It seems arrived at Isaiah 61:1-2. Every Jesus had already diagnosed so incomprehensible that eye was on Him and every ear their familiarity and dullness; one’s own friends and family attuned to His Words. Then those two conditions go could become so enraged and He began.... together. So, He continued, “You dangerous. “The Spirit of the Lord will surely say this proverb to This problem isn’t limited to is upon Me, because He Me, ‘Physician, heal yourself! those times, is it? Even if people has anointed Me to preach Whatever we have heard done bound by familiar mindsets do the gospel to the poor; He in Capernaum, do also here in not become physically violent, has sent Me to heal the Your country.’” And then He they seek to destroy reputation

IYE Said, “ s!” / 5 Jesus said, “You will not see me again until you say, Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.”

and callings by malicious I have been blessed to speak damage to their families is words toward a servant in many different kinds of another serious topic. of God. They have their churches, and my experience These problems were also “reasons”. is that it is much easier to do true in the 1960s before God Doctor R.G. Lee was a great where people honor God’s began again to pour out preacher, one of the greatest. servants. There is often the His Spirit in a time of great After one Sunday morning “Spirit of Revelation” that is spiritual renewal. I pray that sermon, a lady said to him, released, whereas when people He will again. Churches and “I didn’t like your sermon!” fail to honor God’s servant, our nation desperately need He replied, “The devil didn’t speaking becomes a chore. another awakening. either. Classify yourself.” Why do people respond Results What To Do that way to one who is trying The wrong kind of familiarity Of course there are many to speak truth in love? brings tragic results. Israel was servants of God who are exhibit “A”. Because they often faithful and enjoying success. • They have forgotten rejected the prophets, they paid And there are many faithful history. a terrible price. They “slammed followers who hold up the • They don’t love the Truth. the door” on God’s voice. Jesus hands of their leaders. Those • They don’t love the wept over Jerusalem because models should be emulated. messenger. they had stoned the prophets My counsel to God’s servants • They see the servant after and refused to be gathered would be to be faithful in all the flesh rather than seeing unto God (see Matthew 23:37). seasons (see 2 Timothy 4:2). the truth of the Holy Spirit. Many servants of God are The Apostle Paul gave that • They are attuned to the not the victims of violence, counsel to Timothy. There are culture, not The Holy Spirit. merely discouragement. “seasons.” The Lord is with • They are looking for Discourage means “to take out us, even in the valley. In such entertainment, not God’s the heart.” They look around times, seek to grow and serve Word. and see their options are few: God and His people more • They may not truly love pander, entertain, grind it out, effectively. Another model is God, only religion. or quit. Some fall. Of course, mentioned in Revelation 12:11, there are also failures in the “Love not your life even unto Jesus said, “You will not ministry. But the culture death.” see me again until you say, contributes to discouragement Having said that to God’s ‘Blessed is He who comes in and that produces sad results. servants, what should all of us the name of the Lord’” (see In this season, thousands of as believers on their behalf? Matthew 23:39). Those who ministers are simply quitting honor God’s servants hear and seeking other means to • Be an armor bearer (see First God’s Word. support their families. The Samuel 14:13).

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October 10-12 • Be a prayer warrior. there are painful failures Bettendorf, IA • Be an encourager. and losses. When a leader Jim Tully / 563.332.9154 • Be on mission in the world… loses a member or a friend, be fruitful (see John 15:16). it is often like a surgery October 24-26 • Don’t receive accusations that takes something away. , TX and gossip. What I am saying is that we Dennis Jamison / 281.463.6600 • Pray for the pastor and desperately need to hear from other leaders’ families. God, whether from a leader, October 30- Nov. 2 • If you have an insight, tell it prophetic voice, or simply Long Branch, NJ to the leader in humility and from a friend and fellow Tony Moss / 732.870.2028 love. believer. To be able to hear from November 7-9 Experience God, we must guard against CBU Ministries Intl. I am a preacher’s kid, over-familiarity and honor Montreat, NC God’s servants who give us as are my children and my Jim Jackson / 828.669.8411 son’s child. I have been both the Truth. The Apostle Paul a leader and member. My said it this way, “Therefore, from now on, we regard no November 21-23 father pastored for 60 years, Greensburg, PA and I am drawing close to one according to the flesh” Rick Wiater / 724.941.9418 that. I know the faults of (2 Corinthians 5:16). That was leaders and especially my Nazareth’s problem and later, own. I never wanted that Israel’s problem. Let it not December 5-7 role, given what I knew about be our problem. We have an Mission Viejo, CA myself and other leaders. I opportunity to see and hear Kevin Davenport / 949.770.0291 also knew how people could one another in Christ and treat leaders. It hasn’t gotten in the Spirit. When we do, better in the recent years as miracles can happen! For more information, visit culture has become more www.csmpublishing.org secular and post-modern. or call 251.633-7900 My thoughts are not a complaint; I have been blessed beyond measure with loyal friends, armor bearers, intercessors, and supporters. Many of you reading this are among those. CHARLES SIMPSON is Editor-in-Chief of One-to-One Magazine. He ministers But I also know that extensively throughout the United States there are “seasons” and and among the nations.

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I SAID, “YES!” / 9 Familygram Interview I said, An interview with Pastor Bill Wilson,“Yes!” the leader of the modern-day Sidewalk Sunday School movement

magine being a 12-year-old boy, and your father is deceased. Your Imother is an alcoholic. One day, you are walking with her and she says, “I can’t take it any more.” She tells you to sit on a sidewalk bench and says, “I’ll be back.” So you wait for her, and wait, and wait. You wait for three days. She never returns. You are scared, hungry, and alone. Can you picture it? This is what happened to Bill Wilson. After three days, a man approached him. It could have been a bad man; it could have been a dangerous man. But, instead, it was a kind man, sent by God. The man said, “Are you OK?” Bill said, “I’m hungry.” Soon, Bill was being fed and getting the care he needed. Within days, he was on his way to church camp, where he learned about Jesus and had a life-saving encounter with God. History was changed forever. By the time Bill was 19, he was driving a church bus, and picking up kids for Sunday School. Today at 65, he still does. And, he oversees a global ministry based in , New York, that reaches more than 100,000 kids each week with the love and Good News of Jesus. That ministry, Metro World Child, provides much-needed care for at-risk children on every continent. Pastor Bill has paid a high price for his willingness to go to hard places. He has been shot in the face, had his face smashed in with a brick, been mugged and beaten, and has endured many other hardships. Watching him and hearing him speak reminds me of what it must have been like to be around the Apostle Paul. He is the author of numerous must-read books, including his autobiography, Whose Child Is This? Recently, Pastor Bill was the special guest speaker at our annual CSM Gatlinburg Leadership Conference. He shared the most gripping stories about the lives of children they are reaching and he actively engaged us in ways that we can disciple the next generation. Here are some excerpts from our conversation with him there. —Stephen Simpson, Editor

10 / One-TO-ONe® AUTUMN 2014 121: One of the things about that time because of the size of the Nobody thinks like that today. We you that grabs people’s hearts church, we had all of these folks, don’t preach it. We do not have a right away is that as you reach extraordinary missionaries, as level of expectation at that point out to kids who have been examples. And that inspired me. because it doesn’t fit in with our hurt and abandoned, you’re a It seems like we don’t hear those little culture. It doesn’t fit. person who was once hurt and kind of mission stories enough Well, we all have choices that abandoned. Can you tell us a any more. we have to make. That’s why, in little about your childhood and 121: Why not? our own way, I am trying to keep how God saved you? Have you read Foxe’s Book that spirit of old time Pentecostal BW: My mother left me in St. of Martyrs? You just don’t hear missionaries alive and that’s why Petersburg, Florida. I was born a lot of stories like that anymore, people bring me in. That’s why in , and then my parents because not many people we I do missions. That’s why I do moved to San Francisco when I know are willing to lay it down. conferences, because people want was 10. Then that marriage fell Missionaries used to put all their to know about it, they want to hear “Yes!” apart and we moved to Florida. My personal possessions in a casket it, and they are struggling with father died immediately after that. and sent it out to the mission field. it. I make it a little more doable. My sister left, and it was just me That’s how it went, because they Because I am not an extremely and my mom, but they had already knew they were going to die on talented person, I am not an been into the whole alcohol scene. the field. overly gifted person. I am just That was part of the drama. How many people do you very committed to what I do. And And one day, we were sitting know today that have that kind anybody can be committed. on the street corner and she of commitment? Not many. But, When I started out in ministry, looked at me and said, “I can’t do that’s how I was trained in ministry. it wasn’t fancy; there were no this anymore…you wait here.” And, And that’s why people look at me cameras and lights. All I had was she never came back. now like I am from another planet. my testimony. My home pastor But I still go back to that street Yet my level of commitment at one asked me if I would drive the corner every year. To me that is time would have been considered Volkswagen van to pick up kids a very critical time. It keeps it in very normal. What I do would not for Sunday School. I was 19 and perspective for me. Maybe that’s have been considered abnormal 75 I said “yes”. That was it. That’s not for everybody ... that’s just … years ago. But now I am a weirdo. what I’ve been doing now for that’s me. And I also go back so I I am unusual. Technically, what I almost 50 years. Just more of it can visit with and take care of the do should be normal Christianity, all over the world. man who found me there. but because it is not normal, I 121: What was it that 121: What happened after you am looked at as abnormal. But eventually brought you to met Jesus? that was the mindset of men and Brooklyn? I was raised in a very unique women that went in those days. BW: It was the worst place in church before there were many George Mueller, David Brainerd, the country. If you’re going to big churches in this country. I Adoniram Judson, Hudson Taylor, spend your life, spend it where it was very fortunate that it was my David Livingstone, and the list goes is going to make a difference. You home church. When that week of on and on and on, but you don’t know, anybody can go to most camp was over, I had nowhere to hear stories like that anymore. places now, but not everybody live. Literally. So they let me stay You know the Moravians? chooses to go to those kind of in a broom closet at the church There were two Moravian boys spots. where the man that had found who sold themselves as slaves to 121: And you’ve stayed in me went to; it was First Assembly this island down by Madagascar Brooklyn? of God in St. Petersburg. So they because the islanders wouldn’t let BW: I live there in a warehouse. cleaned up the closet, put a little missionaries in there. There were Right there on site. I still drive the piece of foam rubber in there, and just all slaves. So these Moravian bus about twice per month, and that was my mattress. I lived there boys said, “Okay, we will sell I am there most of the times on for three years. ourselves as slaves.” And that’s how Saturday. If I have to travel, I leave And that was in the 1960s, they got in so they could minister town on Saturday night. We have so it was a different time in this the Gospel. I mean, who does Sidewalk Sunday school six days country and I was fine, but during that? Who thinks like that today? of the week, and my day is on

I SAID, “YES!” / 11 Saturday. I do the three sessions they choose not to. But if you can fact. So many people just want to on Saturday, and then I am get them in an environment that have their best day ever, and they out. And then on Sundays, I am is so forcibly in their face, then don’t want to be confronted and somewhere for adults. they can’t un-know it, and then they don’t want to be pressed. It has really just evolved they have to answer some more 121: How did the American strongly in the last couple of years. questions. Some will get it and Church come to this place? We have the learning, earning, some won’t. But it just makes it We have allowed it. There and then the returning stages of easier then for people to really hear has been a gradual shift in our life. I am at that place now where their pastor when he ministers or culture. It has become more of a people realize that I am actually challenges them, because now spectator mentality, even with all pretty serious about the returning they’ve been close enough to the machines, and social media…I ... the giving back. It took 50 years these issues. If people are close mean it is what it is. It is much to be the “overnight success”! enough to the urgency of life, the easier to become a spectator and But I think that governments, urgency demands a response. piddle than it is to become hands denominations, churches, And that’s why most folks don’t on, to get dirty, to get out there ministries, and other groups are get around the urgency for an and mix it up. Our culture has bringing my team and I into their extended period of time, because changed. We are in the midst of situation and saying, “Look, we it demands something from you... that. We are in the midst of an need this kind of ministry in our you can’t un-see something once entitlement mentality. It is not you’ve seen it. about sacrifice. This is why I mean, I am very old we have groups school. I grew up around the old that come to New Pentecostal church. Whatever it York every year takes, pay the price. Those are the for a week. Some words I grew up on. You don’t of them come as hear that preached anymore. You boot campers. We don’t. Now, it is all about me, have an internship it’s all about a show, it’s all about program that is a making me happy. That’s NOT four-month deal. I what this is about! But that’s what think it is the only we’ve turned it into. And it’s a conscious decision that people are making: either they don’t go to church at all or when they go to church, it is for them. They city, in our country, and we want come with their flip flops you to come in and set it up and their big gulps and it’s here.” entertainment for them 121: How can you get with the lights and smoke people to see a vision for machines and all that stuff. reaching the children in their 121: How has your communities? neighborhood changed BW: I think this is why I stay since 1980 and how has so busy. I think the key is the free intern program of its kind in your ministry changed? “sight”. Are people seeing it? That’s the country. It is there, and it forces BW: It has changed in some why people come to Brooklyn. them to deal with it. respects because we have kept They spend a week with us. They By and large, American a strong presence there, which are out in it, to be exposed to it. I Christians are very complacent. is why I was invited to work with have people go with me on the They’ve allowed themselves to just President George H.W. Bush (41) international trips and they just get into this lethargic mentality. on the National Commission on drop their jaws. You know…just to And most pastors…quite honestly… America’s Urban Families. They get them to see it. are held captive, because if you saw what had happened in the A lot of times, people won’t push people too hard…you know... neighborhood, and after they did see it where they are because the pastors are held hostage by the research, our name kept coming big givers in the church. That is a up. In time, we have been featured

12 / One-TO-ONe® AUTUMN 2014 on national TV news programs complicated. Because we want doesn’t think like that....making such as Nightline and 20/20. I’m complicated. If it is complicated, decisions, knowing when to hold more interested in that than just that means we don’t have to do it. them, know when to fold them, being on Christian TV, because The truth is, anybody can do know when to walk away, and when you have the secular what I have done, but most don’t know when to run! It’s assessing community that recognizes “This want it bad enough. You want to quick. You’ve got to be quick, or is where change came from,” then travel every week for 34 years? you don’t stay there. that’s what really testifies about I don’t want to do that. But it But it is the real thing, and God, not just a bunch of insider doesn’t matter what we want to Americans are not up for that. By Christian goofy stuff, you know. do. That’s the tradeoff. That’s what and large they are not up for that As would any major city, our it takes. You work through being because it is not taught from the neighborhood has changed and sick, getting shot, going through pulpit. This kind of conversation– improved somewhat; and there all this. Nobody wants to do this, where could we have this kind of are other parts nearby that are but that’s what it takes. There is conversation? People look at us technically worse than they were always a way to do something, go and say, “What the heck? What before. And you’re not really going I don’t care what it is. They said are they talking about?” There is a to catch that unless you live there. you can’t go to Indonesia. Okay. very limited audience to have this When you are out in it every day, Alright. But now, we are reaching kind of conversation. you watch it evolve. 10,000 kids in a week. Don’t tell Either we believe what we 121: What does it take to do me I can’t do something! But too say we believe or we don’t. It is what you do? many just don’t want to do it badly amazing to me how Muslims will BW: You can do whatever you enough. Put that in your interview. die for their bogus faith and we want, but you are not going to It’s true. It’s a tradeoff. Everything is can’t even get to church on time. do high intensity, high level, high a tradeoff. They spend three years learning risk mission work without serious 121: So what do you say to how to fly a plane knowing that commitment and focus. You will parents who are grappling with they are not going to land. OK. only influence other people in whether or not to send their kids But, you can’t even get a lot direct proportion to what you are into this kind of intense mission, of Christian people to give to willing to sacrifice yourself. or seriously into harm’s way? It is missions. That’s how this works. almost like going to war. I think we must choose to see Everything is a tradeoff. How much BW: It’s the same thing...it is with our hearts; too many times, do you want to trade? Do you want like self-defense. Okay, you have we don’t. It’s all pragmatic it’s all that? OK. What do you want to to know ahead of time what you spectators, it’s all about me, and trade it for? Because you can’t have are going to do. If you are thinking it’s all translated into our culture it both ways. Can’t do it. It’s like the about what you are going to do now. But, I still believe the old lady that goes window shopping, when you get into a fight, you’ve prayer, “Break my heart with the sees the dress, wants it, goes in the already lost. You better know what things that break Your heart.” dress store, goes to the dress rack, you are going to do when the To go out effectively, it takes goes to the dress...what is the first enemy comes up. somebody willing to be poured thing she looks at? Price tag! You have to know if your kid out. I’ve seen it happen; I know And there becomes your goes somewhere and something that it can. defining moment.Y ou want it. You happens, you better have had that now don’t want it less. But the figured out. Or else you’re gonna question is, are you willing to pay flip out. You won’t make it. For more information on Pastor the price that it takes to get it? And It’s the same way with fighting Bill Wilson and Metro World that becomes the breakdown in …you’ve got to be ready. That’s Child, visit: our Christian culture in America. why I walk on the street side of the www.metroworldchild.org Because if you ask somebody if sidewalk rather than the building they want to make a difference, side of the sidewalk. And that’s just To hear Pastor Bill’s messages they will look at you face to face natural to me. From all my years from the 2014 CSM Gatlinburg and tell you “yes”. But when it in New York, I never walk next to Leadership Conference, please comes down to it and they see the a building. I always walk by the see information on page 16. price tag, they may not want to street. If someone is trying to jump pay the price. That’s what all this you, then you have about a second conversation comes down to. And or second-and-a-half to turn it is so simple, but we’ve made it and face them. A regular person

I SAID, “YES!” / 13 Marketplace Exchange 5 Go For The Gold Weak and Hungry? You’re in rebuke Him, saying, ‘God forbid good company! it, Lord! This shall never happen by Jonathan Simpson to You.’ But He turned and said to Peter, ‘Get behind Me, Satan! You “Stickability” is Gold are a stumbling block to Me; for The classic book Think and Endurance, persistence, and you are not setting your mind on Grow Rich! by Napoleon Hill overcoming are biblical themes God’s interests, but man’s.’” recounts the story of a man lived out by real people with real God defines what is “good”, named Mr. Darby who set out weaknesses, who hungered for not us, and not the devil. to dig his fortune in the days of much more than sustaining a the gold rush. Darby established lifestyle. Our work is intended to be Weakness Makes You Stronger his gold mine with the backing part of God’s unfolding plan, yet we In his recent book David and of friends and family, but after are weak and quit easily. There is Goliath, Malcolm Gladwell opens minimal discovery, he became good news though… a section of the book with this disheartened and decided to quit James 1:17 tells us that “Every quote from the Apostle Paul: and sold the mine to a junk man. good and perfect gift is from “Therefore, in order to keep The junk man consulted above, coming down from the me from becoming conceited, I with a mining engineer that Father of the heavenly lights, who was given a thorn in my flesh, a calculated gold to likely be does not change like shifting messenger of Satan, to torment three feet away. Sure enough shadows” (NIV). me. Three times I pleaded with it was. The junk man only dug But, we also read this, from the Lord to take it away from me. three feet further and made the Apostle Paul: “We rejoice But he said to me, ‘My grace is millions. In Hill’s words, “Failure in our sufferings, knowing that sufficient for you, for my power is a trickster with a keen sense of suffering produces endurance, and is made perfect in weakness.’ irony and cunning. It takes great endurance produces character, Therefore I will boast all the more delight in tripping one when and character produces hope, and gladly about my weaknesses, so success is almost within reach.” hope does not put us to shame, that Christ’s power may rest on So what happened to Mr. because God’s love has been me. That is why, for Christ’s sake, Darby after he quit the gold poured into our hearts through the I delight in weaknesses, in insults, mine? In Hill’s words: Holy Spirit Who has been given to in hardships, in persecutions, “Long afterward, Mr. Darby us” (see Romans 5:3-5). in difficulties. For when I am recouped his loss many times Nowhere is this better illustrated weak, then I am strong” (see 2 over, when he made the today than in the areas of the world Corinthians 12:7-10). discovery that DESIRE can where the Christian Church suffers Gladwell, who says that be transmuted into gold. The under persecution, places such writing the book brought him discovery came after he went as Iraq, Iran, Nigeria, China, North back to the Christian faith, into the business of selling life Korea, or Vietnam. Yet, in those illustrates over and over how insurance. Remembering that places, the Gospel is advancing. our perceived weaknesses, he lost a huge fortune, because Generally speaking, many of those limitations, and setbacks can he STOPPED three feet from Christians today have a stronger often play to our advantage. gold, Darby profited by the hunger and desire for the Lord than In fact, they may be the very experience in his chosen work, Christians in the West. tools for our innovation and by the simple method of saying People once asked, could success. It’s difficult to escape to himself, ‘I stopped three anything good come from the evidence that God permits feet from gold, but I will never Nazareth? Could they ever have some of the hardships our lives; stop because men say ‘no’ when imagined the goodness from the hardships that we sometimes I ask them to buy insurance.’ Cross? Matthew 16 says that after pray for Him to take away. From Darby became one of a Jesus told the disciples of the His vantage point, He sees the small group of fewer than fifty suffering He would endure, “Peter end of the matter and He knows men who sell more than a took Jesus aside and began to what it will produce. million dollars in life insurance

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